GodBlogCon session on emerging church blogs

I’ll be facilitating a GodBlogCon breakout session this weekend on emerging church blogs. This session will be on Saturday 11/15, 9:00-10:15am, on the campus of Biola University in La Mirada, California. In which building and which room, I’m not sure yet. I think they’re charging a small administrative fee for the map and location.

I am planning on doing 2 or 3 of the following ::

1. I’ll make an impromptu opening introductory remark of 5-10 minutes, with mention of these links at my website, for starters –

• Wikipedia entry for emerging church
• “An Exploration of the Emerging Church of the United States: The Missiological Intent and Potential Implications for the Future” – research paper by Aaron Flores (194 pages PDF)
• Planet Emergent – aggregator of some emerging church bloggers
• A Faith Revolution Is Redefining “Church” – George Barna’s press release for new book on his observations on emerging churches [ht: SmartChristian]
• Emerging Church MP3s — “What is Emerging?: A Conversation about a New Kind of Church” – Grand Rapids Theological Seminary hosted Talking Points, a one-day seminar designed for ministry leaders who desire to reflect critically about ministry in the 21st century. [ht: daveslisteningplace via tallskinnykiwi]
• postmodern breakfast food – remarks from Brian McLaren and Rob Bell one morning
• anewkindofchristian.com – official website for Brian McLaren, one of the leading voices (cf. my unofficial web page)
• McLaren doesn?t like the emerging church, but he’s giving some talks on the emerging church at his home church; MP3s are online – (#1) What is the emerging church? (#2) Missional, Evangelical, Integral; (#3) Artistic; (#4) Monastic and Communal
• Emergent Village – the organic organization facilitating the conversation
• What’s emerging in the church — a Reformation 21 article by Dr. Jeff Jue, a critique from a Reformed perspective, from one of my friend at that
• We Know More Than Our Pastors – a white paper by Tim “e-church” Bednar, describing how the Internet and blogosphere impacts our theology

2. Interview with Aaron “thevoiz” Flores, author of , and Andrew “Tallskinnykiwi” Jones (of whom I am under the impression, or illusion, will be there, in person), who is known to have done some high-level briefing about emerging churches around the world.

3. Open it up for dialogue, or “Q&A” in the venacular of most GodBlogCon attendees.

Also, Aaron “thevoiz” Flores will be doing a videoblog session immediately following at 10:30am, perhaps with a live demo of vlogging. And maybe all new material, too, rumored to be about the Spirituality and Discipline of Vlogging.