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First Two presbymergent Logos

We have received our first two entries into the Official presbymergent Logo Contest. Please continue to submit ideas and pass this information around to any folks you know with design skills. Thanks! And if you want some ideas for the logo - feel free to read through the comments on this past post about the [...]

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Announcing the Official presbymergent Logo Contest

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 [...]

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The Spiritual Book Club

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 [...]

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Episode 02: Vera White, Pittsburgh Presbytery

Presbyteries & presbymergent
Though on the longer side, this episode is rich with hope for possibilities of our church structures, and ourselves, flourishing in the midst of chaos.
Between recording the opening context essay of the episode and now posting this episode (…please pray for me that future episodes take less time to complete…) the post [...]

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Presbymergent Bloggers and Friends of presbymergent

Hello friends. We are doing some cleaning up of our blogrolls on the presbymergent site over the next few days, and if your blog is listed, or your church/worship service is listed, please get in touch with us. Currently, we have three lists: Presbymergent Bloggers, Presbymergent Churches and Presbymergent Worship Gatherings. We are going to [...]

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Podcast Episode 01: BJ Woodworth, The Open Door

Announcing the presbymergent podcast!
As a one-year of presbymergent.org anniversary gift, I am overjoyed to share the launch of this new resource for the Church. Details on how to subscribe to the podcast feed can be found on the brand new Podcast page. Below is more of the story behind the creation of this [...]

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G-3.0401 Called to Openness

Awhile ago while looking through the Presbyterian Church (USA) Book of Order (BOO), I ran across this section:
G-3.0401 Called to Openness: The Church is called

to a new openness to the presence of God in the Church and in the world, to more fundamental obedience, and to a more joyous celebration in worship and work;
to a [...]

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Greetings to y’all and a request…

Hey there! I just registered on Presbymergent and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sarah and I am an MDIV at Harvard Divinity School. I am under care with San Jose Presbytery and am about to go up for candidacy. Anyways, I found presbymergent after my experiences within the larger [...]

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Presbymergent Retrospective, 2007

2007 was Presbymergent’s best year ever! Well…actually, 2007 has been our only year (so far), but it was still a great year. Here are some of the milestones and highlights:

Welcome to Presbymergent.org! With this short post, a community is born. The brainchild of Adam Walker Cleaveland and Karen Sloan, Presbymergent aimed from the [...]

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120 Year Old Congregation Becomes Emergent!

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 [...]

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