Emerging Church: Reformation or Anti-Reformation?

A friend of mine and I were discussing the emerging church recently, and after I told him that I didn’t think the EC had an ecclesiology or philosophy underpinning it. Thus, one of my objections to the EC is that it seems like the main philosophy is, “Let’s try it and see what happens!” Or [...]

Don’t hit the same rock twice

Earlier this week I was conversing via aim with a fellow blogger (who shall remain unnamed). This person was telling me how at their church, they have a kind of EC/IC blend. The EC part was defined by the pillows, private worship, candles and so forth. Again, an example where EC is defined by the [...]

How to Care for your “Emerging Church”

Bear with me folks… Here comes a gardening metaphor and a rant… But then again, all the discussion of organic churches and so forth kind of tend to beg for this sort of metaphor (and, I think, the rant as well). So far, as I’ve explored emergent material it seems that if one were to [...]

Mochachino Theology

This is cool… emergingchurch.info used a blog post of mine as a web article. What’s cool is the title they came up with “Mochachino Theology.” Given the rather extended Starbucks metaphor woven throughout, I was wishing I had thought of the title. Very creative. Props to Adrian over there.

Knowledge without wisdom

Thanks to Daniel’s links earlier, I read this post from Jen Lemen on what’s killing emergent. One of the things she said jumped out at me: “I think information is great. i can suck in content with the best of them. but lots of knowledge can also make you think you are smarter than you [...]

Emerging Women Leaders

I may be a bit slow, but I just discovered the Emerging Women Leaders webpage. I had visited the breakfast at the Emergant Convention in San Diego back in March, but I somehow missed there was a webpage until now. Ah well. There is, and you all should go check it out. Here is an [...]

Paradox trip…

Last night Scott and I drove out to Paradox, clear out in Barstow. Actually, the drive wasn’t bad at all. My new wheels are totally cool and I love the fact that the speed limit on the 15 is 70, so I wasn’t breaking the law as badly as usual . Chris (desertpastor) posted some [...]

Paradox

Well, it’s the weekend again, and I discovered that I’ve been sorely neglecting my blog. Thank goodness for syndication, that way you all will know that I’m still alive and that I’m posting again! Tomorrow (Sunday the 23rd) I’m off to Paradox, because Benjy, emailed me a while back and asked me to come hang [...]

Postmodern Theology

All right, time for the next installment in this "what is emerging church?" saga. What is postmodern theology? Well, at first glance, the idea of a "postmodern" theology may seem counter-intuitive since theology is what we believe about God, and what we believe about God is based on a canon that has been closed since [...]

Deconstruction of liturgy

Wow, this is fun! I’ve been lacking the ability to focus all my thoughts down into manageable pieces, and here a couple of questions has giving me plenty of writing material! Yay! Okay, so it appears our next task as an online community is to explain exactly what we mean by deconstruction of the liturgy. [...]