The Story of the Emerging Church Movement

Oct 16, 2023

The podcast explores the Emerging Church Movement, its impact on the American church, and its disappearance. They discuss the origins, motivations, and theological adjustments within the movement. They also reflect on Rachel's role and interview conversations. The hosts invite listeners to participate in their oral history project and discuss upcoming events.

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ANECDOTE

Christianity's 500-Year Upheaval

Phyllis Tickle discusses the cyclical nature of upheaval in Christianity.
She highlights the reconfiguration of Christian forms throughout history, citing the 500-year upheaval of Latinized culture.

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Unsung Heroes of Emergent

Tony Jones expresses concern that lesser-known figures of the emergent church movement are being forgotten.
He mentions individuals like Brad Cecil, Tim Keel, and Tim Condor, emphasizing their significant contributions.

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Emergent: A Bad Word

Josh Gilbert's father, a pastor, considered "emergent" a negative term.
He warned Josh against emergent, viewing it as a progressive threat to evangelicalism.

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I was in Minneapolis speaking at the Festival of Homiletics and ended up at a bottle release party at Surly Brewing with my friend Tony Jones. There, we shared stories from our time in the Emerging Church Movement, what we learned, all the friends we made, and where we’ve all ended up. We decided then to do a class exploring the movement and process our learning with a bunch of its participants. From there, the idea took off, and we decided it would be best to turn it into a podcast series and invite people to contribute to a more significant oral history. In this episode, you will hear about the project, what we’ve been doing, and how you can be a part of it.

EMERGED:A Crowdfunded Podcast to Preserve an Oral History of the Emerging Church Movement – For a decade at the beginning of the 21st century, a small group of pastors, missionaries, and theologians set out to change the church. They were mostly GenXers, mostly men, mostly white, mostly evangelical. They planted churches and wrote books and ran conferences. They were quoted in the New York Times and Time Magazine, and they landed on the cover of Christianity Today and the Christian Century. And then, almost as quickly as it appeared, the emerging church movement disappeared. In this multi-part series launching January 2024, Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller will journey through the electrifying, tumultuous, ever-evolving years of the ECM through interviews, stories, and opinions from some of the movementâ€™s pivotal figures.

WE’LL TACKLE QUESTIONS LIKE:

What were the precursors to the ECM?
What catalyzed the movement?
How cohesive was it, really?
When and why did interest switch from the evangelical church to the mainline?
Did it become too political?
Did the movement ultimately fail, or did it infiltrate and change the church?

GET ACCESS: http://www.emergedpodcast.com

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