There will be a small conference, starting this Friday, with 24 people discussing the future of Emergent Village. I wanted to take a minute and type out some thoughts/hopes for the future of EV, since it’s been instrumental in much of the conversation and many of the friendships I have grown into over the past [...]
I grew up a narrow minded person. Either you agreed with me, and were right (right can mean either correct, or conservative here- back then those words were interchangeable to me), or you didn’t and only needed to be shown how wrong you were. As you probably can guess, this approach doesn’t go over well [...]
So, there I am, just hanging out at work, and all the sudden I get an email. Who is it from? Emergent Village. (Emergent/C Newsletter) “Ok,” I say to myself (not outloud of course, becuase that’s just wierd to talk to yourself out loud in public… if I were at home I probably would have [...]
I could say 2.0 here, because I have posted on this topic before, but that would be too much of a steal from Adam’s blog series, so we’ll just say “Thought’s on Pluralism” and leave it at that. It’s been a couple months shy of a year since I wrote that first post, and looking [...]
There was some noise in the emerget/ing blogosphere a while back about the forthcoming death of emergent, and while it was going on, I kept thinking “Man, I hope not, that would be a bit of a blow to me.” I felt like I needed the structure of the EC to continue on so I [...]
First off, I want to thank Derek for a very fair critique of the movement. Obviously I disagree with him on a few points, but overall I feel that he does a good job of summing up and giving his thoughts on what he sees. We’ve all heard critiques on (or against) emergent before, from [...]
A friend of mine recently published the following critique of emergent, it’s quite a read (quite longer than… like 99.9% of my posts), but I feel that it’s a good read. It’s an honest critique of emergent, not attacking, simply assessing. Often times, we get overly defensive when critiqued, I would ask that anyone who [...]
I recently read Divinity and Diversity by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki for the Transforming Theology Blogger Consortium, and I’ve been sitting on this for a couple weeks now. I had every intention of writing something last week, but after mulling things over in my mind, I could never find a satisfactory way of approaching the book. [...]
I’ve had so many idea’s for blogs this past week, yet every time I sit down to write one I completely forget the brilliant idea which I had just hours ago. Today, on my car ride home, I began to think up a (brilliant) post, only to take a nap and lose the entire thing. [...]
This is an email I recieved from an old friend last weekend. I’m going to post my response here as well, as I think these are good questions that show some more insight into my life/thoughts/faith. So I noticed you’re into all the Emergent stuff. I’ve been interested in this whole movement for a few [...]