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 [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Religion: Post-secular, More Secular, Post-christian?
In an Emergent Outliers discussion a few weeks ago the question came up as to whether the US is becoming more secular, is post-secular, post-Christian, or just post-denominational. Tough set of words to sort out. So much of what one will define the religious situation depends on one’s religious lifeworld. It is one’s own religious place [...]
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 [...]
The Heresy Line
As I write this, the Episcopal Presiding Bishop is still delivering her keynote speech. Evidently it has something about the great Western Heresy and it concerns individual versus communal salvation. There is already some blow-back. Until I hear more about it, I don’t have much to say on that particular issue.
But it does raise a [...]
