The fad-driven church chugs along like an snowball adding mass along the way. We are bombarded with a slew of comments and thoughts regarding the Emerging Church from Reformation 21, Modern Reformation, The Christian Century, Christianity Today and even PBS as they all elbow their way to a place at the proverbial round table of “conversation and dialoge”.
I’d like to offer a lotta links regarding the subject from a variety of perspecitves (because of course, I wouldn’t claim to be able to know objective truth well enough to say who is right or wrong in the discussion; I’m just happy we’re having the discussion at all, isn’t that the point….):
Read Wikipedia’s entry on the Emerging Church.
Read Dallas Willard’s collected articles on postmodernism.
Read The Emergent Matrix by Scott Bader-Saye.
Read What’s Emerging in the Church by Jeffrey Jue.
Read Cool Kids Church by Eric Landry.
Read Derek Thomas’ editorial concerning the Emergent Church.
Read The Emerging Church by D.A. Carson.
Read The Emergent Mystique by Andy Crouch.
Read Bugs Bunny Meets Brian McClaren by Russell Moore.
Read What Should We Think of the Emerging Church (pt. 1) by Al Mohler.
Read What Should We Think of the Emerging Church (pt. 2) by Al Mohler.
Read Al Mohler’s critique of McClaren’s Generous Orthodoxy.
Read PBS’ interview with Brian McClaren.
Read part one of PBS’ piece on the Emergent Church.
Read part two of the PBS piece.
Read my thoughts on the emerging church growth movement.
Visit Brian McClaren’s website.
Visit Leonard Sweet’s website.
Visit Dan Kimball’s blog.
Visit the Emergent Village website.
Buy (and then read) The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball.
Buy (and then read) Becoming Conversant… by D.A. Carson.
Buy (and then read) The Church in Emerging Culture by Leonard Sweet et al.
Buy books by Brian McClaren.