Books and Links

There are some new books and links posted on each page now. I’ll be updating them as they become available. I’d like to also have a section with articles from the ooze, next wave, and other news stories about the emerging church.
Most of them are hanging out in my del.icio.us account.
The latest book that I [...]

Ryan Bolger on Newbigin

In case you haven’t heard of Leslie Newbigin, Ryan Bolger has a nice little summary of Newbigin’s significance for the emerging church today and the missional church movement in particular.
I have listed a number of Newbigin’s books below on my suggested reading lists, including The Gospel in a Pluralist Society and The Open Secret. [...]

On the Emerging Church and Blogs

From the Worldwide Faith News archives . . .
Here’s some good reading on the emerging church its use of blogs via TSK and Christian Pundits:
The Emergent Church is defined by Yearbook Editor, the Rev. Dr.
Eileen W. Lindner, as a "conversation" (some would say movement)
birthed in 20th century Protestantism and "characterized by a robust,
energetic and growing [...]

Article by Alan Roxburgh

Emerging/Missional church leader Alan Roxburgh has published an article dealing with the movement of society and hence the church away from structure. (via) Here’s a little snippet:

"The shift over the last 20 years has been from structure to anti-structure.
Put it in different terms, there has been a rapidly growing conviction
that the individual does not [...]

Emerging Churches: House Churches Only Please

Andrew Rowell, a youth min. prof at my alma mater (TU), has posted a carefully thought out critique of Gibbs and Bolger’s Emerging Churches book. No one has yet leveled a critique of the book. Most everyone, such as myself, has merely drooled over it and sung it’s accolades. And for good reason. The Emerging [...]

Power and Salvation

Power and salvation are two cards that have been in the deck of the church for a long time. The church can assert its influence in the world and demand certain kinds of behavior because it has the key to salvation. It has the ability to set the parameters for salvation and can withhold it [...]

Emerging Definitions Have Run Their Course

I’m tired of people trying to define the emerging church. We
are currently glutted with definitions and explanations.
I think that Andrew Jones has compiled the ultimate list of emerging definitions at "emergant", but you can also find a ton of links and reference material at his blog.  Wikipedia also has an extensive entry on the [...]