Companions,
Kimberly Knight was one of the participants at last week's Emergence Now conference at Columbia Theological Seminary, featuring some of the bigger "names" out there-- Phyllis Tickle, Tony Jones, Phillip Clayton, Doug Pagitt, Barbara Brown Taylor and Bruce Reyes-Chow. No United Methodists among the keynoters... oh well. Maybe the others are tired of hearing Methodists continuing to say we were doing all this stuff 250 years ago and, if we could get over our current "glommed" thinking and organizing, are primed to do so again.
I was following the conference on Twitter as it was happening-- couldn't be there myself. And you can at least follow what was tweeted by searching the hashtag #enow.
Anyway, Kimberly Knight today posted her summary/reflection on the event-- and I highly commend her post. From what I could see via the tweets, she's described it very well. You can find her post here: http://ow.ly/138OV
Feel free to comment on her blog post or here about anything there...
Peace in Christ,
Taylor Burton-Edwards
3 comments:
Thanks for this. Seems to me that this was another great experiment in the lab of the life of the Church. The Emergent Church feels to me like the long awaited response of modern people who have finally had the resources to look at all of Church History, decipher where things went wrong and right, start over from this new ground of understanding and allow the Holy Spirit to participate in a low structure form. The prophetic nature of the EC is what will, in the end, be its greatest gift to the traditional denominations. The voice that speaks the beatitudes and gets hands dirty to help enflesh and build this type of living - where the hills are made low and the valleys filled up - all people seeing it together...the poor, the sick, the naked, the imprisoned, the alone. The prophetic voice has all but died there - the prophets in the denominations have been pushed to the fray, which is where the EC has been birthed. Thank God for this breath of fresh air in the life of the Church. It does my heart good to see folks blending liturgy, theology, a prophets message and the grace and grit to attempt to do intentional community. The slide show on misconceptions of the EC was good, and this gals comments were spot on. Peace, +Tom
So this bears asking the questions - will there be an emerging umc 3 this year? Curious minds want to know...
Peace,
deborah
Not this year, Deborah. I'll be able to budget for it again in 2011.
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