Emerging Church
If we could completely dismantle everything we now know as church (its structures, its ministries, its institutions, its traditions etc.) and literally begin everything from scratch, would you still do it the way we do it today?
-- Mike Frost
- Edgy church breaks old rules... · Satire
- from The Lark
- I hate the 'Emerging' church
- counterpoint...
- Wikipedia: Emerging Church · Index
- a nice introductory article
- ChurchNext
- a very active online community focused on emerging tribal expressions of being church; very interesting!
- Emerging Church / Emerging Culture
- Earl Creps, AOG Theological Seminary, great resource list
- Forge Mission Training Network · Australia
- an Australian network for pastors, church planters and various others
- FutureChurch · New Zealand
- a New-Zealand based emerging church network
- Living Room · Australia
- by one of the Forge Network participants, probably a better place to start than the (impersonal) Forge website
- PostMission (articles page)
- Mission theorists talk strategy in postmodernity
- Some 'Emerging Church' blogs
- the communication tool of choice
- The Ooze
- one of the leading community sites of the movement
- The Underground Ministry Handbook
- Practical wisdom from countercultural churches of goths, nomadic travelers, punk/hardcore and industrial/metal scenes, ravers.
- Translating the Gospel
- by Mike Frost; spiritual relevance and irrelevance in Australia
The same problems which compel some to reinvent church leads some, without rejecting an actively Christian life, to adopt a 'churchless' lifestyle. Their views, critiques, and experience are not uniformly constructive, but can provide the renovators with ideas they may not otherwise come across.
- A Churchless Faith, by Alan Jamieson
- Jamieson summarises his book (ISBN 0-473-07021-9) on the subject for Reality magazine. A pastor and sociologist, the book grew out of his Ph.D. research.
- Churchless Faith
- An outline of Alan Jameison's book, from the publisher's website.
- The Ooze: A Churchless Faith
- A perceptive article at
The Ooze
, by Craig Bird.
The P-word is often mentioned in reference to the Emerging Church movement.
- About.Com
- Postmodernism
- Alt.Postmodern
- newsgroup FAQ list
- Articles on the Sokal Hoax
- One of the more entertaining experiments involving postmodernism and objectivity.
- How to Deconstruct Almost Anything · Parody
- A software engineer offers a brief account of postmodernism.
- A Theological Understanding of Postmodernism
- by Daniel J. Adams
- Christian Faith And Postmodernity
- Scott Moore, Baylor University : Huge resource
- Gospel And Postmodernism, The
- (and modernism) — a great introduction
- LInks on Postmodernism and Christian Theism
- by Faithmaps
- Preaching in a Postmodern Wor[l]d
- conversational homiletics
- The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World
- 1994 speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, by Vaclav Havel, Czech president
- The Roots of Today's Lying Epidemic
- "Children who are morally illiterate, children who are not adequately warned about the hazards of lying, cheating, stealing, and cutting corners are harmed in very direct ways."
- Theology at the Rim of a Broken Wheel
- (Middleton / Walsh again)
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