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 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.

Karen Torjesen, professor of Women’s Studies in Religion and early Christianity, is dean at the school of religion at Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.

Michael Allen Williams, an adjunct religions professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, has written on gnosticism, ancient texts and religious secrecy.

Mary Rose D’Angelo teaches theology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. She has written extensively about early Christianity and women in Scripture and specifically about Mary Magdalene’s identity.

Pamela Thimmes is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton and past chair of the Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible section within the Society of Biblical Literature. She has written about trends in research on Mary Magdalene.