The Skinny on Emergent Criticism

Emergent Criticism:  7 Years of Spanking Emergent Village has had a long and glorious history of criticism spanning over 7 years to its early days as Young Leaders. Critics have come and gone, but there will always be Kevin Miller of Christianity Today, who I vote as THE BEST Emergent Critic ever. Read on to…

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The Inclusive Church

UPDATE: Jason reviews conference . Inclusive Church Conference this weekend in London, hosted by Jason Clark and Emergent. Doug Pagitt is taking good notes. I am in Singapore today – just had a swim on the hotel roof at the airport, and an Indian roti lunch at the movie theatre [what an airport!] but will…

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Like a Rhizome Cowboy

Here are the details of my presentation “Like a Rhizome Cowboy: The Skinny on emergence principles for network-based churches” given at The Sheffield Centre, November 2004.

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I go to Rio

I go to Rio . . . De Janeiro . . . next May, and not just coz my baby smiles at me (she does), but because i will be speaking and learning at Tribal Generation’s yearly event, the event that i always get invited to, and yet never get there. "New Generation or Urban…

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Not Reformation

Is the Emerging Church attempting to reform the existing church? I was responding to a comment on an emerging church definition that likens it to a new reformation. What I said was . . ” I dont think Reformation describes what we are doing, and the vandalism of the reformation (destroying art and church buildings,…

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Go Tony Go!

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymoreI” Emergent’s Tony Jones totally loses his Lutheran composure with “Throwing Down the Gauntlet.” Just what i felt like reading this morning. Thanks Jonny for the link. And when your done watching Tony jump red-faced around the room, saying things like . . .…

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Twin birth of Emergence and Postmodernism

An interesting thought. Two words that have created a lot of controversy in the church over the past decade have been “emergence” and “postmodern”. Both words were first used in the same decade. The word “postmodern” was first used in the 1870’s by British artist John Watkins Chapman. The first use of the “Emergence” in…

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Emerging Church Different?

“Emerging church is a mindset (‘we’ll come to you’) rather than a model. It is a direction rather than a destination. It rests on principles rather than a plan. It arises out of a culture rather than being imposed on a culture. It is a mood, scarcely yet a movement.”Michael Moynagh, “How is Emerging Church…

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100 Worship Tricks

Jonny Baker has exceeded himself with his absolutely incredible collection of worship experiences (he calls them tricks but i dont like that word much). Check out Jonny’s Worship Tricks when you need some inspiration for Sunday’s worship, or if you are just curious what worship looks like at alt. worship emerging churches in UK and…

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Emergent the Gathering

Oct 18-21. Emergent Gathering is one of my favourite Emergent events. It costs nothing, there are no superheros on the stage, you get to hang out with everyone. i wish i could be there but cannot come this year. But i do HIGHLY recommend going. It was Glorieta New Mexico where we held the New…

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The Skinny on 24-7 Prayer

I just got back from the 24-7 Prayer Roundtable in Spain. Fantastic time. Really! One night we stayed up until 2:30am, chatting outside, laughing loudly, listening to Brian’s depraved stories (pray for Brian), watching Star Wars . . haven’t had such a fun night for ages. A lot of you are asking me exactly what…

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Post-Emerging Church?

Who is worthy of saying such a thing? One of the hot conversations right now is the idea of the Post-Emerging Church. Lets talk about it onight at 7pm London time. Suddenly Seminary guest room at Habbohotel.co.uk Here are some of my thoughts: Who can ascend the post-emerging church hill? Not he who has from…

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Emerging UK and USA

Eddie Gibbs from Fuller Seminary has some good thoughts on the emerging church in UK and USA . . . “In the UK, those working among young people are going with the young people into their culture rather than extracting them and processing them for the Church sub-culture. In the USA, the trend is in…

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Budapest. Again

Off to Budapest, Hungary for another conference with the Alliance For Saturation Church Planting. Its called “Church Multiplication Learning Community“. David Garrison is the main speaker and I am doing a breakout for emerging culture on Friday. Dave Garrison should be great. I have heard much about him and his teaching. The first time I…

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Mills Response to Carson

A lot of you (1100 today) are coming here to read my blog post (and links to other thoughts) regarding D.A. Carson’s critique of the emerging church. The best response (much better and more rational thatn mine) is by David Mills, PhD, who was present at the lectures and wrote The Emergent Church – Another…

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The Skinny on Carson’s Emerging Church Tapes 1.2

I heard the great Don Carson attempt a critique at emerging church. But he ended up spanking an early skeptical de-constructive postmodernist thought that is linked with existentialism and moral relativism. And as I listened, I felt a welt on my backside, reddening and swelling. And for the life of me, I could not piece…

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Emergent Number 2

Type “emergent” in Google and our little group of friends called Emergent Village comes out in first place. yaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Second place is Weblogs and Emergent Democracy, a site about emergence, politics, and some good thoughts on weblogs as an example of emergent self-organization. So good, in fact, that i want to quote their definition on…

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Pilgrimage continues

Things are great for us up here. I met with the monks from Papay, and have been visiting other monastic sites here in Orkney. There are so many here that i will not get to all of them. BTW – we never actually made it to Iona. We were camping right off the island, and…

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Tom Wright and Emerging Church

Great time at the conference. Hard core thinking and then some good relaxing times around the pool table. Good to meet many friends there. Tom Wright was great – bringing a balanced eschatology into a whole cosmology to inform his historic ecclesiology. What?????? He talked a lot about bringing the future of God into the…

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