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Faith A La Carte? The Emergent Church
Vol. 14, No. 4 • Jul/Aug 2005
What Are We Talking About? At the heart of the Emergent Church movement-or as some of its leaders prefer to call it, the “conversation”-lies the conviction that changes in the culture signal that a new church is “emerging.” Christian leaders must therefore adapt to this emerging church. Those who fail to do so are blind […]
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The Emerging Church
What Are We Talking About? At the heart of the Emergent Church movement-or as some of its leaders prefer to call it, the “conversation”-lies the conviction that changes in the culture signal that a new church is “emerging.” Christian leaders must therefore adapt to this emerging church. Those who fail to do so are blind […]
Experiencing Emergent
It started out a cold and snowy day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I was heading to the airport, where I was to fly to a significantly warmer San Diego in order to attend an Emergent Church convention. Once there, my job was to secure an interview with Brian McLaren, attend various seminars, and talk to attendees-all […]
Settlers, Pilgrims, and Wanderers
Travel writer Pico Iyer confesses that he likes airports a lot. Part mall, part border-crossing, they buzz with the ambient noise of postmodern consciousness, representing an “everywhere” that is really no actual place at all. Those of us who can’t remember when we were not always on the go, repeatedly uprooted growing up, living in […]
“The Gospel in a Pluralist Society” by Leslie Newbigin
Leslie Newbigin’s book, a well-thought-out and well-intentioned attempt to relate the gospel to the postmodernist movement, brings to bear the hopes and frustrations of Newbigin fostered by three experiences and motivations: his work in missions in India, his leadership role in evangelism with the theologically deteriorating World Council of Churches in the 1950s, and his […]
“Soul Tsunami” by Leonard Sweet
There is a tendency to overestimate the impact of phenomena in the short run and underestimate it in the long run” (Roy Imara of the Institute for the Future [IFTF]). This is the balancing act that Christians are called to in regard to the cultural tidal wave that Leonard Sweet describes in this unfortunately named […]
An Interview with Brian McLaren
Editor’s Note: Brian McLaren, senior pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church near Baltimore, Maryland, is a leading voice of the Emergent movement. He was recently featured in TIME magazine, was a guest on Larry King Live, and is a frequent contributor to evangelical publications. Our conversation with McLaren occurred this past February when he was […]
