Subvert the norm: remaining vigilant

It is finished! We just had an amazing time at the subvert the norm conference at drury university in Springfield Missouri. There were some well known voices and some new voices that were added to the conference for this second installment. However, this is not an update, I will leave that up to those who [...]

Toward Collective Liberation: Building Successful Social Movements

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It wasn’t until recently I realized that I had somehow lost a bunch of digital files off my computer. It was mainly photos and newspaper articles from my activist work when I lived in the San Francisco/Bay Area from the late 90′s to the mid 2000′s. That loss left me feeling sick with the thought [...]

SKEPTIMERGENT

Welcome to the beginning of a collaboration between various people called “SKEPTIMERGENT.”  This dialogue began as a chat between myself, Rob Davis (who coined the title), Jeff Straka, Doug Pagitt, Victoria Peterson-Hilleque, and Chris Hill, and ended up as a Patheos blog.  I have long been interested in building bridges between those in the unbelieving [...]

By Invitation Only?: Private Summit Actually Threatens to Undermine Emergence Christianity

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The day before the national book event honoring Phyllis Tickle in Memphis, roughly 50 (Correction: 35) emergent movement leaders had a State of Emergence Christianity meeting. The meeting was organized by Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt, also the organizers of the book event.  (Correction: Phyllis Tickle called the meeting and contracted JOPA Productions to organize [...]

Emergence Christianity – Conversation

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Phyllis Tickle has lent her voice to many great efforts and in the last decade she has been investing herself in issues of Emergence. She has release a new book – Emergence Christianity She and I discussed this book and the issues as she sees them on my radio show this week you can listen in [...]

Authentic Jesus Generations: Woodstock to Wild Goose by Randy Woodley

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Although there is not much in general these days that one can say about the church, perhaps the clearest sign we have of change is the ever-widening gap between what I will dub the still too common, “Sunday morning church-building crowd” and all the new faith movements including, for example, Emergents, Neo-monastics, Evangelicals 4 Justice, [...]

Church On The Internet

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Last month I had the privilege of interviewing Chris Smith of Englewood Christian Church on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis. Chris joined me for the monthly Twitter #missionalchat in February, and then we sat down to record this half-hour conversation about his new e-book The Virtue of Dialogue (Patheos Press) and his forthcoming book Slow [...]

My Response to Kony 2012 aka #StopKony

I try not to simply re-post thoughts from my blog here, but I wanted to share today’s thoughts with this community as well… If you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter over the last 24 hours, you have probably seen people talking about the efforts to stop Joseph Kony from the organization called Invisible Children. Here’s my response [...]

Recap: Emergent Village Theological Conversation 2012

The annual Emergent Village Theological Conversation has been going on this week at Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California (January 31-February 2, 2012). The theme of this year’s conference was “The Living and Life-Giving God in a World of Transition.” Claremont is the bastion of what is known as process theology, and the main [...]

Emergent Village Process Theology Conversation preview

On my radio show yesterday I talked with Phillip Clayton about Process Theology – the topic of the  Emergent Village Theological Conversation taking place next week at Claremont School of Theology. I think many of you will find this conversation interesting. If you are interested in attending the event click here to Register for the event.