Living as an Ignatian Christian
by Maria Anderson
This post has been in the making for months, and I have been dragging my feet. Today it became apparent to me WHY it has been so hard to write this: Ignatian Christianity is NOT about learning something new in your head. I cannot write a nice essay on it, [...]
Our First Emergent Bible Study – The Epistle of James
Our first movement into ‘Emergent’ Bible study begins with the Epistle of James. There’s a number of reasons that James is a good place to start, but let me share just a few of them. First, for those churches who use (or a variant of) the Revised Common Lectionary, James is making his triennial visit [...]
The Moral Failure of the New Atheists
The “New Atheists” are often compared to the fundamentalists** they rail against, by both religious and secular critics. These criticisms are often rebuked by some sort of argument based on empiricism or rationality, quite removing the real indictment that is being made and the moral failure the New Atheists* are in the midst of. The [...]
Why I am Emergent
When I’m with Emergent types, I often get asked “Why are you Episcopalian” which I have many answers (including this one I gave to Bruce Reyes-Chow) to and most respect. But when I’m with Episcopalians I often get a turned up eye and a weird look when I say I’m interested in the Emerging Church. [...]
Emergent Bible Study
Over on the forums (yes, we have forums, go join the conversation!) we’ve been discussing the idea of an Emergent Bible Study group that would be modeled on our Theological Book Club. We’re still working out how we’ll go about this task, but we are interested in taking this on in a very ‘Emergent’ sort [...]
Modernity as Toolbox
The Guardian.uk’s Theo Hobson has an interesting piece on the Greenbelt religious festival in England, where modernity is more toolbox than threat.
I think that Greenbelt is part of a major religious trend that has not been very widely noted. A new style of liberal Christianity is slowly emerging. Because it is not a coherent movement [...]
Reforming Ecclesiology in Emerging Churches
Another podcast by the guys at Homebrewed Christianity (home of some excellent conversations and interviews) interviewing LeRon Shults who asks “Should affluent white men be ordained?”
Yeah, it’s a doozy! Might do you some good to read this article from Theology Today first, which is a bit of a launching point for the interview.
Listen here: Reforming [...]
