Last night I met with the Presbytery of San Francisco, and was finally officially accepted as a Candidate in the ordination process. For those who have followed along – this is, of course, the second time I’ve officially been accepted as a Candidate. Last night was a wonderful experience to be with the Presbytery, to [...]
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This is Part 3 of “A Brief History of Presbymergent.” You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Where does Presbymergent go now? But I don’t think that means people have stopped rethinking what it means to be church in the PC(USA) this past year. I continue to have folks contact me and [...]
This is Part 2 of “A Brief History of Presbymergent.” You can find Part 1 here and Part 3 here. Presbymergent’s Momentum Slows And then…well, I can’t really say. Ryan Kemp-Pappan walked away and went to the Disciples of Christ. Karen Sloan became Prior at Formation House. And me…? Well, I was having some ordination [...]
This is Part 1 of “A Brief History of Presbymergent.” You can find Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Earlier this week Mike Clawson posted a 50-page final paper he wrote for his studies at Austin Theological Seminary entitled “Loyal Radicals: The Intersection of Mainline Denominations and Emerging Christianity” (you can download a PDF [...]
Many of you know that while I had planned on being ordained in December of ’08 – things didn’t really pan out how I thought they would. It’s been over a year now since it all began – and while I haven’t wanted to rush into a decision concerning next steps, it became more and [...]
This past Tuesday night, at 660th meeting of the Presbytery of San Francisco, the Presbytery narrowly approved Lisa Larges for ordination. Larges is a lesbian who has sought ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for over 20 years. Presbytery Moderator Chuck Fry wrote the following on the Presbytery’s website: The Presbytery in its 660th meeting [...]
I know many of you have been following my ordination process, which was brought to a halt almost a year ago because I invited one of my best friends, Tony, to be the ordination preacher. There were some people who had an issue with Tony being gay and the problems began. It’s been an interesting year [...]
I’ve been spending this week with a group of young adults discerning calls to the ministry. They are Undergraduate Fellows, Congregational Fellows and Ministry Fellows with The Fund for Theological Education. Both Sarah and I were Ministry Fellows back in 2004-2005, and we actually met at the Summer Conference. I’ve been able to stay connected [...]
Troy Bronsink and I led a workshop called “Emerging Worship Environments” at the Alt7 Conference at Montreat this week. If you’re interested in downloading a PDF version of our presentation, you can do so here. Also, here are some additional resources that you may find beneficial if you’re interested in emerging culture and worship environments.
Since graduating seminary, I’ve had the chance to preach ten times. Last summer when Sarah and I led The Macrina Community, I would first write out my sermons in manuscript format. Then I would make an outline based off of the manuscript, and preach from the outline. It was an extremely small, intimate and casual [...]
