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On Saturday night at CCDA I was excited to hear from Soong-Chan Rah, a Korean-American professor at North Park University in Chicago (stinkin everybody at CCDA was from Chicago!) and he did not disappoint.
Soong’s main topic was the changing face of global Christianity. No longer a majority Western religion, Christianity is growing fastest in [...]

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I just finished listening to this message/podcast by Scot McKnight (check out his blog here) entitled, “The Whole Gospel.” 
It is definitely worth a listen and I’ll be adding it to my audio page.  Incidentally, if you tend to only read my stuff through a feed reader, I have tried to catalog a number of [...]

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I just finished listening to an interview by Ingrid Schlueter of Crosstalk and Slice of Laodicea with Doug Pagitt.  Look for the title, “Emerging Church Confusion,” on this page if you’re interested in listening.
I thought about going into detail about all the misconceptions, misunderstandings, straw men, exaggerations, false dichotomies, etc., that marked Ingrid’s assumptions and [...]

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It’s baseball season. I am from Northeast Ohio, so I am an Indians fan at heart, but to be quite honest I don’t follow baseball all that much. However, Tony Jones offered a good post with regard to a paper he delivered at Wheaton College, in which he likened Christian orthodoxy to an [...]

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I just came across a great post by David Fitch on why Emerging Church people are drawn to deconstructive theology. Actually, this post is a follow up to one he wrote for The Church and Postmodern Culture. In the original post he does a great job of answering the above question and in [...]

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I have people ask me pretty frequently to explain to them what the Emerging Church is and what it is all about. A few others are into the discussion enough to confuse the Emerging Church movement and the group known as Emergent.The other day I came across a paper delivered by Scot McKnight at Westminster [...]

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