Why They're Not Emergent - Kevin and Ted on SBE

Erik June 27th, 2008

Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck are young, passionate, surrounded by diversity and engaged in passionate dialog with a postmodern world. So why aren't they emerging or Emergent or…whatever?

Kevin and Ted join us on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. to give us the answer. Use one of the options below to listen.

Kevin DeYoung is the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan. Ted Kluck is a journalist and author. They joined forces to write, Why We're No … (Read More)

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The Emergent Church - Tony Jones on SBE

Erik April 25th, 2008

Want to raise your fundamentalist pastor's blood pressure? Tell him you're emergent. But be prepared to be accused of compromising truth, going liberal or even rubbing idols. There's a lot of confusion and emotion surrounding the emergent church movement, but Steve Brown Etc. is here to help.

The national coordinator of Emergent Village, Tony Jones joins us on this edition of SBE to discuss the emergent phenomenon in the context of his new book, The New Christians: Dispatches f … (Read More)

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Finding the Good Stuff: Discovering The Christian Year

Michael Spencer March 17th, 2008

I grew up in the 1960's in a small city in Western Kentucky among fundamentalist Baptists who were sure their kind were the only Christians on the planet. My ignorance of the broader Christian world was too abysmal to be described with normal adjectives.

When I became aware of other kinds of Christians- around 1972- I was frightened of them. Methodists actually scared me. My best friend was an Episcopalian. He came to my church all the time. I would have sooner asked for a root canal than g … (Read More)

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