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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Great article in Christianity Today today about the demise of faddish Gen X ministries and the rise of socially conscious, missional communities in their wake. Here’s a poignant take-away. Having learned from the example of other next generation ministries, leaders at Central Peninsula Church suppressed the tendency toward intergenerational dissension with one key decision made [...]
Semi-Weekly Webcast: The Cussing Pastor
Monday, June 1st, 2009The Cussing Pastor Ed Young of Fellowship Church on pastors who use … colorful language HT: Bobby Minor
Hear Gabriel’s Colleagues as Well
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Pastors Liz Rios and Luis Alvarez are colleagues of “Voice of a New Generation” Gabriel Salguero at the Latino Leadership Circle. They recently collaborated on an article examining the intersection of the emerging church and a traditional ethnic denominational experience, published by Fuller Theological Seminary: “Will a New Church Emerge? Las Raices in the Assemblies [...]
Monday Morning MP3 (Afternoon Edition)
Monday, May 12th, 2008Scot McKnight on the Whole Gospel Speaking to small group leaders at Northpoint Community Church If you’re unfamiliar with Professor Scot McKnight of North Park University, aka “Jesus Creed,” dig him — “one of the most prolific bloggers ever” — here. Courtesy: Emergent Village Podcast. Amazon.com Widgets
Monday Morning MP3 (Afternoon Edition)
Monday, May 5th, 2008Everything Must Change: The Radical Meaning of the Kingdom of God for Today’s World Brian McLaren An interview exploring the emerging church, post-modernity, post-colonialism, global crises, Generous Orthodoxy, and Everything Must Change. Recorded at the National Cathedral on February 17th, 2008. Courtesy National Cathedral Amazon.com Widgets
Everything Must Change, Part 2
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008SESSION 2: Which Jesus? If hope is easy, then we aren’t appreciating the desperation of the system. (See Part 1 for the Four Global Crises) If Christ is the answer to the world’s problems, which Jesus fits the bill? Our culture posits many perceptions of Christ: + The Will Ferrell Baby Jesus + The “Limp [...]
Everything Must Change, Part 1
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Brian McLaren visits LPAC this weekend for the New York leg of his Everything Must Change tour. I’ll be there tonight and tomorrow morning and will blog as much of my notes as possible. Stay tuned for pictures as well. EMC Session 1 The book’s story begins with … a youth pastor and a flip [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007An Emergent Manifesto of Hope Rudy has a chapter in this book. I read the first draft. My pitch to him afterwards: “Don’t let the editors change a thing!” I can’t vouch for the rest of the book yet, but it’s worth the price for Rudy’s “Pound of Social Justice: Beyond Fighting for a Just [...]
The "vortex" of reformation
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Fascinating interview on the future of the emerging church at Christianity Today‘s Out of Ur blog: But would you place the emerging church with Evangelicalism, or it is something else? No, it’s not evangelicalism. American religion has four, pretty much equally divided, quadrants. Evangelicalism is one of them, charismatic Pentecostalism is another, the old mainline [...]
Precious Moments?
Friday, March 16th, 2007Andrew Jones tipped me off to this series of rants from Mark Riddle. (Beware the sometimes colorful language.) Some of the commentary sounds bitter and whiny. But some is very clever. For instance: Biblical scenes you will never see on a Precious Moments figurine. 1. John the Baptist being beheaded. 2. Jesus on the cross. [...]
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