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Books: The Great Emergence, Phyllis Tickle. Baker Books, 2008. If you can only read one book about the shifts occurring in religious life today, this is it.
A New Kind of Christian, Brian McLaren. Jossey-Bass, 2001. This is the book that catalyzed the conversation, and has a very clear and accessible explanation of the shift from modernism to post-modernism.
Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures, Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger. Baker Academic, 2005. This is the first scholarly book on emergent churches. Gibbs and Bolger describe the movement which they studied through surveying and interviewing practitioners. A field guide, already outdated, but nothing has replaced it in breadth of study or scope of analysis.
On the Web:
This website is a portal to the US emergent conversation. Links, archives, explanations.
www.emergingwomen.blogspot.com Gathering the voices of emerging women leaders in the US.
The gathering place for the growing conversation within the US Episcopal church regarding the emergent church movement.
www.emergentwestmichigan.blogspot.com For those who would like to know more about the emergent cohort in greater Grand Rapids, attend events, etc. Links to local bloggers, congregations, etc.
http://blog.beliefnet.com/tonyjones/ The blog of Tony Jones, the first National Coordinator for Emergent Village and author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier.
http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/index.asp?id=1 This is the homepage for the Fresh Expressions movement which has been launched as a cooperative venture by the Church of England and the Methodist Church in the UK.
This recently launched, UK-based site is “for all involved with fresh expressions of church - practitioners, people in training, encouragers, supporters and researchers.” |
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