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.

Read a Baptist Press March 25, 2005 article about the debate around the Emerging Church Movement and it’s conflict with other religious communities and beliefs.

Read a CBN.com article about the Emerging Church, its community and it’s practices.

Read an Aug. 25, 2009 article about the Emergent Church Movement, its origins and it’s beliefs.