UPDATE: I see this post is getting an unusual amount of traffic. If you are aware of other online ec histories, please let me know in comments and I’ll add it to this post.
Steve Knight draws our attention to Jason Mitchell’s multi-part personal history of the ec conversation in the States
Jason was an important early leader in the org that would eventually morph into emergent village.
Other emerging church histories online:
- NEW: A Short History and Explanation of the Wider Emerging Church by Alan Creech
- NEW: The History and Streams of the Emerging Church (audio) by Darrin Patrick (Thanks to Rick in comments)
- Andrew Jones’ history with the ec and also see this post.
- Dan Kimball: Origin of the Terms “Emerging” and “Emergent” Church – Part 1 and Part 2
- Emergent Village’s Tony Jones offers a history of “the emergent church” on dj chuang’s blog
- I offered a comment regarding a narrow slice of the history in 2004 treating The Nexus of Emerging Church and the Traditions of Calvinism – also see Reformergent
- in 2004 folks were already talking about the post-emerging church
Umm, Stephen, minor correction: It should say Jason Mitchell (not Kevin Mitchell) …
I’d change it, if I were you. You don’t want El Mol hunting you down in the blogosphere
Thanks for the link love, BTW.
yikes! thanks for the catch; it’s been corrected.
I can roll with Kevin. thanks for the shout out.
I found this audio recap on the history of emerging by Darrin Patrick informative:
http://www.journeyon.net/sermon/session-one-the-history-and-streams-of-the-emerging-church/
Beyond just the history aspect, Steve McCoy posted a whole set by Darrin Patrick on emerging:
http://www.stevekmccoy.com/reformissionary/2007/11/darrin-patrick.html
[...] weekend listening to Darrin Patrick’s The History and Streams of the Emerging Church which I mentioned a few days ago along with a few other emerging church [...]
Where is info on Karen Ward? She is one of the pioneers here in the USA.
Hi queermergent,
It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed all the treatments listed and I can’t confirm she isn’t listed but if she’s not, she has definitely been a significant leader in the movement.
stephen
It would appear these links are no longer available. Do you have any other links to the history of the Emerging Church? Thanks! Proliferate Truth.