If you travel in evangelical circles, you’ve likely heard talk of the “emerging church.” But you still might be confused. What exactly is the emerging church? Here’s my best attempt to describe a ...

Since this blog launched last October one of the alluring conversations has been the nature and definition of the “emerging church.” The debate started when James McDonald declared why he is not ...

BOSTON -- His friends assumed his covert Sunday trips to a cross-town Episcopal church were about a girl, but Rick Bennett was actually looking for some inspiring liturgy. Bennett, then a high school ...

Mary Beth Mathews is assistant professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. She wrote this for the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star. (McClatchy-Tribune) ...

Presenters: Edward P. Hahnenberg, associate professor of theology, Xavier University, and Marti R. Jewell, assistant professor of theology, University of Dallas This conference assessed the most ...

Mention "emerging churches" around a random selection of today's church leaders and half will have no idea what you are talking about while the other half are busy trying to plant one. This book ...

And the Emergent Church is not trying to be a church, or at least not as most of us understand church. I have heard any number of claims that the Tea Party is not a Republican movement, that it's more ...

Peter Rollins is a prominent figure in the Emergent church movement in the United Kingdom. Schooled in philosophy, with several degrees from Queens University in Belfast, Rollins is determined to ...