A Post-Restorationist Powwow [helenistic graffiti 4.0]

28Nov08

Now that the smoke has cleared, I thought I’d share a winsome invitation that my lovely assistant Helen handcrafted back in August. This fine piece of artwork was for an off-the-map conversation among missional-minded folk at ACU’s Summit this past September. Dubbed “A Post-Restorationist Powwow,” it turned out to be an inspiring evening with [...]

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Tags: ACU Summit, Alexander Campbell, barton stone, Brian McLaren, emergent, missional, post-restorationist, restoration movement, stone-campbell movement

signs of emergence in the Ham

09Sep08

fellow post-restorationists, as if one of them needed a nametag
signs of emergence are everywhere. so much going on right now. i want to share stories and news with the locals in the area who are on board with the emergent conversation or whatever you call it.
first, Greg had a great post on the [...]

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Tags: emerging church, emergent, Brian McLaren, disciples fellowship, Birmingham Emergent Cohort, birmingham alabama, Pete Rollins, Phyllis Tickle

drum circle dancing to the kyngdm rhythm

23Aug08

this summer at our beach retreat, we talked about cultivating a kyngdm rhythm—getting in sync and in step with the movement of God in our day-to-day lives. so to help us get a sense for what the rhythm of God is all about, we had a drum circle. and how can you [...]

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Tags: Brian McLaren, kingdom of God, dance, disciples fellowship, drum circle, rhythm

[v] emerging then, emerging now: Barton Stone and the post-restorationists

04Aug08

a fellow post-restorationist, he‘ll be speaking at ACU’s Summit in September
Without argument, the Churches of Christ departed from Barton Stone’s way long ago and pursued the “hard style” of the “radicalizing” Campbell.[31] Yet there is of late a sense of return—whether intentional or not—to propensities more aligned with Stone. This “Post-Restorationist” movement [...]

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Tags: Adam Ellis, barton stone, Brian McLaren, Dallas Willard, emergent, emerging church, Fajita, missional, post-restorationist, stone-cambell movement

[1ntro] emerging then, emerging now: Barton Stone and the post-restorationists

08Jul08

the man, the exile, the forerunner
If you’re an emerging underling like me, you do what missiologists/anthropologists with PhD’s from Fuller tell you. So the next few posts will be pieces from a paper I wrote that started with some research I did in graduate school as Chris Flanders’ graduate assistant. Initially, [...]

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Tags: barton stone, Ben Cheek, Brian McLaren, Chris Flanders, church planting, Doug Foster, emerging church, Greg Newton, Jared Looney, Kester Smith, missional, Nic Acosta, post-restorationist, restoration movement, stone-campbell movement