Category: Church

I appreciate that this response is not done individually but rather collectively (i.e. Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Spencer Burke, Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball, Andrew Jones, Chris Seay) … I like this sense of community and accountability and humility reflected in this piece. More comments later … for now read for yourself and allow your own…

Of course, I’ll carry on my “imaginary conversation” slowly .. because it’s going to be a busy two weeks for me .. I’m trying to be an “unbusy” pastor … but I will fail upfront these two weeks as far as busyness is concerned. Loads of repenting and realignment after these two weeks 🙂 after…

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…