Even name tags wouldn’t help…unless they came with multiple appendices and glossaries attached.

Scot McKnight (blog) has adapted his introduction and overview of the Emerging Church (originally given as the opening address of last October’s Student Forum on the Emerging Church at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia) and published it on Christianity Today Online.

There is a monthly emergent cohort meeting for the Philly area that I’ve attended a few times over the past year. (An emergent cohort, for the unitiated, is simply a regular gathering of people interested in or involved in the EC movement to discuss topics related to the concerns of the movement.) The “special guest” [...]

David Wayne (AKA Jollyblogger), with whom I once was delighted to have lunch at Westminster, has announced that he is going to be meeting face-to-face with prominent Emerging Church blogger Stephen Shields for conversation. Three cheers for both of them as they set out to prove naysayers who maintain there is no use for such [...]

Scot McKnight (blog) has managed to place himself in a unique position. He is an orthodox theologian (if I may be so “generously orthodox” to include an Arminian who upholds the Trinity, full divinity of Christ, necessity of a substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection of Christ, the Word-of-God authority of Scripture, etc., as “orthodox”) who [...]

It is now going on two weeks since the Emerging Church Forum sponsored by the Student Association of Westminster Theological Seminary. One of our hopes in putting on that conference was to stimulate thinking and dialog not only between Reformed seminarians and emerging church folk but also within each of those two circles. It was [...]

Rev. Richard “Rick” Phillips has posted his reactions to the recording of Scot McKnight’s address to last week’s Forum on the Emerging Church held by Westminster Theological Seminary’s Student Association. He walks through the talk point-by-point offering his comments along the way. I was pleased to see Rev. Phillips take McKnight’s points seriously. He sees [...]

For me, one of the marks of a good course, conference, or event is its spawning of continued conversation after it’s over. I consider it the best of all possible (seminary) worlds when I have an especially meaningful class right before the lunch break as I can usually count on finding some classmates eager [...]

Rev. Ben Inman, RUF Campus Minister at UNC Chapel Hill, has posted the text of the address he gave last Saturday at Westminster Theological Seminary for the Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church. The talk is titled “The Confession, Culture, and Mission: Why the Westminster Confession is a message that is missionally efficient and [...]

My friend and classmate (and organizer of the recent Emerging Church Forum at Westminster), Tony Stiff, has now made available the PowerPoint from his Thursday night breakout session at the Forum. His presentation is a whirlwind tour of how the more visible portion of the Emerging Church presents itself, it’s public face if you will. [...]