Emergent Village is the center of the emergent stream of the emerging conversation. Emergent is a more experimental – and sometimes more liberal-minded — group, influenced by Brian McLaren. Member congregations include Church of the Apostles in Seattle; Vintage Faith in Santa Cruz, Calif.; Solomon’s Porch in Minneapolis; Jacob’s Well in Kansas City, Mo.; and McLaren’s […]

The Emerging Leaders Network is a community of friendship, exploration and theological conversation among people interested in emerging churches and faith communities. They focus primarily on shaping young adults into religious leaders by a “head, heart, hands” philosophy of understanding, application and feeling.

The Acts 29 network is both a site and an international network of churches around the world that hope to inspire others to become disciples by planing churches in new areas. The community follows both traditional and never-before-seen ways of practice in order to meet the needs of a social-media oriented audience.

TheOOZE is a website that provides information regarding evolving spirituality. It’s focus is not only on observing trends in ministry but also encouraging the community to influence the trends themselves.

Sites Unseen is a ZoeCarnate website that gathers and provides easy access to Christian information online and emphasizes “alternative” Christian resources.

The Da Vinci Deception Experience is a new DVD from evangelical publisher Tyndale House based on the earlier book The Da Vinci Deception by Erwin Lutzer (Tyndale, 2004). Tyndale has also repackaged The Da Vinci Code : Fact or Fiction? by Hank Hanegraaff and Paul Maier.

Hernan Prado is the CEO of Hola Latino and the founder, president and CEO of the Alabama Latin American Association.

Emilio A. Parrado is the associate director of the Population Studies Center and a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has done research on the impact of immigration both on communities in the United States and in Mexico, including the responses of public schools to rising numbers of Hispanic students.

Dr. Raleigh Bailey is the founding director of the Center for New North Carolinians, established in 2001 by the University of North Carolina board of governors as a resource to the state university system in immigrant outreach, research, and training.