i’ve decided to go back to blogger

Thank you all for your thoughts and comments. I’m going back to http://faithmaps.blogspot.com though the name will still be “faithmaps blog.” I won’t be going back to using “emergesque.” I’m going back because I was forever wishing to add some kind of code to my template (twitter, shelfari, etc) that the free wordpress.com just wouldn’t [...]

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the buzz begins?

Andrew Jones tantalizingly twitters: “ working on the largest gathering of emerging church leaders in 2008 – country to be announced soon “ Interesting!

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NT Wright and Bart Ehrman are Debating the Problem of Pain

Justin Taylor provides us a helpful metapost to the BeliefNet exchange: Bart Ehrman: How the Problem of Pain Ruined My Faith N.T. Wright: God’s Plan to Rescue Us Bart Ehrman: What About the Actual Suffering? N.T. Wright: What it Looks Like When God Runs the World Bart Ehrman: God’s Kingdom Has Not Come N.T. Wright: [...]

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JI Packer Leaves the Anglican Church of Canada

“However, with deep reluctance and regret we have concluded that we cannot continue the Anglican ministry to which we were ordained under your jurisdiction. The Diocese, under your leadership, has departed from historic, orthodox Anglican teaching and practice. It has departed from what the Primates have unanimously recognized as the standard of teaching of the [...]

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On the Post-Congregationals

“Stephen, You know I love ya, but … I feel like I have to confess … that I am a post-congregational Christian. And I think your overview makes a mistake in mixing post-church (or, I prefer the term post-congregational) Christians with those who are de-churched non-Christians (those who have grown up in Christianity but have [...]

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Of Relatively Inconsequential Significance

Nevertheless, this makes me very happy: Sarah Connor Chronicles Avoids Termination

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LarryNorman.com

Our Metapost on Larry Norman, his life, passing and funeral has gotten a lot of hits.  I noticed yesterday that the LarryNorman.com has been significantly redesigned and it looks great.

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A Public Service Announcement

I read once that there are two types of people: Those who one day lose everything on their hard drive and those who one day lose everything on their hard drive. This weekend I fit both groups. I was hooking up a 7 Port Hub and when I plugged my laptop back up, it threw [...]

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Big Changes at Willow Creek

““Anonymity is not the driving value for seeker services anymore,” says Hawkins. “We’ve taken anonymity and shot it in the head. It’s dead. Gone.” In the past Willow believed that seekers didn’t want large doses of the Bible or deep worship music. They didn’t want to be challenged. Now their seeker-sensitive services are loaded with [...]

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Request for Emerging Church Study

Please help my friend Will Samson study the Emerging Church!  This is for his Ph.D. work and could be helpful to the conversation. He writes: “If you consider yourself part of the conversation/phenomenon that is the Emergent/Emerging Church, I would appreciate ten minutes of your time. I am collecting preliminary data for a more detailed [...]

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