Entries Categorized as 'PC(USA)'

A Church for Our Time

July 5, 2007

For those of you who may be interested, Covenant Network is putting on a conference at Montreat this summer, August 6-11, “A Church For Our Time”. From the website, the conference is described as follows:
Vibrant congregations in a diverse but united church. That’s what nearly all Presbyterians want – but how do we help make [...]

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Clinical Pastoral Education

May 29, 2007

Today I begin a 10 week program called Clinical Pastoral Education, otherwise known as CPE. One year ago, I was very excited about the experience; I had just completed a Pastoral Care course with Deborah Hunsinger, and I was looking forward to seeing how pastoral care actually worked. Last night I googled “clinical pastoral education” [...]

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Leaving Church: A Review

May 13, 2007

The first Barbara Brown Taylor book I read was The Preaching Life which I instantly fell in love with. Taylor’s way of telling stories and making the text come alive is very engaging. Taylor serves as an Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality here at Columbia, so I was looking forward to hearing her preach while [...]

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Third Annual Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

April 19, 2007

Last weekend was the Third Annual Ultimate Frisbee Tournament for Presbyterian Seminaries. Over one hundred seminarians showed up from Union-PSCE (Richmond), Union-PSCE (Charlotte), Princeton Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Columbia Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary. Each year it continues to become a bigger and bigger event. This is the third year Union-PSCE (Richmond) has [...]

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Presbyterian Outlook article on Mainline Emergent/s Conference

February 9, 2007

There is an article on the Presbyterian Outlook website about the Mainline Emergent/s Conference held at Columbia Theological Seminary. For those who don’t want to register on the Outlook site to get the full article, I’ve uploaded it here as a pdf.
Both pomomusings and presbymergent got plugs in the article, which is great. We are [...]

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Mainline Emergent/s Seminar

February 1, 2007

As you can see from the photo above, today Karen Sloan and I had our seminar, entitled “Practice & Presbyterianism: Emergence as Reformation.” We began the seminar with a word-association activity: we asked everyone to think about what words or phrases came to mind when they thought of 1) Presbyterians, 2) Emergent and 3) Presbyterian [...]

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Rethinking the Use of Creeds in Worship

January 28, 2007

Doug Pagitt recently posted a video on his site in which he ranted about Creeds. Below is a portion from his rant (but you should go listen to it for yourself):
Creeds are not summations of Christianity - they’re not summations of faith. Creeds are articulations of particular understandings inside of a certain contextual context. There [...]

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Presbymergent.org

January 27, 2007

I helped create a site today that is going to potentially (if people get involved) serve as the online community of those who are Presbyterian and Emergent.
Presbymergent.org
This is from the about page:
Presbymergent is the online community for those who live in both the Presbyterian and Emergent/emerging church worlds and want to try and find a [...]

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Loyal Radicals

January 25, 2007

During the fall of ‘05 I helped to organize the Emerging Church/Theological Education Caucus (yah, I know…quite the name) at Princeton Theological Seminary. We were able to have my friend Jonny Baker come over and hang out with us. During one of his talks, he mentioned the phrase “loyal radical” that his friend Bob Hopkins [...]

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Can Presbyterians be Co-Creators?

November 8, 2006

I love watching Presbyterians get antsy. Especially those who are “really” Presbyterians. You know, the hard-core Presbyterians. They were baptized, confirmed, went to Triennium, probably served on a local Youth Council, probably even went to General Assembly as a YAD (Youth Advisory Delegate). And now they’re in seminary, passing right through the ordination process, passed [...]

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