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April 2012

April 24, 2012

Exactly Which Church Are These Letters To?

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club. Check out the Book Club for...

April 23, 2012

For Chuck Colson, Truth Was Truth

The recently deceased Chuck Colson was among the first heavyweight evangelicals to speak out against...

April 23, 2012

Denver Post Declares Emergent Church UnDead

From a Denver Post article on the (not-dead-yet) emergent church: For a rising tide of...

April 16, 2012

Watch Sarah Pulliam Bailey Destroy The Atlantic

Sarah Pulliam Bailey, writer for Christianity Today, is one of my more favorite writers in...

April 14, 2012

Is the Emergent Church Dead?

Brian McLaren thinks not: If we use Phyllis Tickle's term "Christian Emergence" or "Emergence Christianity"...

March 2012

March 28, 2012

Philip Clayton [Hearts] Emergent

Phil published an Op-Ed in the LA Times over the weekend: Although a recent bumper...

March 27, 2012

Too Late for Emergent?

Bill Walker has a very thoughtful post that is only partly about my new book...

March 22, 2012

Mark Driscoll’s House of Cards

Believe it or not, I take no pleasure in the flailings and failings of Christian...

March 05, 2012

What’s After Postmodernism?

Geoff Holsclaw attempt an answer: If you missed it, postmodernism died on September 24th, 2011. ...

February 2012

February 14, 2012

Young Creatives Are Fleeing Evangelicalism

The Barna Group* has a new study out, and it shows that the future is...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

A Mockumentary on the Emergent Church

What do you get when you mix a bunch of YouTube videos, interviews with a...

January 22, 2012

A Flat Church in Action

If I had the chance to do my dissertation research today, instead of 2005, there...

January 12, 2012

Steve Knight Lauds the Language of Participatory Church

When it comes to publishing, social media, and the church, Steve Knight knows what he's...

January 10, 2012

Shane Hipps on Rob Bell’s Departure

Shane is a long-time friend of mine, and the teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible...

January 02, 2012

Get *The Church Is Flat* for Free!

My latest book, The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement, is...

December 2011

December 26, 2011

The Church Is Flat — Now $.99!!!

Wondering what to get with that Amazon gift card you received yesterday? For a limited...

December 07, 2011

Welcome Emergent Village to Patheos

Patheos has partnered with Emergent Village to create a new portal for innovative and experimental...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

What Makes a Vibrant Congregation [VIDEO]

Steve Knight, who consults with the Disciples of Christ denomination, interviewed me about my book,...

October 27, 2011

Who’s To Blame for the Emerging Church Movement (Hint: Evangelicals)

I had the good fortune of presenting a paper last weekend at the Association of...

October 18, 2011

Fred Schmidt Questions the Emerging Church Movement

Coming off an emerging church conference featuring Brian McLaren and Nadia Bolz-Weber, Fred Schmidt is...

October 13, 2011

Soularize and Social Phonics

I've got my kids much of next week, so I can't make it, but on...

October 05, 2011

Jana Riess Interviews…Me!

Jana has posted part one of her interview with me. This part is about my...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

If Jürgen Moltmann Planted a Church – Part Five

This is part of a series based on chapters four and five of my new...

September 06, 2011

Kester Brewin Wonders if (More) Opposition Is Coming

Kester Brewin has been considering a couple conversations he had at Greenbelt, and he wonders...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

Q&A with Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia, one of the instructors at this fall's Church Planters Academy, has been interviewed by...

August 24, 2011

The Church Is Flat Touted as the “Go To” Book on the Movement

Austin Roberts has posted a thorough review of my book, The Church Is Flat: The Relational...

August 23, 2011

If Jürgen Moltmann Planted a Church – Part Three

This is part of a series based on chapters four and five of my new...

August 15, 2011

Emergent ≠ Mainline

Tripp and Bo at Homebrewed Christianity have taken up the conversation here about new labels....

August 10, 2011

The Church Is Flat – Now Available

My latest book, which is a lightly emended version of my dissertation, is now available. ...

August 09, 2011

Kevin Corcoran Weighs In

Over at Church and Pomo, David Fitch and I posted about Kevin's book, Church in...