In recent years, the EmergentChurch movement has become a headline-grabbing favorite of the religious media establishment. Emergent leaders’ books and videos line the shelves of religious bookstores. Press coverage of their activities and pronouncements is overwhelmingly favorable. The movement has received national exposure in a two-hour PBS television special and on ABC’s Nightline. Emergents’ influence... Continue Reading

PITTSBURGH, Christian Newswire — “If churches embracing the principle of Sola Scriptura fail to understand and address the concerns voiced in the Emerging Church conversation, we may lose an entire generation of professing believers to a movement seeking to revitalize the faith but infected with a philosophy that kills it,” says Rev. Rutledge Etheridge. Etheridge... Continue Reading

Christianity Today reports in its January 2009 issue that the emergent church/movement may be on the wane or disintegrating. As you know, I made a “non-inspired” prophecy (hence, no stoning if wrong per Deut. 18) that if the emergent movement were still being talked about or influencing things by 2012 or 2013, I would be... Continue Reading

  Emergent leader Brian McClaren says "everything must change," not only websites and titles. Our political candidates seem to agree. I too am witness to enormous changes over my adult life.    I was raised in the heyday of European rationalistic secular humanism, and came as a student to America in 1964 to discover a... Continue Reading

  Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), By Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck, Moody Press, 2008. Reviewed by Jonathan Leeman     "They just don’t get it." I predict that’s what the naysayers of Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck’s new book Why We’re Not Emergent will say. "They don’t understand me"... Continue Reading