Resource Spotlight: "The Boundary-Breaking God" by Danielle Shroyer
By Amy Moffitt: Danielle Shroyer wants to change the way you think about God. In The Boundary-Breaking God, Shroyer proposes a central thesis: that God is about expansion, about movement, about breaking down walls and muddying boundaries. In seven brief chapters, she takes this thesis and shows us what it looks like when applied to issues of social justice, diversity, church politics, pastoral ministry and even eschatology. She calls upon the reader to live into the resurrection,

Luthermergent Gathering Recap
By Tim Snyder: In October, about 30 folks (some in and out) gathered in Edina, Minnesota, as part of Christianity21. The time was filled with conversation, new friends, old friends, hard questions, prayer and trying to figure out if we should even have a Luthermergent “network.” Thursday we gathered together leaders of communities to talk about their contexts and about what they’re learning. We asked that difficult and often elusive question, “so why Lutheran?” and noticed how many of our Luthermergent communities are led by folks who are adult converts to Lutheranism. Weird, right? That evening we headed over to celebrate the launch of Sparkhouse and much needed

Save the House of Mercy Podcast
“What happened to the podcast?” We get emails asking this pretty regularly, along with comments like, “I found the House of Mercy sermon podcast at a time when I really needed to hear something new, thank you, thank you, thank you.” “Since discovering the sermon audio files on the House of Mercy website, I’ve been getting some church right here at home. Not every day, but, I confess, sometimes as much as three times a day.” Each weekly HoM podcast, gets an average of about 500 listens in a 12-month period, that’s like 26,000 a year. But, as may podcast listeners know, the podcast has been down or haltingly up for the last nine months. This is due t

Follow the Moltmann Conversation Online
The 2009 Emergent Village Theological Conversation with Jurgen Moltmann begins today in Chicago, Illinois. The conference runs September 9-11, and you can follow updates from the event using the Twitter feed below (#moltmann): #moltmann

Moving Forward: Hopes for the Future of Emergent Village [1]
Continue reading a special letter about the future of Emergent Village »