Much has already been written (blogged) about the Emergent church smackdown with Tony Jones, Scot McKnight. Kevin DeYoung and Alex and Bret Harris (whom I had never heard of before seeing this) at the Christian Book Expo.
You can see the video here. After you’ve watched the video, come back here.
Here are my reflections.
1. McKnight and [...]
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Emergent Smackdown Reflections
Posted in Blogroll, change, church, emerging church, speech acts on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Blog Changes…Coming Soon (And Immediately)
Posted in Blogroll, blogs, books, change, church, consumerism, emerging church, missional, reading, words, writing on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few months ago I sketched out a blog post about the death of blogging. In the post itself (which never met the net), I described how boring blogging had become and how I felt that there wasn’t much being said on most blogs — including this one. I posited that the reaosn for this was [...]
Missional Misgivings Misgivings
Posted in Missional Church, church, emerging church, ministry on December 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some of you may have read Dan Kimball’s “Missional Misgivings” article over at Out of Ur. If not, let me get you up to speed. Kimball argues that missional advocates — at least one he was on a panel with — believe that the mega-churches (sometime called “attractional”) are dying and that younger people in [...]
The Voice New Testament: The Epistles etc…
Posted in Missional Church, books, emerging church, spiritual formation on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been blogging about different things lately and have gotten away from finishing my series of reviews concerning The Voice: New Testament. We’ve covered the look and feel of it and the gospels, so today we’ll conclude with the epistles etc…
My friend, Chris Seay, retells the Pauline epistles and I think they are very well [...]
UnChurched
Posted in church, emerging church, equality, poverty, preaching, race relations, ranting, spiritual formation, surrender, theology, unity, words on October 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I want to join the ranks of the unchurched!
A lot has been written and said about unchurched people over the last 10-15 years, but there may be something significant to being “unchurched.” The technical definition of “unchurched” is someone who has not participated in a worship service in 6 months or more. I’ve never spent [...]
Sneak Peeks
Posted in books, church, emerging church, preaching, reading, tagged 30 Rock, emerging church, reading on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got two sneak peeks of interest today. First, you can see the 1st episode of this season’s 30 Rock, starring Tina Fey here. It’s a complete episode, you don’t want to miss it. Second, I’m now holding my copy of The Voice: New Testament. I’ll go into further details about The Voice next week, [...]


