loyal radicals…
PC(USA)Presbymergent friends - well, it was only a matter of time before two things happened:
Bruce Reyes-Chow, our esteemed Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (USA) started up another meme, called Presbymeme II.
Neal Locke, a member of our esteemed Coordinating Group here at Presbymergent, “tagged” literally EVERYONE at Presbymergent to respond to the meme.
Now, I’m not sure [...]
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 [...]
Two days ago, I opened an envelope from Louisville to find a copy of a new occasional paper from the Office of Theology and Worship: William Weston’s Rebuilding the Presbyterian Establishment. I cringed. Rebuilding the Presbyterian Establishment? So I began to read, and my fears were confirmed. “It is time to rebuild the church’s Establishment,” [...]
Shawn Coons raises an important question or two about membership and mission that seemed to dovetail with a couple of emails that have gone around my own session.
This past Sunday I had the pleasure and challenge of filling in for the pastor of my church to preach and lead worship (putting that M.Div. to work). [...]
Several months ago, we tossed out a post asking our presbymergent community to come up with some questions for the candidates for Moderator of the General Assembly. Here are your questions, in poll-style — vote for your favorites, and we’ll present the top five to the candidates.
Hint: You can stuff the ballot box [...]
Rhett Smith has an excellent post on his blog today entitled What Is the Millennial Generation About? He summarizes some key points of an interview with the authors of a recent book on the Millennial Generation, and then offers some analysis of how these trends might pertain to the PC(USA). He makes some good [...]
Once again, I’ll dip into the presbymergent brain trust with a question about the changing dynamics within my own congregation.
I love my “wee kirk,” which when I arrived back in 2003 was a group of about 17 stalwarts, the last folks standing in a suburban congregation that began it’s archetypal mainline deathspiral back in the [...]
One of presbymergent’s Editors, Jim Bonewald (of The Church Geek fame), has started a thread on our Facebook group page discussing presbymergent’s presence at this year’s General Assembly in San Jose. You can follow along here (it will ask you to login to Facebook, so if you haven’t had a chance to sign up for [...]
The church I’m currently interning with, The Open Door, is entering into a new phase in its life. In the coming weeks BJ will be leading us through a series considering what it means to be “covenant partners” with God, with one another, and with the world around us. Another side of that [...]
Our church, Westminster Presbyterian in Lakewood, NY, hosted Phyllis Tickle this past weekend. And we had another surprise and a wonderful guest, Karen Sloan joining us for the weekend. What energy!!! What inspiration!!!
I have decided to write this post in response to last weekend to share some reflections as well as to encourage [...]
