Nathan Frambach labored an entire morning at the University of Mary's January Leadership Days, trying to define the "emerging church," a phenomenon that is generating both conversation and controversy ...

I didn't intend to write three posts on the emerging/emergent church movement, and I know the subject may be getting old for some readers. But the topic isn't dead for those of us in the church. The ...

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) ...

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 ...

Fuller Seminary theology professor Anderson bases a theology for today's ""emerging"" churches on the church in first-century Antioch. Like that ancient church, today's church may need a ""new ...

The Rev. Bill Warhover sees the role as pastor in the Presbyterian Church as a changing one. And he's OK with that. “What's happening is, as pastors we are stepping away from giving to people and ...

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 ...

Some scholars of religion see the Emerging Church movement as on the decline. In January of this year an Obituary for the Emerging Church was even published at the blog cheaper than therapy. It's a ...

Although there have been several attempts to study the dimensions of the Emerging Church movement (ECM) through close observation and survey data, we know little about its diffusion into American ...