I have recently heard two speakers address the challenge of ministry with postmoderns: Karen Ward, Lutheran pastor of Seattle’s Church of the Apostles (a shared ministry with the Episcopal Church, USA) whose ministry embraces the alt worship paradigm, and Jim Kitchens, pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN, whose former congregation in California hadContinue reading “Lutheran Charisms and Ministry with Post-Moderns”
Category Archives: Emergent
Lutheran Charisms
In my previous post I was thinking about the charisms, the gifts, that Lutheranism offers to the church and world, in light of recent conversations about postmodern ministry (read that post before you read this one). What follows is a slightly reworked version of an old post from September: Lutherans know that God comes downContinue reading “Lutheran Charisms”
Emerging Churches
Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures is a new, and some say, definitive book on the Emergent Church movement. I’ve only read the introduction, but this book stands out from other books about postmodern ministry and the emerging church that I’ve looked through in the bookstore in one important but simple way –Continue reading “Emerging Churches”
An Emergent Critic
Thanks to Lutherpunk for finding and posting the link to this valid critique of the Emergent movement. As all three of my frequent readers know, I am intrigued by and interested in the Emergent movement. But I have found it to be theologically lacking at times (my early posts on the topic wondered if theContinue reading “An Emergent Critic”
My Emergent Kick
Thousands of you have commented, lamented, and otherwise vented in remorse and regret that I haven’t posted on the theme of the Emergent Church movement in several weeks. OK, perhaps not thousands. Actually, nobody has. Other things have caught my attention in recent weeks, but I’ll be back to commenting about the Emergent movement soon. Continue reading “My Emergent Kick”
The Lutheran Zephyr 