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Loving Understanding

I love, love, love this post over at the Emergent Village blog. It is a really great articulation of why we see so much misunderstanding and presumption when there are dialogues between those who would call themselves emergent christians and those who would call themselves more traditional protestant or evangelical christians. The the discussion going [...]

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Unhealthy Conversation

Nick kick-started some really great conversations today.
And randomized iTunes took me (probably by the leading of the Spirit or something) to part of a conversation between a couple of the “big bad wolves” of what is wrong with Emergent Village according to some folks. Doug Pagitt was relating an experience he had at an Emergent [...]

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Christine Sine on Gardening and God

Christine Sine has written a wonderful post on gardening and spirituality over at the Emergent Village Blog.
In our own backyard garden I just planted about 20 tiny stalks of asparagus that have grown from seed over the last three weeks. Also the onions and garlic have begun to break through the soil. It is remarkable [...]

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What Is Missional: A Story of Contrasts

This post is a contribution to the Missional Synchroblog organized by Rick Meigs.
It held promise. Honestly, I had held out hope. As much as I had had issues with the direction of the place in the past, I had never heard a blatant rejection of the type of Christianity that I hold dear. In all [...]

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