Church

Evaluating the emerging church

An article I wrote for The Evangelical Baptist has now been posted (in PDF format): I find myself to be a bit of an apologist for the Emerging Church, not because I am

Up close

From Real Live Preacher: Real Christianity involves getting together with a handful of pilgrims and getting intimate. It means braving the possibility of communion. It means letting people into your personal space. And,

Fellowship Baptists and the emerging storm

As Stephen Shields and others have noted, 2005 is the year that the emerging church will get a lot of attention and criticism. This is going to hit in a lot of places

View from the outside

A reporter visits a megachurch and reports on the experience: I tell Pastor Tim that, while my experience has been pleasant, I still have reservations about the evangelical movement in general. To me

The Emergent Matrix

From Christian Century: I left the convention cautiously hopeful. I am attracted to the pragmatic ecumenism of Emergent, whose goal is not to create a unified structure at the top but to recognize