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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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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Rethinking the Use of Creeds in Worship
January 28, 2007
Doug Pagitt recently posted a video on his site in which he ranted about Creeds. Below is a portion from his rant (but you should go listen to it for yourself):
Creeds are not summations of Christianity - they’re not summations of faith. Creeds are articulations of particular understandings inside of a certain contextual context. There [...]
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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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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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Fencing in the table?
November 18, 2005
From the PC(USA) Book of Order, the Directory for Worship section on Baptism, W-2.4011:
“Who may receive: The invitation to the Lord’s Supper is extended to all who have been baptized, remembering that access to the Table is not a right conferred upon the worthy, but a privilege given to the undeserving who come in faith, [...]
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Letter from Presbyterians in Dialogue for Peace
July 22, 2005
A friend of mine gave me this link a week or two ago. It is to a blog entry written by Jim Berekley about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of the PCUSA. He lifted up a letter written by a group called Presbyterians in Dialogue for Peace as the example of an “evenhanded, reasonable, [...]
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