“The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why” by Phyllis Tickle (Baker Books, 224 pages, $14.99) A seismic shift in the bedrock of religion in this country is occurring, and we are ...

In the introduction of their new book whose title says it all – Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be (Moody, 2008) – authors Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck offer yet another attempt at ...

“Emergent Church” (or emerging church, or emergent Christianity, etc) is a label given to an amorphous, fast-growing populist movement that resists being affiliated with a particular denomination and ...

Pagitt, a leader in the Emergent church movement, came to faith as a teenager at a Passion play, but Christian theology often didn't cohere with his own raw, powerful and inclusive experiences of and ...

The epic story of the emergence of Christianity in just over a century, from the death of Jesus of Nazareth, around the year 30, to the moment when the leaders and followers of the new faith, already ...

In recent weeks, I have published a series of essays on Christianity and its historical trajectory. From its humble and tortured beginning in Asia, Christianity has risen to become a universal ...