Category Archives: emergent

Do We Need a New Kind of Christianity?

I just read a very informative interview that Robert Gelinas (Jazz Theologian) had with Brian McLaren on the subject of his most recent book, A New Kind of Christianity. I think Mr. McLaren provides some important and perceptive insights related … Continue reading

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Neo-Calvinism’s Common Grace and the Emergent Church

Vince Bacote from Wheaton College presented a paper at the Evangelical Theological Society and then again at Covenant College entitled A Neo-Kuyperian Assist to the Emergent Church which Bob Robinson posted on his Vanguard Church blog (one of my favorites!). … Continue reading

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Rethinking Evangelism/Witnessing – Part 1

  For some time now, but especially during the past year or so, I have been doing some serious rethinking about how we present the gospel–aka do evangelism–at Tall Turf. Somewhere along the line, we seemed to take more of … Continue reading

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A Bigger Gospel

Scot McKnight’s, Embracing Grace – A Gospel for All of Us, has been an encouraging and enlightening reading experience for me. The gospel has been too narrowly defined by too many–mostly evangelicals–and desperately needs to be restored to its much … Continue reading

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Jesus Creed Blog

Scot McKnight, author of–among a number of other books–Embracing Grace and Jesus Creed, also has one of the most informative and interesting blogs from an evangelical scholar and voice in the emergent movement. I now have his site as one … Continue reading

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Emerging Evangelism 1

I recently discovered Scot McKnight’s blog. Scot is a professor at North Park University. He is both evangelical and an active participant in the “emergent” conversation and movement. He has several entries on his “Jesus Creed” blog at www.jesuscreed.org dealing … Continue reading

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