Students at Trinity have been studying the Emerging Church over the past few weeks and I have had a few conversations about my involvement in it. I came across this useful roundup of the changes in the US-based Emergent conversation on the Emergentvillage blog at the end of 2010. It will help give a sense […]
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America and Britain: some comments arising from Phyllis Tickle on an 18-month window
Phyllis Tickle has written an intriguing post on the Emergent Village Blog. Here’s a sample: Within the next eighteen to twenty-four months, denominations and established communions and the Christians who constitute them will decide, consciously or simply by default, whether “church” is first and foremost an experience of communal bonding, spiritual and religious expression, growth […]
TSK – bye bye blogosphere and thanks for all the fish
Well, sort of. What do you know, after eight years the original Emerging Church blogger, Andrew Jones, is taking a break from blogging for a while. His highly mobile current circumstances suggest this might be a good idea (hey, the man has to have some fun without being tied down to his blog!). But it […]
Church + Bicycles: the ultimate fusion
Respect to Nadia Bolz-Weber and the House for All Sinners and Saints: they’re running the “1st Annual Blessing of the Bicycles” in Denver on Sunday 17th May. Details are here.
How come the Pentecostals have all the fun?
We need more of this kind of stuff in the Anglican Church … BOH!
Bye bye Brodie
Brodie’s taking a break from the blogosphere. He’s been one of my regular reads since I started in the spring of 2005 – when I think he commented on one of my early posts. I’m sad, but respect the decision any blogger makes over whether they keep it up. And if you’re one of those […]
Obama and the religious factor in American politics
It would be entirely wrong to assume that Barak Obama’s victory in the American presidential race indicated a decline in the religious factor in American politics. The Democratic party have had to learn, again and again, that to ignore the strongly religious component in their country’s culture is to court electoral defeat. The practical problem […]
Phyllis Tickle’s correction
Oops! With blogs you never know who’s going to read what you write and drop into the comments. Phyllis Tickle has briefly (and graciously) responded to my very critical review of The Great Emergence with one correction, which I’m happy to accept. You can read the correction in the comments to the original review. As […]
The Great Emergence – with the greatest respect, I demur
Perhaps the most well-announced book to be published this year in the American Christian book market, especially in Emerging circles, is The Great Emergence, by Phyllis Tickle. It’s published by the Emergent Village imprint of Baker Books, so comes as the latest in a highly marketable succession of titles. I managed to pick up a […]
Bishop of Rochester appears to turn his critical gaze on Emerging churches
The Bishop of Rochester, who these days is turning out to be one of the more reliable critics of everything that might be trendy, GAFCON-attender and no-show-er at Lambeth, was invited to to give the talk at the Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society. (A group of traditionalists, who tend to dislike anything […]