PC(USA) Has $20,000 in Funding for Emergent Churches
August 27, 2007
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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One Less Hoop to Jump Through
August 25, 2007
Today marked one less hoop to jump through, hopefully. The Church Polity Ordination Exam was today, and it was the last of 4 (Church Polity, Theology, Worship & Sacraments, and Exegesis) ordination exams PC(USA)ers have to take - and pass - in order to get ordained. I say hopefully because I thought this exam was [...]
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Back in Princeton
August 24, 2007
Sarah and I are now back in Princeton. We accumulated over 6,000 miles on our Yaris, listened to some really amazing books on CD, including Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat” and the entire “His Dark Materials” Trilogy by Philip Pullman. 9am Saturday morning we’ll be sitting in the basement of the Mackay Campus Center [...]
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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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Emerging Role of the Pastor
March 21, 2007
A few weeks ago at the Atlanta Emergent Cohort, we discussed the changing role of the pastor, and what a possible “emerging role” of a pastor would be. We had folks from different denominational backgrounds and that added to some of the richness of the discussion. I’ll admit that I went into the conversation hoping [...]
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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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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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Revisiting the Essential Tenets and Reformed Distinctives
November 21, 2005
If you’re Presbyterian, you may have heard about San Diego Presbytery’s “Essential Tenets and Reformed Distinctives” document. You can download it here. I blogged about it over a year and a half ago here. It’s something that is coming up more and more, and it’s interesting to see other Presbyteries pick up this document, and [...]
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