Monthly Archives: March 2009
Emerging – Adjective or Verb (Reflection on Albuquerque Pt 2)
In something of a “let’s see where our opposition comes from” move, denominations have been fearing the “emerging church” and yet have a hard time identifying it. That may be due to the fact it is more a verb than an adjective. Consider.
Ed Stetzer offered research on the “Emerging Church” for a variety of groups [...]
Loam, Compost, Life and Death – Thoughts from the Edge
Gardening, even urban gardening, is a big hit. Grow your own. Sometimes we use compost material, other times we use loam. These elements pain the picture of life from death. Jesus notes in John 12 that unless a grain falls into the ground and dies it cannot give life. He was speaking of wha his [...]
Friday Photo – Taxi In Motion
Sitting on the steps outside Tommie and Jason’s new digs, I captured a shot for this week’s digital photography course assignment – “Motion.”
The Wind of Our Own Making – Reflections Part 1
(Last week I attended “The Emerging Church: Conversations, Convergence and Action” sponsored by the Center of Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M. More than 900 people representing different Christian denominations from the United States and around the world gathered to consider what is emerging in/for/to/through the Church. My best guess pegs the average age of [...]
Living the Vocation of Justice and Peacemaking
The story of Alexi Torres-Fleming is fascinating. You may read a bit of her story here. She recently participated in an event sponsored by the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Twenty-six years ago this evening not long after 7:00 p.m. we said, “I do.” Add in the four years we “dated,” we have enjoyed 30 years of great friendship.
iMonk hosts Michael Bell on ARIS
Since his post on the Coming Evangelical Collapse, Michael Spencer turned the keyboard over to Michael Bell who in two posts offers some insight into the numbers from the recently released ARIS research.
The Coming Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Review by Michael Bell
The Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Analysis Part II by Michael Bell
Mark Sayers on “mini-movements”
Streams. Lakes. Now “mini-movements.” Here Mark Sayers connects the “mini-movements” of Protestantism with the emerging “mini-movements” in the “Emerging Missional Church.” Phyllis Tickle noted that one of the consequences of the Reformation was that we became “pathologically divisive.” What do you think?
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