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Author Archive for Troy Bronsink

Troy Bronsink is an artist and a pastor seeking the way of Jesus. He and his wife, Kelley, and daughter, Eve, live in the Capitol View neighborhood of southwest Atlanta, where they have worked in community organizing, public education, and experiments of church planting. In integrating these Troy has become a contributor in the emerging church conversation. He is a singer-songwriter with 15 years of experience as varied as senior pastorate, youth ministry, music director, serving in both the mainline and para-church fields. Troy is a Presbyterian minister, a member of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta’s Emerging Church Committee, a member of the Emergent Village Coordinating group and contributing author to the 2007 Baker Emersion release, “An Emergent Manifesto of Hope.” Troy works with churches and campus groups as a coach, worship consultant, and event speaker.

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Of Dying Breeds and Swelling Hopes: A Mainline Emergent in the Reformed Tradition

In the first part of this article (found in Fuller Seminary’s “Theology, News and Notes” Fall 2008 issue) I explore the similarities between the Emergent Presbyterians and the character Harold Crick, played by Will Farrell in the movie Stranger than Fiction. Crick overhears his narrator describing his “imminent death” and reacts with dismay screaming [...]

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Troy weighs in on Worship 2.0 discussion

This last post has started a great discussion! Thanks for “outing me”, Clay. I think that worship styles and ecclessiology ebb and flow from one another. And so it is interesting to see the conversations in worship look to define the church’s mission or seek to be defined by that mission. I [...]

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Better late than…

Sorry to be so late. I hesitated leaning into this site for many reasons:
The main one being time sensitivity. While serving as a validated minister inthe PC(USA) for a couple years since seminary, I recently joined my practices with a historied community of Presbyterians 30 minutes north of my neighborhood as their [...]

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