I’m working on editing the dozens of pages of notes from today’s sessions. In the meantime, here is an album of photos I took at the forum today.

WTS Emerging Church Forum 2006

Already overnight some good “takes” on the first day of Westminster’s forum on the Emerging Church movement have…um….”emerged.”
Fellow WTS student Art Boulet has his own notes on McKnight’s first lecture, along with some critique.
The Sojourner interacts with Scot’s talk even more critically.
The Tall Skinny Kiwi, named by both McKnight and forum organizer Tony Stiff as [...]

Presented by Dr. Scot McKnight at the Westminster Theological Seminary Emergent Church Forum, 10/26/06 1:00 p.m.
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What Is the Emerging Church? & Misnomers Surrounding the Emerging Church
Dr. Scot McKnight [...]

I’ll be organizing a live blog for this fourm, with simulblogging here on Sacred Journey. Westminster students: You are invited to a special Inter-Seminary Dialogue between Westminster Theological Seminary students and Biblical Seminary students on how to effectively reach the postmodern culture, 5 p.m. Friay at the WTS Cafe. Dinner will be provided; no charge!
Eternal [...]

In his blog post “Pews, Pulpits, Pastors, Preaching, and Other Things that Can Get in the Way of the Church ‘Being’ the Church,” Dan Kimball once again raises a question that I have not been able to get away from since I read (no, more like was hit up side the head by) Mark Strom’s [...]

In preparation for the upcoming conference on the Emerging Church to be held at Westminster Theological Seminary I do not think you could do better than An Emerging Church Primer by Justin Taylor. This article is one of the most fair and balanced critiques of the movement from a conservative Reformed perspective that I have [...]

My friend and classmate Anthony Stiff (blog: Sets ‘n’ Service) has announced an outline for the Westminster Fall Contemporary Issues Conference on the Emerging Church which he originated and organized. The conference is scheduled for October 26 -28 at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, PA. Speakers include Scot McKnight, Michael Horton, John Franke, and Westminster’s [...]

Yeah…right.
For some time now I’ve been intrigued with the idea of the group blog. I’ve done this solo gig for over two years now. Though I’m far from tired of Sacred Journey, I can also see the advantage of a team approach. So I sat by the phone and waited. Gregg from Common Grounds Online [...]

New movements that challenge the status quo within any culture tend to generate highly polarized camps who set up on opposite mountains and trade missile exchanges across the valley in between. So it has been with the so-called emergent church movement. On the one mountain we have groups such as the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, [...]

The blogosphere has reached a mature (or immature?) enough stage now that each week seems to bring some point of controversy that starts in one blog and then quickly ripples through nearly every blog within the particular subculture slice of the overall blogdom. This week’s rip tid in the Christian blog slice is particularly interesting [...]