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The place of absolute truths in a postmodern world—two views.
It's All About Who, Jesus? | If worship is for God, why are so many songs about us?
Emerging Values | The next generation is redefining spiritual formation, community, and mission.

Other Christianity Today articles about A New Kind of Christian and Emergent include:

The Virtue of Unoriginality | The old kind of Christian is the best hope for church renewal. (April 04, 2002)
The Postmodern Moment | Are Christians prepared for ministry after modernism's failure? (June 18, 2002)
A Story Darwin Might Love | Brian McLaren's evolutionary interpretation of the faith promises more than it delivers, but what it delivers is good enough. (April 14, 2003)
A Newer Kind of Christian | Brian McLaren's sequel to A New Kind of Christian touches other tenets of faith. (March 26, 2003)

Our sister publication, Leadership journal, recently ran a profile of Rob Bell's preaching.

A New Kind of Christian has its own website.

Some of the more popular emergent type of churches include: Mars Hill Bible Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Solomon's Porch, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mars Hill Church, Seattle, Wash.; ecclesia, Houston, Texas; and Mosaic, Los Angeles, Calif.

To start your own postmodern conversation or find out more about Emergent, you can become a friend of Emergent Village, Emergent's non-movement.

However, much of the emerging church conversation is done on the Internet. While there are too many to sites and weblogs to list, here are a few:

Next-wave—updated monthly, this site has articles and a weblog by its publisher, Charlie Wear, a grandfather who has a skateboarding ministry.
The Ooze—has articles, news, blogs, and plenty of links "to create environments where church leaders (traditional teachers/theologians as well as emerging storytellers/artists) can converse about and collaborate on resources and experiences."
EmergingChurch.info—has articles and blogs, and calls itself a "touching place for the emerging church."
Vintage Faith—has articles, music and book discussions, and is part of Vintage Church in Santa Cruz, California.

Books & Culture articles about emergent and A New Kind of Christian include:

Let's Get Personal | Yes, the church needs to get past modernity's impersonal techniques. But adding the prefix post doesn't solve anything
Faithfully Dangerous | Christians in postmodern times
Reformed or Deformed? | Questions for postmodern Christians
Post-Evangelicalism | Last in a series of responses to Brian McLaren's book, A New Kind of Christian.

Leadership journal has also run a number of articles on emergent and postmodern thought:

My Emergent Guilt | How did I get here, dancing off-beat, and out of touch?
Has the Emergent Church Emerged? | When newspapers pick up on a religion story, there's a good chance it's old hat to insiders. So now that the Denver Post and the Press-Enterprise of inland Southern California have written stories on emergent churches, are they really still emerging?
Nomo Pomo—a Postmodern Rant | Why we can and should talk about something else.
Pomo Ponderings | 10 Questions about Postmodern Ministry
Is Pomo Nomo? | A postmodern pastor reaches out to the Mod Squad.
How to Evangelize Today | Reaching people who think negatively about Christianity. An interview with Brian McLaren.

Books & Culture Corner recently ran an obituary on the founder of postmodern deconstruction, Jacques Derrida.


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