Emergent Convention: Bloggers & Fun Evening
May 21, 2004
Had a wonderful evening tonight. Bob Carlton (The Corner) organized a wonderful dinner tonight with fellow bloggers (so we had Lilly & Rob Lewin, Jonny Baker, Gareth, Michael Toy, DJ Chuang, Bob, Theoblogian, and many others who I’m forgetting right now because it’s 1.45am. We had a wonderful BBQ dinner and good conversation. Jonny, Gareth, [...]
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Emergent Convention: General Session #4
May 20, 2004
The Road to Shema: Lauren Winner
The full Shema comprises 3 paragraphs from Scripture: (Deut 6, Deut 11, Num 15) - the heart of the Jewish prayer life. When people talk about “The Shema”: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is One.” The Mishnah records a version of this prayer being said 2x/day [...]
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Emergent Convention: General Session #3: Prelude
May 20, 2004
Jeff Johnson led us in a time of contemplative singing: keyboard, violin and flute. We are supposed to be silently praying for 3 min. I think I’ll do that.
Jesus, remember me, when you come into your Kingdom. These were the words we prayed. Jesus, remember me, when you come into your Kingdom. Jesus has come [...]
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Emergent Convention: Ordination Musings
May 20, 2004
Good stuff is happening with Emergent. Good theology is being done & will be done. With Tony Jones being at Princeton and some of the things that are going to be happening there in the next few years, things are exciting. I resonate (yah, I’ll go ahead and use that word) with what is happening [...]
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Emergent Convention: Lunch with the Shiverian
May 20, 2004
Had a great lunch with Mark. He just graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary and is actually blogging about the convention as well at The Shiverian - go and check it out. We are on the same wavelengths about a number of issues and it was good to talk about emergent, women in ministry and to [...]
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Emergent Convention: General Session #2
May 20, 2004
Phyllis Tickle (Mainliners), Jack Caputo (Roman Catholic tradition) & Robert Webber (Evangelical): hosted by Brian McLaren
Brian: we’re going to be talking about how to get beyond some of the modern polarities of liberal/conservative categories. Here are the three questions each panel member was supposed to address.
Q. What does your tradition need to leave behind in [...]
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Emergent Convention: McLaren Cohort
May 20, 2004
Also spent this evening with McLaren and 15 others in a Cohort group. Talked more about the idea of the metanarrative, talked about theological differences in churches, how churches decide they are going to be unified (will they be unified by love? doctrinal statements? mission? ethics?), and spiritual disciplines. It’s always interesting to see these [...]
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Emergent Convention: alt.worship with Jonny Baker
May 19, 2004
Wonderful that both Jonny & Gareth finally made it to Nashville, after getting held up in Chicago for a night, even though they were enjoying free wifi in their room. It was really great getting to know them both, and I’m looking forward to spending more time with them this week. Great to see some [...]
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Emergent Convention: Pluralism Revisited
May 19, 2004
As someone from the seminar stated, in typical McLaren fashion, most of us left excited, challenged and utterly confused - which is what Brian likes. Pluralism - how in the world could any of us be considered pluralists? Are we? Well, according to the definition of pluralism - we are (and should be) pluralists in [...]
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Emergent Convention: General Session #1
May 19, 2004
Worshipped with David Crowder.
Jammed with Fred Lynch as he rapped the Gospel of John. Very cool project called Epic.
Now, Jim Wallis is sharing. I need to try to meet him, because my mom is sure he knew my uncle Keith Gingrich well, who was heavily involved with peace and justice issues in Washington D.C. with [...]
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: 
