“FIRST-PERSON: Understanding the emerging church”
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.
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“What is the Emerging Church?”
View the 12 Emerging Church characteristics on the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry’s post.
“Five Streams of the Emerging Church”
Read Scot McKnight’s description of the ideals of the Emergent Church Movement, as he clarifies truth from urban legend.
“Leaders call ‘Emerging Church Movement’ a threat to Gospel”
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.
“The Emerging Church Explained”
Read a CBN.com article about the Emerging Church, its community and it’s practices.
“Defining The Emergent Church Movement”
Read an Aug. 25, 2009 article about the Emergent Church Movement, its origins and it’s beliefs.
“The Paradox of Emerging Leadership”
Read a Christianity Today blog post on Out of Ur about pastor Dan Kimball’s thoughts on leadership in the emergent church from March 7, 2006.
Karen Torjesen
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
Michael Allen Williams, an adjunct religions professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, has written on gnosticism, ancient texts and religious secrecy.