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ResourcesThis is just a reminder that there are only 4 days left in the presbymergent logo contest. We will be accepting submissions until midnight on May 2nd. If you were thinking of designing a logo, or if you know someone who is working on one, please encourage them to get their submissions in by the [...]
Adam Walker Cleaveland posted a few months ago about the desire for presbymergent to work towards having a logo. Well, folks - this is it. We at presbymergent would like to announce the beginning of the Official presbymergent Logo Contest.
We are hoping that your submission for the logo contest would take into consideration our commitment [...]
This message was sent to presbymergent from PCUSA minister Susan Baller-Shepard:
I am a Presbyterian minister, social worker, and writer, and I’ve facilitated www.spiritualbookclub.com for nearly ten years now. I am a parish associate pastor at First Pres-Normal, IL. We also have a local spirituality book club group that meets in Barnes & Noble once a [...]
You may notice in the comments section now on this site, there are little places where a silhouette placeholder graphic exists. However, if you check out my author archive here, you’ll see there is a little image that I use as my avatar. In case you’d like to add a little more personalization to your [...]
A question for the Presbymergent cognoscienti:
How and to what extent does your congregation utilize new media as an implement for evangelism?
I know that we blog, and that we’re open to integrating media into new forms of worship. This is good. But that we have connectivity within our respective fellowships doesn’t speak to how [...]
It was great meeting so many incredible folks last weekend at the Presbymergent event in Pittsburgh. Special thanks to all of you who participated in the discussion on race in the Saturday afternoon seminar. Hopefully, it will be the beginning of a continuing conversation for the emerging church and for the PC(USA).
As I was throwing [...]
Saturday at a Leadership Summit sponsored by some churches in our Presbytery that included about 90 elders and pastors I did two presentations on the emergent church. I had about 20 -25 people in each 1-1/2 hour long presentation.
It went quite well, and I heard a lot of positive feedback. Many folks already had some [...]
Two new documents have been added to the Resources page, under “Teaching Resources.” They include a PowerPoint file created by Adam Walker Cleaveland and a handout created by Tom Robinson. Adam used the handout (which is based on some chapters from the Gibbs/Bolger book, Emerging Churches, for a Youth & Young Adult Ministry course at [...]
For the past severeal months I have been working on a schematic description of Phyllis Tickle’s the New Christian Rose. I have heard many people mention the Rose in various contexts but few have seen her build it. I had the privilege of seeing her do it at a conference. I have decided [...]
Sherry Britton in the NCD department in Louisville has asked us to share the following exciting news with all our presbymergent friends:
The director of Evangelism has just found $20,000 in his budget designated for emergent churches. He would like to receive proposals for the use of the funds.
Following are some additional details:
Funding is open to [...]
