emerging

One size fits all?

Joe Manafo just sent me the documentary he made with Nathan Colquhoun, called One Size Fits All? What is God doing on the fringes of Canadian culture? Flying under the radar of pop-Christianity, experimental churches are quietly establishing genuine Kingdom outposts in settings both feared and forgotten. ‘One Size Fits All?’ uncovers the obscure story [...]

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Sweet Linkage

The kids at Simple Way are going to print with Conspire Magazine My friend Nathan drove down to Michagan and writes a great reflection on Rob Bell’s latest – drop like stars tour The coming evangelical collapse? and the Christianity Today response Deepak vs. Driscoll on nightline Interesting live twitter streams twistori, overheard.it, and of [...]

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Being Asian…

Some thoughts that have been percolating on being Asian… I’m Chinese. I don’t think I realized it till about grade three. I have faint memories of myself squeezing my nose in the mirror in hopes that it wasn’t so flat. Race itself can be a type of poverty Is the asian model minority myth, a [...]

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Belief…

See here for more amusing emergent-see po-motivators for emerging christians.

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Happening Gatherings…

This Saturday, I’ll be at the Cultivate Gathering – for those who are interested in church planting or creating mission-shaped churches.  Let me know if you’re interested. But if I was still a student, I’d be at this. It’s modeled very much after the TED conferneces and it’s right in the heart of Toronto.  They’ve [...]

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Ordinary Radicals

If anyone’s up for film & coffee this friday, The Ordinary Radicals is screening at the Bloor Cinema at 7:00pm. Let me know if you’re interested. The film features interviews with: Becky Garrison, Shane Claiborne, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, Rob Bell, John Perkins, Brooke Sexton, Michael Heneise, St. Margret Mckenna, Logan Laituri, Zack [...]

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End of the emerging church?

An article out of Christianity Today has been stirring some buzz – R.I.P. Emerging Church Supposedly Dan Kimball, Erwin McManus, and Scot McKnight are starting up a new missional network that will have it’s orthodox theological foundation based on the Lausanne Covenant in an attempt to get away from the emerging/emergent labels. It’s amazing how in a world [...]

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The multiplying church

I just finished Bob roberts Jr.‘s The Multiplying Church. I hope it’s on the to-read list for every church leader in North America. It’s not quite as technical as Stetzer‘s Planting Missional Church’s, less dense and cerebral than Hirsch‘s Forgotten Ways, and a bit more strategic than Cole‘s Organic Church (All of which are excellent [...]

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