Category: Church

It’s been quite a while since we had a family outing, so it was refreshing to pay the eye on Malaysia a visit. May Chin visited the London Eye when she was in UK, so it was informative to hear of the comparison. I noticed that Taman Titiwangsa (a park where I used to come…

When? 10am Where? The Father’s House (BLC premises) After some thought, I know it’s easier for most people to see the conversations revolving around “emerging” churches, “emerging concerns” and “emerging theological conversations”, but all this is meant to cut the fat eventually and get on to what matters most. As far as we are concerned…

Jason Clark has been my top encourager when it comes to getting some conversation going on here in Malaysia and keeping some dialogue open beyond our shores. He’s also got wonderful insights when it comes to theology, church and cultural concerns for today. So, I decided to put up some links form the Emergent-Uk resource…

our little website re-emerges with much life and vitality thanks to wonder Bob. We added in some new stuff in: Articles Creeds Blogs all of this is a very beta mode right now. But it’s great to see the site growing healthily!

My friend Jason Clark in UK is one whom I’m listening too (and I miss the fun we had when we last met some years ago face to face, I still remember the prayer in the van before the train ride) … I read the following with much excitement and interest on his post Slightly…

somehow I think using a lower cap for the word “emergent” is doing me much good 🙂 And now I shall link away! John Franke: Theology as Mission: Envisioning Christian Faith in a Pluralistic Culture My experience is similar to Franke on this … I was in touch and interacting with Mclaren in 2000 before…

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?…