Category: Emergent/Emerging Churches

Date: January 13, Saturday Next week Time: 2pm – 4pm Venue: The Father’s House (BLC premises) Hi there, thanks for being patient with us. first things first. Since we’ll be having a good chance to have some “conversations” with Brian McLaren in person … face to face in March 3-4 for the tentatively named “Quiet…

In 2006 I had been give more opportunities (or forced) to write. Kairos Research Centre (KRC), Malaysia asked me (with the help of some friends) to put together what we see as the emerging church phenomena as well as the emergent conversation. Since the word “emerging” somehow is getting more popular now as a kind…

Why Don’t More in the Emerging Church Respond? postmodernegro has a wonderful interaction going on with Stephen in this post. The following comment made me sit up … “While I agree that postmodern skepticism can lead to a profound subjecitivism I also believe that postmodernity illumines (at least the more Continental versions) for us the…

CONFESSIONS OF EMERGING GUY “Are you REALLY being authentic- Mr. or Ms. emerging person? Or just selfish and self-absorbed? Do you remember it is ultimately about Jesus and not Derrida?” … emergers in non-emerging church contexts So, if it’s more about mindset, values, ethos, conversations … we can be a little more relaxed can we?…

I came across a little exchange which is a wonderful model of true conversation and graciousness (amongst Christians in our country). With their permission and in the words of the one who replied in another email to me, “Use for the furtherance of God’s people and the building up of his people to be salt…

Asian American Emergents skypecast this Sunday For me it was monday morning and I REALLY enjoyed this chat. Glad there are 25minutes of Mp3 for others to eavesdrop in. Reformation 1: Scot McKnight at Westminster (updated) I like the picture used with the words “The Reformation will be blogged.” The 5 Books on Emerging Church…

NCC Interesting to see the guys from Emergent Village enter the learning curve of engaging a wider theological conversation. I appreciated this comment: “In some respects, we Emergent Village guys, questioned our involvement in such a endeavor, since we are neither a church or a denomination, nor do we have an established theology, when most…

[Friends of Emergent in Malaysia Video] Whenever I think about the name we’ve used for the past few years – i.e. “Emergent Malaysia”, in order to gather like minded people or interested individuals, I giggle a little bit. There was nothing grandiose about it in anyway (and that was long before much of the present…

I laughed and laughed the first time I saw this You Might Be Emerging If… Apparently Brian McLaren has strong opinions on this. Hamo from Oz did his version here You TOO might be emergent… which inspired me to join the fun 🙂 I will take great liberty to rephrase whatever I want – as…

Yesterday it felt good to send in a article entitled “A Quest for Authentic Faith & Community in the World Today: Eavesdropping on the “Emerging church”/”Emergent” conversation” to a local Malaysian Christian Publication. I will post it up after they publish it 🙂 Being excited I sent it out a “sneak preview” to see if…