Entries Categorized as 'Presbymergent'

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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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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More Emergent Connections…

March 8, 2005

Was fortunate to be able to hang out with Troy Bronsink this morning at The Flying Biscuit Cafe (which apparently was started by Emily Saliers and other women) in Atlanta. Troy is a CTS grad and we found out that we were both living in Spokane, WA during the same time, and had many connections [...]

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Nanette Sawyer from Wicker Park Grace

March 3, 2005

Last summer I had the chance to meet Nanette Sawyer, who is doing some very cool ministry in the Wicker Park area of Chicago through her community, Wicker Park Grace. I’m encouraged by her openness to many things: the spiritual journey, seekers, emergent and a variety of forms of spirituality. Nanette has a beautiful vision [...]

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