Em um espírito de diálogo, uso a oportunidade para explicar o que "emergente" não quer dizer.

  Imaginei um médico falando assim "Eu não acredito em medicina preventiva. Eu acredito em saúde." Isto resume para mim o que ouço às vezes. São variações do tema "eu acho que a igreja deveria ser bíblica" ou então "acho que a igreja hoje deveria ser como a igreja primitiva". São realmente ideais nobres. São ideais que todos nós devemos cultivar. Mas cultivar com cuidado. Imagino também um outro médico dizendo "Eu não acredito em rótulos. Eu só acredito em saúde holística. Saúde é o que interessa, o resto não tem pressa." Esse médico então jogará no lixo a tabela mundial de classificação de doenças ICD-10 da Organização Mundial de Saúde. No final do primeiro dia de consultas, o médico terá escrito nas anotações de cada uma das suas 70 consultas a mesma frase: "paciente se queixa de problemas de saúde".

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE: Spirit moves them: The philosophy within the emergent movement: ‘It’s time for us to take back Christianity’

By Jane Clifford
FAMILY EDITOR
June 21, 2008

It’s not often that you can go out for an evening and enjoy book readings, musical theater and a spiritual message – all in the same place. But that’s exactly what happened for those who showed up for “The Church Basement Roadshow: A Rollin’ Gospel Revival” Sunday night at Christ Lutheran Church in Pacific Beach.

Three guys – Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette – play six characters in their 90-minute show, which is a provocative way to sell their books and reach an audience hungry for more. The show opens with them as 1908 revivalists – Preacher A.L. Withee (Scandrette), Big Brother Duke (Pagitt) and Professor A.W. Hawthorne (Jones).

By Rebecca Rosen Lum
Contra Costa Times
Article Launched: 06/05/2008

Lyle Birkey of the emerging church movement picks up trash in the Mission district with others…

In an apartment a few steps below street level in San Francisco’s Mission District, several people — most in their 20s — sat in a horseshoe of couches to consider the meaning of service.

In black high-tops, Crocs, hoodies and jeans, they looked much like the hipsters who wait in line Sunday mornings for a table at Boogaloo’s a few blocks away on Valencia Street

San Francisco pastor wins second ballot victory

The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow was elected moderator of the 218th General Assembly. Photo by Joseph Williams

SAN JOSE, June 21, 2008 —The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow, 39, an energetic new church development pastor in San Francisco and leader in the “emergent church” movement, was elected moderator of the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Saturday night (June 21), capturing a second ballot victory.