– Brazilian emerging church leaders are doing the rounds in Europe. Check them out in England at the Tribal Generation event, Nov 27th. Click image to enlarge for details.
– Mark DeVine speaks well of the Emerging Church on MP3, making it safe for emerging Baptists to come out of hiding.
– Carson Clark responds to Dr Claytor’s claims about the emerging church at Toccoa Falls College. Start at Part 3 and work backwards.
– Johnathon Wilson-Hartgrove discusses his new book on Cooperative economics called “God’s Economy: Redefining the Health and Wealth Gospel.”
– Dallas hosts an emerging church meeting Nov 13 with McLaren and Rohr.
– Episcopal Village launches in USA. It raises the question “What if the church took the responsibility of raising young emerging churches or new fresh expression ministries in their neighborhood, diocese, and nation? ”
– Becky Garrison just published an essay on alternative church movements in Yale’s Reflections. Its called “A Mixed Economy of Church in a Post-Christian Marketplace” and I wish I could upload the article here but you will have to buy the paper version. If you are reading the quote from me and wondering where on my blog that wonderful eloquent quote is located, well, sorry but its in the 2004 archives but Google was ignoring it this morning. Maybe someone else has the link?
– The “Fresh Expressions” movement in the UK, an initiative of Archbishop Rowan Williams , happily reports that there are close to 800 projects now in the UK. The Fresh Expressions one year course named Mission Shaped Ministry now has 1200 students. Not bad for the first 3 years of existence. More information on Fresh Expressions and some practical advice on how to get started, with the occasional comment by me and a few others, is available on Share The Guide.
for those who want to soak in TSK’s brilliance, here’s the URL where I pulled these words of wisdom which he was kind enough to cast before swine like me. 🙂
http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2004/12/measuring_emerg_1.html
If anyone wants a PDF of this article, email me at bgthedoor@aol.com. (It is 8MB so if your server can’t take files that large let me know and I’ll send you the article via a You Send it link. A great free program for sending files up to 100MB BTW.) And if you’d like the entire issue to use with your church, cohort, etc. just shoot me your address and I’ll forward on the request to the editor of Reflections.
Thanks for pointing me towards Carson Clark’s blog. I’ve been exasperated often by the predilection of folks in my “camp” who toss the heretic word around way too casually. I’m deeply saddened that theological discussion has often been reduced to posturing and that we’ve more often than not forgotten Paul’s words to Timothy to not be quarrelsome but to correct in love. Peace.
Hey TSK. IVP asked me for a list of “influencers” whom they could send a copy of my new book, How to Inherit the Earth. I thought of you! Can I give them an address to send a copy?
Thanks.
Scott Bessenecker (author of The New Friars)
scottbdot@gmail.com
The closest for me are the brazilian guys. Do you know anything about like-minded people in Colombia?
saludos
Saludos – email me. I know some people here in NYC who are part of the Latino Leadership Circle who travel to South America. They would be a good resource for you.
And one more thing:
http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2009/10/transform-missional-community.html
Mountain Guy – we hosted an emerging church event in Colombia back in 2001. Check out Tribal Generation in Colombia here