Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family, a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. Contact Daly through Focus on the Family vice president of media and public relations Paul Batura.

Tony Jones is an authority on the emerging church movement, postmodernism, youth ministry and church evolution. He is national coordinator of Emergent-US, a network of emerging churches and is theologian-in-residence at Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis. He’s also a volunteer police chaplain in Edina, Minn. He wrote Postmodern Youth Ministry (Zondervan, 2001) and The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of […]

Doug Pagitt is co-founder and executive director of Vote Common Good, a national political nonprofit that aims to mobilize people of faith to participate in civic life. He is the author of, among several books, Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church. Contact via BerlinRosen.

Brian D. McLaren, founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Burtonsville, Md., is a central figure in the movement. He is a lightning rod among emerging thinkers because of his interest in the intersection of faith and progressive politics. His many books on the subject include the popular A New Kind of Christian: A Tale […]

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. He has criticized conservative evangelicals who have spoken against or have remained silent on immigration and argued that the August 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was driven, in part, by anti-immigrant rhetoric. Arrange an interview through the Kairos Co.

Read a Beliefnet article about the differentiation between evangelicals and fundamentalists in their application of the “fundamentals” of faith to the modern world.

Read a Jan. 6, 2006 post about the three broad categories of the Emerging Church Movement– relevants, reconstructuralists and revisionists– and their different focuses and practices.

View the 12 Emerging Church characteristics on the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry’s post.

Read Scot McKnight’s description of the ideals of the Emergent Church Movement, as he clarifies truth from urban legend.