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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Facebook vs Blog
I guess I’m not alone in being a weaker blogger because of Facebook. For me, it’s a sense of communication: blogs are big, silent things which only “talk back to you” when you get some comments. Comments are the payback of blogging frequency. The strength of blogging is that it provides a chance to really […]
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 […]
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 […]