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Tony Jones “The New Christians” at Bookpeople

March 22, 2008 – 8:00 am
Posted in Thoughts on Community
Tagged church, emergent, emerging church, institutional church, Obama, race, the new christians, tony jones
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Had the pleasure of listening to Tony Jones read and talk about his new book last night. I also found the link to video below from my friend Bob at The Corner and as I watched couldn’t help but wonder if the conversations between the institutional church and the emerging church are something like this…

Donald Miller on CNN

January 25, 2008 – 10:59 am
Posted in Thoughts on Community
Tagged christ, church, CNN, Donald Miller, faith, love, postmodernity
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In his book, Miller describes his disdain for the us vs. them mentality between Christians and non-Christians.

“I felt, once again, that there was this underlying hostility for homosexuals and Democrats and, well, hippie types. I cannot tell you how much I did not want liberal or gay people to be my enemies. I liked them,” he wrote. “The real issue in the Christian community was that (love) was conditional … You were loved in word, but there was, without question, a social commodity that was being withheld from you until you shaped up.”

For the complete article, go to http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/01/24/best.selling.christian.ap/index.html?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

Shapevine Webcasts

January 9, 2008 – 11:29 am
Posted in Connecting Technologies
Tagged church, emerging church, missional, missional church
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Passing this along… Greetings Shapevine Friends,We have several FREE Webcasts in January at www.shapevine.com, starting this week. It is a tremendous menu of some of the top thinkers and leaders in the emerging missional church. We invite you to join in and watch, ask questions, chat, and poll. Just visitwww.shapevine.com at the dates and times listed below and enter the Webcast area.

Shapevine Webcast Schedule

January 2008

DATE	TIME	HOST/GUEST
10^th	4pm EST	Lance Ford / Dan Kimball
17^th	4pm EST	Lance Ford / Dave Ferguson
21^st	4pm EST	Sally Morgenthaler / Joseph Myers
22^nd	4pm EST	Leonard Sweet
23rd	4pm EST	Nick Fiedler / Tony Jones
24^th	4pm EST	Lance Ford / Tri Robinson
TBA	4pm EST	Lance Ford / Steve Sjogren
31^st	4pm EST	Lance Ford / Ryan Bolger