Emerging Church

Engaging issues

I just finished writing a couple of reviews of Carson’s Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church, which are sadly out of date already, given the events of the past day. The book

Forge update

Lots of reaction to the Forge document: Jordon posts some concerns – “…we still do a lousy job of talking to each other…I wonder what kind of paper Hirch and Frost would have

Don Carson and the Australian Missional Church Movement

A Forge response (PDF) to Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church, suggesting that “Contextualisation must always remain a subset of missions and not the other way around.” Great work by Michael Frost and

Reformed and the ec

I’ve always been surprised the Reformed crowd hasn’t affirmed more of the emerging church (with some reservations). Turns out some do.

Modern Reformation on the Emerging Church

The latest issue contains some articles on the emerging church, including this one by D. A. Carson: Most movements have both good and bad in them, and in the book from which this