Category: Emergent/Emerging Churches

I’ve always found it hard to enter into a “critique” mode … I find it hard to do a book review and offer a critique on the authors ideas. By this I don’t mean I’ve tossed out the need to be criticial or as a person I don’t easily dish out criticisms. What I’m saying…

Increasingly the term “postmodernism” or “postmodern” is cropping up in our conversations here in Malaysia or a recent seminar in Singapore actually had a workshop on it. When words are used to “exclude” or as yardstick of whether you are ok or even as a “trendy cool” word then it’s harder to engage in genuine…

Sometimes these things happen … *smile* When Brian McLaren was “internet-trotting” having a fun time (I think) with his blog tour for his latest book. I actually missed it because I was at the Lutheran pastors retreat in Cameron (with a ministerium meeting thrown in plus I was unable to get online – more like…

Thanks to Rudy Carrasco for making this podcast available where Andrew Jones talks about “emerging church”. Some notes by Charles Wear. go ahead and click on and download this MP3

I’ve been leaving comments quite a bit lately on other people’s blogs .. I thought I’d just share some while linking the original posts. On A Question of Church (1) while I was driving to work today .. my mind was thinking about how all this may translate in Malaysia. Karen does wonderful job highlighting…

Thanks DJ Chuang for this article by Tim Dearborn, The Emerging Church: The Old Church Made New. It’s encouraging to read from a western American perspective how the emerging church in Asia, Africa and Latin America can impact American Christianity. So, has the age of genuine, level, equal conversation and partnership begun? I suppose both…

Here’s some not so random links for those who are following the “discussion” or “conversation”, I’m eavesdropping to hear, and keeping my eyes open to see how my western brothers (and sisters) work this out .. : The Emerging Storm: DA Carson, Andrew Jones and Scot McKnight Thanks Stephen for a little outline An Open…

Andrew Jones updates us by saying here at Are We A Threat to the Gospel? (Restored) “This is getting a little unwieldy. Can we keep in mind that this is not a matter of baptist church VS emerging church but rather Mohler VS McLaren. And remember that Mohler does not speak for all Baptists, just…

here’s from the point of a first time new comer to our conversation last Saturday, “an introduction to emergent”, I manage to put in some comments to encourage further conversation. Ah .. that word again, I was reminded by what Brian McLaren said some time ago .. and I agree with him especially in our…

Emerging Leaders Network so this is what fellow Lutheran Karen Ward is up to with her friends! We’re pretty aware of the spirit of Luther, “here we stand!” then “Now it’s time to walk ahead together” Here’s what they are up to: “ELN seeks to be a community of friendship, discernment and theological conversation among…