Challenging the Critiques of Emergent: The Bastard Child of Evangelicalism

Upfront Disclaimer: I do not speak for anyone on the board at Emergent Village, nor am I assuming the position of spokesperson. I speak from a position of proximity and friendship with emergent. And if you want to put a label on it (something I will hopefully make a point about), then by God, you [...]

Challenging the Critiques of Emergent: We Hate Scripture

Upfront Disclaimer: I do not speak for anyone on the board at Emergent Village, nor am I assuming the position of spokesperson. I speak from a position of proximity and friendship with emergent. And if you want to put a label on it (something I will hopefully make a point about), then by God, you [...]

Church Basement Road Show

As alluded to on The Nick & Josh Podcast, there is going to be a Church Basement Road Show coming to a neighborhood near you. Not only have we preempted Oprah, but now we even got to preempt a trio of heretics. These guys are going to be driving around in an RV frat-boy style [...]

Challenging the Critiques of Emergent: A Public Service Announcement on Friendship

Upfront Disclaimer: I do not speak for anyone on the board at Emergent Village, nor am I assuming the position of spokesperson. I speak from a position of proximity and friendship with emergent. And if you want to put a label on it (something I will hopefully make a point about), then by God, you [...]

Challenging the Critiques of Emergent: Trend/Denomination

Upfront Disclaimer: I do not speak for anyone on the board at Emergent Village, nor am I assuming the position of spokesperson. I speak from a position of proximity and friendship with emergent. And if you want to put a label on it (something I will hopefully make a point about), then by God, you [...]

Challenging the Critiques of Emergent: A White Man’s World

Upfront Disclaimer: I do not speak for anyone on the board at Emergent Village, nor am I assuming the position of spokesperson. I speak from a position of proximity and friendship with emergent. And if you want to put a label on it (something I will hopefully make a point about), then by God, you [...]

Challenging the Critiques of Emergent: Introduction

Here’s the deal. It’s become sort of fashionable to bash Emergent. It used to just be the crazy, old school guys like Dobson, MacArthur, and Carson. I think of these guys like my crazy uncle sitting in the corner who babbles on about conspiracy theories and minorities and the evils of the world. His behavior [...]

The Podcast Site

So I finally got around to updating our site. I’ve been working on it off and on for a couple of months “off-site”. But finally pushed it live last night after getting Nick’s approval. We’re trying to ramp up our website presence so if you haven’t been to it in a while, now might be [...]

A Sustainable Faith Conference: Reflections & Recap

Let me get my 1 complaint out of the way (in addition to my gripe from yesterday). I’m not sure why every conference feels the need to have “worship” music before every session. It’s not just even conferences, but it seems like anytime anybody says the name of Jesus in front of a microphone, that [...]

New Podcast Up With Tony Jones

We’ve got a new podcast up with Tony Jones. The audio is kinda shit. But we were experimenting with Shapevine’s new recording features. If you can make it past the first 5 minutes of the interview, it gets much better. Better being a relative term.
We’re also working towards a self-fulfilling prophecy of becoming the Jerky [...]