Church in Emerging Culture; Five Perspectives
I had the idea for this book - on the relationship of church to culture, and especially emerging postmodern culture - and proposed it to Emergent/YS. I think it will be an important book - helping turn potentially divisive issues into shared concerns.
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Adventures in Missing the Point
This was a book I had been thinking about writing for a couple of years. When I brought it to EmergentYS, they suggested Tony Campolo as a coauthor. We divvied up the chapters, and then each of us wrote a response to the other's chapters. Tony disagrees with me on several points, which is part of what makes the book interesting and fun, I think. We've gotten really positive response on this book, especially from people in "the Christian subculture" who feel it kicks some doors down and opens some windows for needed fresh air.
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A is For Abductive
This book, coauthored with Len Sweet and Jerry Haselmayer, is set up like a dictionary: A is for ... B is for ... It's not heavy reading, but attempts to deliver some important content in short chunks of intense (and sometimes light-hearted) prose. Several entries (like "Deconstruction") tackle difficult terms and seek to show their relevance for life and ministry in the emerging culture. It was a blast to work with Len on the content, with Jerry focusing on "epictivities" for groups.
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More Ready Than You Realize
This is a book about sharing your faith. It's based on a series of emails exchanged between a bright and sincere young seeker and me, and its goal is to help people learn how/to be "spiritual friends" to others who are searching for a faith that is real.
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Response to Silas Bishop’s “Community as the Goal (and therefore the means) of mission”
“It is impossible for one to baptize oneself,” Silas Bishop says (p. 12) in this helpful paper. But there is a scene in Robert Duvall’s film “The Apostle” where the main character does just that. Having been alienated from his community through an outburst of anger that resulted in a murder, this troubled yet believing character flees the consequences of his crime, and in a secluded slough, baptizes himself privately “in the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and in the name of Jesus,” a clever baptismal formula that encompasses both classic Trinitarian language, and the unique language of some Pentecostal sects (“Jesus only Pentecostalism”).
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