No Rising Tide

If you're interested, Dr. Joerg Rieger of SMU's Perkins Divinity School is delivering an address on his book No Rising Tide dealing with Christian ethics and the economy. The address is May 8 at 2:00 PM at Northaven United Methodist Church.

Sojourners Discusses Emergent

The progressive evangelical group Sojourners has hosted an online dialogue about if emergent is open to racial and ethnic diversity. Check it out.

It all started with a rather scathing article in their magazine.

Give it all a read and let us know your thoughts.

A New Kind of Christianity

At our April meeting, we'll start our discussion of Brian McLaren's new book, A New Kind of Christianity. Join us Thursday at 7 at Escape in Allen. We'll begin with a review of "What is the overarching story line of the Bible?" and go from there.

You're welcome even if you've never read a word of McLaren's writings. Hope you can join us.

What defines you as emergent?

In his recent book Deep Church: A third way beyond Emergent and Traditional, author Jim Belcher identifies 7 themes that the emergent church is "protesting" about the traditional church. In general, Belcher says emergents are protesting traditionalists':

1. Captivity to Enlightenment rationalism
2. Narrow view of salvation
3. belief before belonging
4. Uncontextualized worship
5. Ineffective preaching
6. Weak ecclesiology
7. Tribalism

So what about you? Are you concerned about these issues or do other issues define you as an emergent Christian? We'll discuss these issues at our March meeting.

February Meeting will be on 2/18

The forecast for this Thursday evening is Mostly Cloudy and a low of
48 - practically summer compared to last week! Hope you can join us
at Escape on Thursday at 7:00 PM.

The questions we'll be starting with are:


1. How can you be emergent without being perceived as being arrogant?
2. Why be emergent?
3. Why do you believe what you believe?

February 11 Meeting Postponed

As of 5:20 PM Wednesday, the forecast for tomorrow night is for the snow and slush that falls during tonight and tomorrow to start to freeze. So let's postpone the cohort meeting one week until February 18th. Help spread the word! Stay safe.

Cohort Meeting This Thursday 2/11

We will meet this Thursday at 7 at Escape. We'll start with these questions:

1. How can you be emergent without being perceived as being arrogant?
2. Why be emergent?
3. Why do you believe what you believe?

The forecast is for snow...so come back here for any late breaking news on changes to our schedule...