Cool article on Emergent Village and a video from the Ooze...
I'm not sure I agree or disagree, probably because I'm too ignorant to do either. Regardless, this woman consistently blows me away with her energy and her spirit. She writes much more cohesively than she interviews, I think because the audio somehow can't catch everything she means to say.
Has anybody read The Great Emergence, and can I borrow it?
Showing posts with label emergence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emergence. Show all posts
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Are We Dead Yet?
There's been a LOT of hubbub around the death of emergent. Is it real?
Everyone probably knows this started with Nick Feidler talking about the great disappointment. As someone who has been in the conversation for a while (although in the closet), but new to being involved, I can't say I see what everyone's talking about.
But there are points. How do we grow? How do we go beyond a conversation and into action?
Maybe this is the next point to what we were talking about as our introductions a few weeks ago, why are you here. Maybe a better question is, where is it going?
I think what Nick's counterpart, Josh, said is really key. The emergent church is dead because the church is dead. Or, at least some forms of it. But it's the deep communities, the fellowship, the groups of people living Christ out in the world and working together to understand more and more what that means. That is thriving, and I think the emergent conversation has done a lot to facilitate that.
Any thoughts? Let's hash it out in the comments!
Everyone probably knows this started with Nick Feidler talking about the great disappointment. As someone who has been in the conversation for a while (although in the closet), but new to being involved, I can't say I see what everyone's talking about.
But there are points. How do we grow? How do we go beyond a conversation and into action?
Maybe this is the next point to what we were talking about as our introductions a few weeks ago, why are you here. Maybe a better question is, where is it going?
I think what Nick's counterpart, Josh, said is really key. The emergent church is dead because the church is dead. Or, at least some forms of it. But it's the deep communities, the fellowship, the groups of people living Christ out in the world and working together to understand more and more what that means. That is thriving, and I think the emergent conversation has done a lot to facilitate that.
Any thoughts? Let's hash it out in the comments!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Some great discussion
I really enjoy how Jonathan Brink simply frames emergence as a conversation. Specifically how important having conversation can be, and why many of us are drawn to it. It is not always useless rhetoric, though it can digress to that. It is ....
"rather .... a Sacred journey towards the Divine, towards the One we know as “The Word”. In our talk, we may be frivolous, we might be deceitful, we can technically “use the medium of language”, but ultimately all Conversation has the potential of drawing all things towards God."
(I didn't have time to get into the 100+ comments that follow these two posts, so beware on that front)
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