EC05: Recap

May 27, 2005

It was good to be at the Emergent Convention. As Jake and I made the 13+ drive from Princeton to Nashville, he asked me what I was hoping to get out of this week. For me, I was primarily looking forward to the relational-aspect of the convention. I was looking forward to hearing some people [...]

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EC05: Seminar: New Theology for a New World (Pagitt)

May 20, 2005

Doug Pagitt:
Reasons for New Ways of Understanding/Explaining Theology
*our story doesn’t fit
*the ‘rules’ have changed - we know differently than we didn’t before
*this is the work of theological reflection
Theology is inherently temporary…
The story of God is also changing…it could be that the nature of realities is that things are changing.
The very essence of how we know [...]

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EC05: Forum :: Blogger Lunch

May 20, 2005

Will Samson pulled together a phenomenal blogger lunch at a wonderful Italian restaurant in downtown Nashville. We had 37 bloggers this year, compared to the 15 from last year. Thanks to Will, we had lunch paid for by the American Bible Society (and here is one place Will is blogging for the American Bible Society) [...]

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EC05: Convention Begins

May 18, 2005

And the convention begins. With Theofragen and The Shiverian deep in a heated conversation about emergent church planting, Hans Frei and the semantics of “emergent” and “the emerging church.” We had a great dinner tonight with my bros from last year Cory and Shane, as well as another Whitworth-grad, Andrew Seeley (who really deserves some [...]

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Emergent Convention: God is Always Found in the Most God-Forsaken Places

May 26, 2004

I know I said I was done, but I listened to Alan Roxburgh’s seminar, “God is Always Found in the Most God-Forsaken Places” today on CD. It was absolutely amazing - the last 6 minutes was worth the $8 it cost. I have just typed out some of his words - beautiful beautiful stuff.
[Alan Roxburgh's [...]

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Emergent Convention Final Reflections: High(low)lights

May 25, 2004

Just thought I’d sum up the Emergent Convention in my last post about it with the proverbial “highs” & “lows” (since this is what Brian made us do in our last cohort). Thanks to all who have read these Emergent Convention posts - this will be the last.
Highs:

Bloggers: It really was a beautiful thing. People [...]

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Emergent Convention Reflections: Thoughts for ‘05

May 23, 2004

Unfortunately, I had to leave the general session early to get a head start to the airport, so I missed Doug Pagitt talking about how they were going to do some things differently next year. Does anyone have any suggestions for possible changes for Emergent ‘05? Here are just a few things I thought:

Less seminars/stuff: [...]

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Emergent Convention Reflections: The Blog

May 23, 2004

The blog. People often make fun of my blog, how much I get into it, etc. Which is fine – it is quite humorous when you begin to live life through the lens of the blog. But this week has shown me just how important the blog (and things like it) are to our times, [...]

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Emergent Convention Reflections: General Sessions & Emerging Worship(?)

May 23, 2004

First, let me say that I really enjoy the music of the David Crowder Band (DCB). When I recorded a CD a few weeks ago, I played some of his songs. But, the general consensus (at least from the people I was talking with this past week) is that the Emergent Convention would do better [...]

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Emergent Convention: Taking off on an Aeroplane

May 23, 2004

[had to stay away from the “Leavin’ on a Jetplane” typical blog title]
Weird feeling to just walk out of the Renaissance today, hop in a mini-van taxi and head home to Idaho. Such a weird thing to be around such great people, great thinkers, theologically-inspiring days…and now back to Idaho. It doesn’t help the weirdness [...]

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