If you travel in evangelical circles, you’ve likely heard talk of the “emerging church.” But you still might be confused. What exactly is the emerging church? Here’s my best attempt to describe a ...

Since this blog launched last October one of the alluring conversations has been the nature and definition of the “emerging church.” The debate started when James McDonald declared why he is not ...

Mary Beth Mathews is assistant professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. She wrote this for the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star. (McClatchy-Tribune) ...

“You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life,” says Erwin McManus, ...

Southern Baptist churches in New England have 10,000 more people attending worship now than they did a decade ago. In Ohio, ...

Mention "emerging churches" around a random selection of today's church leaders and half will have no idea what you are talking about while the other half are busy trying to plant one. This book ...

BOSTON -- His friends assumed his covert Sunday trips to a cross-town Episcopal church were about a girl, but Rick Bennett was actually looking for some inspiring liturgy. Bennett, then a high school ...

And the Emergent Church is not trying to be a church, or at least not as most of us understand church. I have heard any number of claims that the Tea Party is not a Republican movement, that it's more ...

What are Emergent Church leaders teaching that has so many of our current generation tuned in to their "doctrine," but tuned out to holy scripture? How have Emergent leaders captured the hearts and ...

Peter Rollins is a prominent figure in the Emergent church movement in the United Kingdom. Schooled in philosophy, with several degrees from Queens University in Belfast, Rollins is determined to ...