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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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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The Postmodern Parish
December 28, 2005
The Postmodern Parish: I ran across this book about a year and a half ago. Author Jim Kitchens used to pastor Davis Community Church and is currently the pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN. Kitchens book is good, I think, for anyone interested in the church emerging discussion, but may not have the [...]
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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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Emergent Convention: The Postmodern Parish
May 22, 2004
Last fall I ran across a book called “The Postmodern Parish” by Jim Kitchens, a PC(USA) pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville. I arranged to get together for lunch with him, and my friend Kevin and I, and Jim and Junie (a Vanderbilt Divinity School seminary intern working at Jim’s church) broke bread together [...]
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