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October 2014

October 27, 2014

The Emerging Church Is What It Says It Is

On Friday I covered the first of two articles by political scientists Ryan P. Burge of...

October 24, 2014

Study Shows Emergent Is Not As Liberal As You Thought

Just when you thought emergent was dead, scholars are showing that it's very much alive...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

Destroying America: Muslims, Communists…and Me!

So, it seems I -- and all of you who are part of the emergence...

August 23, 2013

Synergies Between the Emerging Church and 12 Steps

The following is a guest post by Chris Estus. Chris is an "Aspiring Emergent." He left...

July 2013

July 12, 2013

Book Sale

Dear readers, for the next week, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope is on sale in...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

Whaddya Say We Get Honest about Labels?

This morning on Marketplace Morning Report, Krissy Clark filed a story entitled, "What Does 'Welfare'...

January 2013

January 23, 2013

The Fuller Seminary of Malaysia

I've given three lectures so far in Malaysia. The first was on ministry uses of...

March 2010

March 17, 2010

The Pentecostal Controversy

Over the past month, I've both requested help from the Pentecostal readers of this blog...

March 09, 2010

Society for Pentecostal Studies Paper: What Pentecostals Have to Learn from Emergents

I don’t know that we’re far enough into this thing called emergence Christianity to proffer...

March 08, 2010

Society for Pentecostal Studies Paper: What Emergents Have to Learn from Pentecostals

It’s on this very point that I’d like to suggest that emergents can learn from...

March 07, 2010

Society for Pentecostal Studies Paper: Characteristics

In any version of Christianity, certain things bind the persons who affiliate with that variety...

March 06, 2010

Society for Pentecostal Studies Paper: Definitions

Getting one’s arms around the emergent church is no mean feat – indeed, I believe...

March 05, 2010

Society for Pentecostal Studies Paper: Introduction

Good evening and thank you. I want to begin by thanking the executive committee of...

March 01, 2010

Pentecostalism and Emergence: Discerning the Spirit

More about my reflections in advance of the Society for Pentecostal Studies at which I...

February 2010

February 22, 2010

Pentecostalism and Emergence: Theology

More about my reflections in advance of the Society for Pentecostal Studies at which I...

February 18, 2010

Some Perspective on the Death of Emergent

This week and next, I'm preparing for my address to the Society for Pentecostal Studies...

February 08, 2010

Emergence NOW Recap

Last week, I had the pleasure of presenting -- alongside Phyllis Tickle, Bruce Reyes-Chow, and...

December 2009

December 15, 2009

Google Wave as Group Sermon Preparation Tool

In case you haven't heard, Google Wave is the latest innovation by the company upon...

October 2008

October 01, 2008

Day One in Australia

It’s not a short flight from San Francisco to Sydney – about 14 hours. But...

September 2008

September 24, 2008

The EMC as an NSM

Lots of talk around the blogosphere in the last couple weeks about the goodness or...

September 02, 2008

"Unorthodox Interpretation of Scripture"?!?

I like Marcia Ford. I've met her, and I've blurbed at least one of her...

May 2008

May 02, 2008

Around the Horn

First Base: Collin Hansen and I have begun a dialog on our two books and...

April 2008

April 21, 2008

The New Christians, Webisode One

November 2007

November 20, 2007

Denim, Colored T-shirts, and AAR/SBL

Well, I have to eat my words a bit, friends. I actually had a great...

October 2007

October 29, 2007

Upcoming

The next couple weekends find me in St. Louis and Spokane. This weekend, I'll be...