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A quivering mass of availability

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” Will Willimon writes in Pastor: The pastor is [often] reduced to the level of the soother of anxieties brought on by the dilemmas of

Ordained to give itself away

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church” The Church is the only institution which, without irresponsibility, can expend all its resources on great and lavish outbursts of compassion. It is ordained

What will we nail to the door today?

489 years ago today, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church at Wittenburg, somewhat similar to posting a notice on a university bulletin board today. I think it’

What is the Emerging Church?

Looking forward to reading this paper by Scot McKnight (snippet from TSK): Here’s my point: if you narrow the emerging movement to Emergent Village, and especially to the postmodernist impulse therein, you