This is an older web page of things I found about what followers of Christ and churches are doing in a postmodern world.
Articles
- See Standout Articles On Following Jesus in Postmodern Context for latest articles [courtesy of Sites Unseen]
- Mohler comments on outgrowing Christianity, countering the John Killinger’s Ten Things I Learned Wrong From a Conservative Church
- Documentary, “The Changing Face of Worship”, examines church outreach to postmodern culture aired on ABC tv affiliates
- Roseville’s Adventure church is state-of-the-art and big on faith
- Man Happier About Switch to Mac than Conversion to Christianity — satirical parody from The Holy Observer (Sept 2003) — please don’t forget your sense of humor!
- To say that college does something to the average student’s religion is to state a truth which will be conceded by anyone who has given the matter a moment’s thought. Nine young men and women out of ten who will receive their degrees this June would probably admit, if they were called to testify, that education has acted as a poison to their faith. (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1995; republished this 1932 article)
- Younger pastors ask: Is preaching out of touch? (ABPNews 2/20/04)
- Hip New Churches Pray to a Different Drummer (NYTimes 2/18/04, login req’d)
- the un-churches – Colorado’s versions of emerging churches [cached; cf. mentions at envoymagazine and razormouth]
- Sharing Christ with the confused – cites a few characteristics about engaging spiritual conversations, from a Southern Baptist perspective
- AP article circulates as: ‘Emergent church’ gets attention (Times Daily, AL) and Alternative worship mixes past, present (Fort Worth Star Telegram), Churches reconnecting with youth (The Argus), ‘Ancient future faith’ churches appeal to young (The Register-Guard), ‘Emergent church’ draws young: System crosses denominational lines, ties into ancient rituals (Ledger-Enquirer), ‘Emergent church’ calls young to worship (The
Telegraph) + Jason Evans’ blog about the article - Postmodern Christian thinkers imagine new church models (Jacksonville.com, Sept 2003) [also at Ledger-Enquirer]
- Whole new Sunday vibe (St. Petersburg Times, Oct 3, 2003)
- The Dick Staub Interview: Eddie Gibbs Reconsiders Gen X Churches (Christianity Today, Jan. 2003)
- Pomo Ponderings: 10 Questions about Postmodern Ministry by Kevin Miller (Leadership Journal, April 2003)
- Is Pomo Nomo? A postmodern pastor reaches out to the Mod Squad. by Chris Seay (Leadership Journal, February 2003)
- Nomo Pomo?A Postmodern Rant: Why we can and should talk about something else, and follow-up Pomos vs. Mods – The Smackdown, both by Kevin Miller (Leadership Journal, 2003)
- Prof writes about sharing faith in a radically changing culture (Baptist Press, Oct 2003)
- The Dick Staub Interview: Chris Seay (Christianity Today, Sept. 2002)
- How multi-cultural is the postmodern church? Really. (Next Wave, Mar. 2001)
Blogs
- A Generous Orthodoxy – conversations about the book by Brian McLaren
- urban onramps : Rudy Carrasco rants + raves
- jordoncooper.com
- tallskinnykiwi.com
- e-church.com
- willzhead – Will Samson
- emergesque – Stephen Shields
- ianua.org and her book Stumbling Toward Faith: My Longing To Heal From The Evil That God Allowed
- real live preacher and his book Reallivepreacher.com
- Emerging Church Blogs – aggregator of more than 50 emergent bloggers (formerly Planet Emergent) [ … too many to list – above are a few bloggers to get you stsrted]
Links
- Emergent Village : network among missional leaders
- theooze.com : conversations for the journey
- next-wave.org : church & culture e-zine
- The Vine : facilitating conversations between Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodoxes
- Tribal Generation : network of emerging church expressions
- allelon.net : a fellowship of churches
- Revolution of Love : Gen X Catholics
- Sites Unseen – Earth’s Mightiest Alternative Christian Link Portal [thousands more links than I could possibly list here]
