SPST Emergent

Every Thing Must Change Conference...

Greetings All...

Brian McLaren will be in town this weekend for his Everything Must Change Conference. This tour is presented by Deep Shift, and Saint Paul School of Theology is a local sponsor. The event is this Friday and Saturday (April 25th-26th). Registration info can be found here. Registration for Seminary students is $35. More info on the conference here.

As well, Tim Keel will be leading a pre conference as will Mike King. Information on Tim's Intuitive Leadership conference here. Information on Mike's Prelude conference here.

If you plan to be around people in the next 5-10 years then you need to take in these conferences!!!

Resources from Nov. 7th Gathering

At the November 7th lunch gathering we spent quite a bit of our time reviewing a series of dichotomous characteristics that can be seen between modernity and postmodernity. The majority of these comparisons come from Tim Keel, Tony Jones, Dan Kimball, and Brian McLaren. The graphic representations are pulled from a variety of resources and personal experiences, and try to capture the holistic nature of the exploration of 'kingdom life' (Doug Pagitt) in the postmodern context...

Here is the powerpoint that we looked at (extremely under-developed, but a fair starting point...)

Download spst_e_101.ppt

Lunch Gathering

Greetings Friends...

I have reserved room three in the Holter Center, on Tuesday November 7th, for an impromptu lunch conversation...We have no formal agenda other than spending a short amount of time discussing the recent UMerging Colloquy" held a month ago at Church of the Resurrection. I you have any thoughts, questions, or observations regarding the engagement of mission and ministry in the context of the emerging postmodern culture we hope you will join us.

A few Resources....

Emergent Village

Umerging Colloquy

EmergingUMC Blog

A recent Article Published by Dr. Knight... Click Here

Feel Free to post a comment or question....

Origin of Terms Part 1 and 2

Dan Kimball wrote two blog posts, in April, that dealt with the terms "Emergent" and "Emerging" as they serve illuminate current conversations about engaging mission and ministry in the 21st century... Both posts contain a great deal of historical information, and both serve as one persons attempt to articulate the current use and recent evolution of the terms...

(click here for) Origin of the terms "Emerging" and "Emergent" church - Part 1

Excerpt... "I was inspired to take a few moments from reading Marko's post this morning called "This is Emergent" which is great as it expresses some of the metaphor of the meaning of the actual word emergent.

However - since I get asked this so incredibly often "Where did the term 'emerging church' start?" or what is the difference of "Emerging" or "Emergent" that I thought I would continue Marko's wondering of where the terms originated and also have a post I can then refer people to who ask me this a lot. To some you may not care at all about things like this, but for me it will help putting it here and then referring people to it who ask me."....

(click here for) Origins of the terms "Emerging" and "Emergent" church - Part 2

Excerpt... "I started writing what I understand as the origins of the terms "the emerging church" and "emergent" or "the emergent church" in the previous blog entry which was Part 1.

With all the wondering about the origins of the names and even web sites, I was motivated to look up web sites to see when they were first started in figuring out the time period when these terms were being used. Tony Jones suggested I post these dates here for those wanting to know more about timing and origins." ....