Church as a Season
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a small style "community because we don't like a building" group that met at a coffee shop. We took turns talking about interesting things in...
View ArticleA People's History of the United States
I recently began reading "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. It's US history from 1492 until the early 2000s told from the perspective of Native Americans, women, slaves, the...
View ArticleCommunications and Post-Modernism
A lot is made over how folks who hold themselves out as members of the Emerging conversation (or post-modern church) don't believe that anything is true.Much of the Western, Evangelical church exists...
View ArticleHow Facebook Killed the Church
I just stumbled across a very interesting blog post on twitter and thought it may spark a good discussion. So why has mobile social computing affected church attendance? Well, if church has always been...
View ArticleWill the Emerging Church Become a Denomination?
About five years ago this question was posed on a blog I stumbled across today. From the post:Let's be clear from the start, this is not about a value judgement on denominations. It's not 'denomination...
View ArticleGod in the Gray Areas
I’ve wondered a lot about the black-and-white thinking that causes us to believe that if we don’t choose Christian fundamentalism, then we must choose atheism—or that if we’re not choosing the...
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