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
So excited to share the launch of a new podcast co-hosted by Tripp Fuller & Tony Jones, and produced by Josh Gilbert. It’s titled, “Emerged: an oral history of the emerging church movement.” The podcast launched on January 1st, 2024
Recently I had the opportunity to be a part of an international gathering of Emergent minded followers of Christ from Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, New
So I got home at 2:30 this morning after being in Atlanta for the Emergent Villages 11th Annual Theological Conversation. This conversation was different in a lot of ways from prior conversations. Most often the conversations have focused on unscripted
In just a couple of days I get to join one of the most important theological conversations that Emergent Village has hosted to date. The conversation will bring Dr. Musa Dube , Dr. Richard Twiss, and Dr. Colin Greene together
Got to go down to Portland at the invitation of Karen Ward to participate in an emergent conversation within the Episcopal Church. The event is “Episcopal Village West.” Its so cool to see more of denominations and faith traditions further
Paragraph I am so excited about the 2010 Emergent Village Theological Conversation. Like prior EV theological conversations, academic luminaries will enter into conversation with pastors – no notes, no papers delivered, no formality – simply a conversation about things that
This book was born in the context of an eleven-year life altering experiment in ecclesial life, fleshed out in learning communities with thoughtful women and men who never ceased to ask insightful and revealing questions, and now it is being
A couple of weeks ago I was able to spend a few hours with Christian Churches Together, which is a relatively new ecumenical network in the USA. I have to say that I find these ecumenical gatherings quite encouraging. For
This week is the fourth annual gathering of the fairly new ecumenical group, Christian Churches Together (CCT), and this year’s meeting brings them to Seattle, and are being hosted by World Vision. CCT has invited me to facilitate a couple
Keep your eyes out for an upcoming theology/technology/culture conversation at Claremont School of Theology. Follow this link for more information. Philip Clayton and Tripp Fuller are putting together what is looking to be a fascinating conversation. I will be presenting
Emergent Village continues to emerge as social network of conversationally engaged, missionally minded communities/people of faith. Check out the statement from EV and listen to a podcast of some of the EV board members talking about the move to an
I will be representing emergent village at the National Workshop on Christian Unity in Chicago later this Spring. I’ll have the privilege to present a workshop on emergent village and ecumenism. BTW, Emergent may have some opportunities to include some
Allelon (Mark Priddy & Alan Roxborogh) is holding a gathering for creation of a Missional Order Andrew Jones and others will be there. Missional Order GatheringPacific NorthwestOct 15-18 2007 Another event coming up in Spokane is An Emergent Mainline Dialogue
Just returned from the 50th anniversary celebration of the Faith & Order Commission of the National Council of Churches in the USA, which took place at the site of the first gathering at Oberlin College. It was great to rub shoulders with people
Tomorrow I head out to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the National Council of Churches’ “Faith and Order Commission.” The celebration is taking place at Oberlin College in Ohio which was the site of the first gathering half a century
This is a helpful link for anyone looking to learn more about the emerging conversation and how it is shaping and re-shaping church and faith practices. Its compiled by Wess Daniels who blogs at “Gathering in Light“ peace, dwight
Tomorrow I will be presenting the following paper to the National Council of Churches “Faith & Order Commission.” I was asked to reflect on “Full Communion” from the perspective of Emergent Village. Full Communion has been a way of describing
There is a Northwest gathering of emerging women leaders coming up, January 26-28, 2007 in Troutdale, OR. For more information or to register follow this link. Peace, dwight
Samir Selmanovic, Andrew Seely (See Andrew’s blog post about the experience) and I participated in the National Council of churches Faith & Order Commission a couple of weeks ago. The three of us participated in the dialogues as representatives of
Emergent friend, fearless leader, and scrappy theologian – the ever provocative Tony Jones will be in Seattle this weekend and has an open invitation for lunch on Sunday (3/19) at Brouwer’s Cafe: 3502 Phinney Ave N at 35th Street in
Monday and Tuesday of this week I was privileged to be in dialogue with a remarkable cohort of Jewish and Christian religious leaders reflecting together on the challenges of guiding faith-communities in our ever morphing culture. The gathering was hosted
I’ll be attending the 2006 Theological Conversation featuring Dr. Miroslav Volf sponsored by Emergent, the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Zondervan Publishing, and Abingdon Press/Cokesbury Bookstores. February 6-8, 2006. Peace, dwight
Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger at Fuller and Mark Priddy (Allelon) are bringing a group of Avant-church influencers together for a few days to discuss church, networking, training, leadership, etc. I head out very early this morning. This will be
The cover story of the current issue of Time is “The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals.” Listed among the powerful voices of Rick Warren, James Dodson, Richard John Neuhaus, Billy/Franklin Graham, J. I. Packer, Bill Hybels, John Stott, and sixteen others,
So I’m thinking of participating in the theological conversation sponsored by emergent featuring Walter Brueggemann. I’ve deeply appreciated Dr. Brueggemann’s and his ongoing contribution to biblical scholarship. It would be great to interact with other emergent theologians in an intimate
I wish I could be with so many of my friends, and sojourners at the emergent conference this week. I was fortunate to see many of them earlier this year in San Diego, and if my memory serves me correctly
