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At its heart, the season of Advent is a four-week declaration that the God we follow has decided to be Emmanuel, God-with-us. This is not particular to Advent, as much of Scripture’s story tells us this same important truth. God was with Abraham and Sarah as they embarked into unfamiliar terrain toward a new promised [...]
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During my last semester of seminary, I took a class called Pastor as Person, and one of the books we read was “Sex in the Parish” by Lebacqz & Barton. It really should be on everyone’s reading list if they are planning on going into parish ministry. It’s an old book – came out in [...]
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Although, apparently Josh Case thinks he is the National Coordinator. Well, at least I have Landon’s support – he’s going to become the head of our Transition Team. Join the conversation.
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If you’re looking for something to do this summer, I think the Church Basement Roadshow is going to be one of those things you’re going to want to make sure you check out. Presbymergent is helping to put on the one in San Jose during the PC(USA) General Assembly, and that’s the one I’ll be [...]
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UPDATE: Book giveaway. I have 4 copies of “The New Christians” to send to the first four people who email me with a picture of Tony’s footwear of choice while he’s on the road.
Prior to reading The New Christians, I have always told everyone that Pete Rollins’s How (Not) to Speak of God has been [...]
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I’m a little late with this, but some of you may not have watched the segment on NBC Nightly News featuring the emerging church movement (more detailed interview with the pastor can be found here). Tom Brokaw (my oh my is he looking old!) did the segment, and after watching it, I have some thoughts [...]
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I have been looking forward to reading Kester Brewin’s Signs of Emergence for a long time. The subtitle alone made me excited to see what he had to say: “A Vision for a Church that is Organic / Networked / Decentralized / Bottom-up / Communal / Flexible / Always Evolving.” When I look at my [...]
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Many of you know that I will be presenting the following workshop at the Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church Conference in a week (it’s not too late to register).
Presbymergent Polity 101: Worship, Sacraments and (Dis)Order
Many view the Book of Order as a rigid, rule-focused guide for saying more about what one “can’t” do [...]
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I’d like to encourage you to attend the 2007 Presbymergent Conference, “Always Reforming: Emergence in the Presbyterian Church.”
It’s not too late to sign up for the event. It’s going to be held at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary on October 12-13. I’m going to be there presenting a workshop and we’ll hear from [...]
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I met Joe Myers a few years ago at an Emergent event and have enjoyed getting to know him since then, as we’ve run into each other a couple times and as I’ve had the chance to read both of his great books, The Search to Belong (short review here) and his newest book, Organic [...]
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Sherry Britton in the New Church Development office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Louisville has asked some folks to share the following exciting news, especially for our presbymergent friends:
The director of Evangelism has just found $20,000 in his budget designated for emergent churches. He would like to receive proposals for the use of the [...]
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