I am so, so, so grateful to Tripp, Tony, Josh, and all the funders of this podcast. What a gift! I can only imagine all the creative energy, conversations, and time invested… thank you! Emergent Village and the entire emerging church era were – and are – vital to my life and faith journey. It’s been so good to hear voices, to be reminded of faces, conversations, events, experiments, and even where I was.
Now, I’ve used this post differently than I usually do… every two weeks I updated this post with the latest Emerged Podcast episodes until the podcast series concluded. The final episode was released on May 6th, 2024. Emerged was a production of Homebrewed Christianity. I did this primarily for me… I wanted to have a record of this podcast on my blog.
I am grateful to say that I was part of this movement, and still find a measure of my identity and friendships from this important season. For all the criticism this movement received over the years, I found a home within it. I was even interviewed in episode three. But truly, it was this movement that helped me to know that I was not alone in my desire for a more authentic spirituality than had been handed to me in my conservative evangelical upbringing, or in my desire to participate in a community of faith & practice that was actually seeking to discover and live out a more faithful way of following Jesus into the everyday, ordinary stuff of life. I hold so much thankfulness for the people and local communities that were part of this movement.
And – for the record – I believe that the broader emergence movement is pointing toward a massive shift that we are still navigating. While the organization “Emergent Village” might no longer exist, Christ’s church is very much still emerging. To use Phyllis Tickle’s metaphor, the church and the Western world is still bringing junk out of its basement for its recurring, “rummage sale.”
Trailer
Podcast Hosts: Tony Jones & Tripp Fuller
Technical Production: Josh Gilbert . Music: The Cobalt Season
#1 . Proto-Emergent
Featuring: Danielle Shroyer, Brad Cecil, Tim Conder, Gerardo Marti, & Doug Pagitt
#2 . Miracle at Glorieta
Featuring: Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Brad Smith, Morgan Leigh McKenna, Brad Cecil, Tim Conder, Andrew Jones, & Chris Seay
#3 . Peak Emergent
Featuring: Dwight Friesen, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Brad Smith, Lilly Lewin, Mark Scandrette, Chris Seay, Michael Toy, & Mark Oestreicher
#4 . The Phyllis Phenomenon
Featuring: Jon Sweeney, Brian McLaren, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Diana Butler Bass, & the late Phyllis Tickle
#5 . Emergence is Everywhere
Featuring: Jonny Baker, Jason Clark, Peter Rollins, Graeme Codrington, Sivin Kit, Dave Andrews, Shawn Landres, & Sharon Brous
#6 . A Day in the Life
Featuring: Tim Keel & Danielle Shroyer
#7 . Rachel Held Evans & the Theological Time Machine
Featuring: The late Rachel Held Evans . Tripp interviewed Rachel in back in 2011; this is the first time this interview has been aired. This episode also features Ryan Burge, & Nadia Bolz-Weber.
#8 . The Backlash
Featuring: Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, & Nadia Bolz-Weber.
#9 . Emergent So White
Featuring: Anthony Smith
#10 . The Legacy
This Final Episode Features: Mark Scandrette, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Jason Mitchell, Danielle Shroyer, Lilly Lewin, Rudy Carrasco, Jonny Baker, Tim Keel, Tim Conder, Morgan McKenna, Brad Cecil, Brad Smith, Jay Bakker, Barry Taylor, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Gerardo Marti, Mike Clawson, Mike Stavlund, Diana Butler Bass, Anthony Smith, & me.
Here are a few shorter conversations published in preparation for the release of the first full episode of the Emerged Podcast, with at least one conversation from part way through the series. The first conversation is with the late Rachel Held Evans, followed by three key voices of the movement: Tim Conder, Diana Butler Bass, & Nadia Bolz-Weber.
Peace, dwight
