New Parish Church

O the beauty of the dialogue sparked by LaRon Shults’ Emergent/C post (for more comments, links and conversation visit emergent blog and generous orthodoxy think tank). The action/belief dance has been a difficult one for modern Westerners. The tune keeps

I’ve been picturing a group of neighborhood kids playing tag in the backyard when all of a sudden one of the kids sees something in a tree. She stops playing the game as it has been played and goes over

Yesterday I participated in one of the most promising North American emergent-type events I have seen in some time. Karen Ward and the Church of the Apostles sponsored “mission shaped church: a learning party.” A couple of things that were

Teresa Acheson, who is a seminary student and radio host (listen live, www.ciay.ca Fridays @ 10pm PST) interviewed me as part of her research for a paper entitled Where is the Emerging Church Heading? She was gracious enough to let

A reader of my blog recently asked a few questions about ministry in a postmodern context. While I am certainly seeking to engage our emerging cultural context I can’t claim to be an expert in these matters. I will say

Today I was interviewed by a student researching the “emerging church.”  Here are my somewhat esoteric responses: > Can you think of a model for the emerging church? When I use the term “emerging church” I am not simply referring

It is my hope that even our harshest critics can serve a vital role in our “becoming.”  Look at the shaping impact of the protestant church on the church of Rome; could there have been a Vatican 2, without the

D. A. Carson who was one of the more respected Conservative evangelical New Testament scholars and one of my former teachers, has recently offered the following criticism of the “emerging church.”  In Dr. Carson’s clear, and at times, biting comments, he raises