With everyone writing obituaries for the Emerging Church movement, I feel the need to take a timeout to remember some positives about the movement. Although the Emerging Church has been mixed, and in ...

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 ...

The toughest challenge facing mainstream religions has been the rise of so-called “nones,” millennials born between 1981 and 1996 who are unchurched and show no signs of rethinking their lack of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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At The Well, the coffee and donuts come during church services, not afterwards. The new, non-denominational church in Rapid City can look and feel more like a coffeehouse than a church, and that's ...

Passionately, articulately and with sometimes winsome self-confidence, Belcher seeks to chart a “third way” between the often divided factions within the traditional and emerging wings of American ...