Book Review: The New Conspirators

I’ve been looking forward to reading this book ever since I heard it was coming out.  Tom Sine’s work has been widely cited for quite some time, and for good reason.  He’s smart, encouraging, witty, engaging, and kicks your butt, all at the same time.
There are aspects of The New Conspirators that will seem [...]

The Wacky Emerging Church: Reason #2.76

This post is part of a continuing series. You may want to read my list of disclaimers and intro remarks here, if you haven’t done so already.
Reason #2.76: The other white meat
Sad, but true, folks. White dudes with money are still pretty much in control. If you took a poll of emerging church [...]

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 3

Just finished lunch. Attended a workshop on some missional movements going on in Latin America. Very, very exciting stuff. I’m really stoked that much of the renewal of the theology and expressions of church is getting outside of the Western world. Go check out La Red del Camino. I’m really [...]

Where your treasure is . . .

Tonight I (mostly jokingly) asked Michelle if I could spend a couple thousand dollars on the hot new paper-thin, light as a feather laptop that was unveiled today.
But as I reflect briefly before bedtime, I have a growing sense of uneasiness.  Here I sit in luxury, while Kenya, which has already lost somewhere around 700 [...]

Eliacin nails it . . .

In all the buzz and hubbub of the emerging church (a mostly Western/Northern world thing), the voices of the Church Emerging in the global South have not been heard. This is the focus of my school research, so I was delighted to read this:
The rumble of the drums and the joyful voices of our [...]