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St. Peter’s Brewery now on Amazon

My novel is now available on Amazon! WOot! Just in time for Christmas ordering.
For those of you who haven’t ordered your copy of the book yet (or want to order 5 copies for your mother), I’ve got a little pointer on how to get free shipping with Amazon.

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Emergent dispatches

A quick summary of emergent Christianity… via
Dispatch 1: Emergents practice a generous orthodoxy that appreciates the contributions of all Christian movements.
Dispatch 2: Emergents reject the politics & theologies of left versus right — they anticipate a more complex reality.
Dispatch 3: The gospel is like lava: no matter how much crust has formed over it, [...]

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Transforming Theology

Tripp Fuller, Tony Jones and a whole list of of other folks are taking off on a pretty interesting journey.
I’m playing catchup after a week off but as I’ve briefly gathered, there will be a conference in mid-March as well as several others throughout the year.
Briefly, “The mission of the Transforming Theology network is to [...]

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Hitler does emergent

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Some of you might have no clue what they’re talking about here. So as a brief background, Tony Jones recently stepped down as the National Coordinator for Emergent Village. After he stepped down, Josh Case (now part of the Nick and Josh Podcast) posted a video suggesting that as part of the idea and [...]

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re: Church Basement Roadshow

Jim Palmer has a good review of the Church Basement Roadshow in the latest edition of Next-Wave.
From Jim’s article:
Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, and Mark Scandrette led the event, which combined an “old time gospel revival” setting with a different kind of message that invited people to imagine a Christianity that was more anchored in the [...]

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Church Basement Roadshow

For those of you who missed it (or want to see it again – like myself) – video of the Church Basement Roadshow is now available online.
The video comes from the Church Basement Roadshow stop at Disciples Fellowship in Birmingham, Alabama.
Church Basement Roadshow from Steve Knight on Vimeo.
HT :: Emergent Village
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Top emergent books

Tall Skinny Kiwi shared his top 5 emergent books for American readers back in June on his blog (just saw the post ).
Here’s his top 5 (plus a few others) ::
1. Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures, by Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs.
2. The New Conspirators, Creating the Future One Mustard Seed [...]

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The marbles are on a roll

Those marbles in my head are rolling around this morning. Lots of thoughts swimming around. Good thoughts I do believe. Maybe heritickle thoughts.
Watched 4 episodes of Tony Jones’ trek across america with Trucker Frank early this morn. Really makes me want to find Jones’ new book, “The New Christians” and read the rest of the [...]

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Tony Jones and Collin Hansen discuss their “movements”

ChristianityToday is sharing an e-mail exchange between Tony Jones and Collin Hansen as they discuss their most recent books and their “movements” within Christianity.
Tony Jones is the national coordinator of Emergent Village and author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. Collin Hansen is editor-at-large of Christianity Today and author of Young, Restless, [...]

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Quote of the day

“Evangelical pastors have to read A New Kind of Christian wrapped in a Playboy cover.”
-Tony Jones
in his latest book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

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