Emersion Books

Behind the Scenes of an Emersion Team Meeting

Lauren Forsythe — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:24:47 -0400

Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at the Emersion team—Doug Pagitt, Carla Barnhill, Tim Conder, Chad Allen, and myself, Brooke Nolen—at work. The team recently met in Minneapolis, Minnesota where Doug Pagitt hosted the meeting at Solomon’s Porch, a unique church community that he leads. On Sunday evening, I experienced firsthand Doug spinning around on a stool, barefoot in a room full of believers and seekers, while encouraging attendees to interact with his message. I felt very much at ease sitting on one of the couches among a welcoming community of folks desiring to live out their faith together in a real way. This church was the perfect place to help stimulate creative and challenging conversations with the Emersion team throughout the next few days. And this meaningful dialogue is why I am excited to have recently joined the Emersion team—and would love to help you join, too.

Join the Conversation—An Event Just for You!

To see where this emerging conversation is headed, you are welcome to attend:

The Great Emergence National Event

December 4–6

Memphis, TN

Phyllis Tickle, a highly respected authority on American religion (www.PhyllisTickle.com), will be the main speaker at The Great Emergence National Event. October will see the release of her new book, The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. Tickle addresses what she believes to be a historically pivotal moment in church history that is relevant to all major Christian traditions. To learn more or register, visit: www.TheGreatEmergence.com

Transforming Culture Symposium

Lauren Forsythe — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 -0500

An event you may be interested in:

Transforming Culture [A Vision for the Church and the Arts]: www.transformingculture.org
April 1-3, 2008. Austin, TX.

This symposium will bring together pastors, church leaders and artists to discuss the Church’s relation to the arts and to artists. We will focus our discussion on three areas:

1) art and the worship of the Church

2) artists and the community of the Church

3) art and the mission of the Church in the renewal culture

If you are interested in exploring the ways in which we can encourage a more theologically informed, biblically grounded, liturgically sensitive, artistically alive and missionally shrewd vision for the Church and the arts, then we welcome you join us April 1-3, 2008 for a lively and enriching conversation.

Speakers include: JEREMY BEGBIE, ANDY CROUCH, BARBARA NICOLOSI, EUGENE PETERSON, DAVID TAYLOR, JOHN WITVLIET

For more info and to register click here.

Outreach Resource of the Year Finalists

Lauren Forsythe — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:57:11 -0500

We just heard about the finalists for the Fifth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year Awards. A few Baker Publishing Group books are on the list:

Leadership Training category - The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church by Alan Hirsch

Global Outreach category - Hope in Troubled Times: A New Vision for Confronting Global Crises, by Bob Goudzwaard, Mark Vander Vennen, & David Van Heemst

Justice Evangelism category - Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live by Will Samson and Lisa Samson

These titles will be reviewed in the May/June Outreach magazine. Find out more about these books on BPGs new website: www.bakerpublishinggroup.com.

Intuitive Leadership Review and Conference

Lauren Forsythe — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:00:00 -0500

Intuitive Leadership was recently reviewed in Emergent Village's Emergent/C. Nannette Sawyer (contributor to An Emergent Manifesto of Hope) gave the review. Click here to see the archive.

Also, it was recently announced that Tim Keel will be hosting a conference. Here is the info:

Intuitive Leadership Conference

April 23-25, 2008
Jacob's Well Church
Kansas City, Missouri

To make an impact today, churches need to discover new ways of leading that embrace intuition, creativity, narrative, and the chaos and tension of our time. In his book Intuitive Leadership, Jacob's Well founding pastor Tim Keel offers a theologically grounded, thoughtful, and practical exploration of how intuitive leadership can help local churches embrace contemporary opportunities and challenges.

We invite you to join Tim Keel and the Jacob's Well community as they host a conference based around the themes, ideas, and implications of Tim's recently released book. Through a series of conversations, dialogues, and break-out sessions, the Intuitive Leadership Conference will help people to explore the evolving nature of leadership in our postmodern context and the implications for local churches and their leaders.

For more information, check out http://www.timkeel.net.

Webcast with Sally Morgenthaler and Joe Myers

Lauren Forsythe — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:16:08 -0500

Sally Morganthaler (contributor to An Emergent Manifesto of Hope) and Joe Myers (author of Organic Community) will have a live webcast Nov. 19th, 2007 (9 pm EST) at www.shapevine.com

Check it out!

The Latest Emersion Books Reviews

Lauren Forsythe — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:00:00 -0500

Organic Community, by Joseph R. Myers

Namahatta: review by Adam Walker Cleaveland: “I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the ideas behind creating community in a church or other setting.” To see the full review, click here.
Jonny Baker’s Blog: “If you are involved in a community like a church then I'd encourage you to read the book. It's also very interesting for organizations like CMS who are trying to rethink how people connect - where the old way has been membership, creating an environment where people participate is definitely the way it's going.” To see the full review, click here.

Signs of Emergence, by Kester Brewin

Matt Wilson’s Blog: “Signs of Emergence by Kester Brewin is another book put out by the “emersion” resources with Baker Books. Personally, I feel this is the best work yet. […] I highly recommend this book whether you are into the emerging conversation and discussing church and how it looks in this day and culture but also for the casual reader as well.” To see the full review, click here.

Intuitive Leadership, by Tim Keel

Scott McKnight's Blog: Jesus Creed: "If you think this is your typical, here's-how-to-do-it leadership book, forget about it. This book is part autobiography and part ecclesio-graphy (biography of a church) and it is one fine book." To see the full review, click here.
Also, for those of you who haven't visited Tim Keel's Blog, check it out: www.timkeel.com

Intuitive Leadership Excerpt

Lauren Forsythe — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:27:00 -0500

Read an excerpt from Intuitive Leadership by Tim Keel. This includes the Table of Contents, Introduction, and Chapter 8 "A Modest Proposal."

Download Keel_Intuitive Leadership_Excerpt.pdf

Hey all you writers!

Lauren Forsythe — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:37:23 -0500

Faithvine is having a writing contest. It’s simple: Log in to Faithvine (http://faithvine.com/contest/). Write an article. Best article gets $1,000. Plus, four other finalists will also get a lot of cash.

Just log in and submit an article that answers the question:
“What makes a Christian any different from anybody else?”

You and your peers, other Faithvine users, will rate each article, and the 25 highest-rated articles (semifinalists) will be selected for review by the Faithvine staff, which will narrow the selection down to 5 finalists. The finalists will then be arranged in order from First Place through Fifth Place. First Place will be awarded the Grand Prize of $1,000 and the remaining four finalists will also be awarded cash, from $500 to $250 and two awards of $125 each.

It would be great to have different perspectives to this question. I heard about this contest through the guys at Faithvine and Doug Pagitt. Apparently Doug will help judge the top 5 essays or something to that nature. Happy writing and good luck!

If you know of any other opportunities like this or any events I should post about, email me at emersion@bakerpublishinggroup.com.

Intuitive Leadership by Tim Keel

Lauren Forsythe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:13:32 -0400

Intuitive Leadership (the 5th release in the emersion line) released early this month. You can read more about it below or read an excerpt here.

About the Book: As our culture shifts from modern to postmodern, pastors and church leaders are finding that old, rigid church leadership systems and structures no longer seem to work. Church leaders are searching for and discovering new, creative ways of leading—emphasizing intuition, creativity, narrative, and an embrace of the chaos and tension of our time.

Tim Keel, pastor of a thriving emergent church and a rising leader in the emergent church movement, offers a thought-provoking yet practical exploration of this new style he calls Intuitive Leadership. His fresh approach will be welcomed by pastors and lay leaders interested in the emergent conversation and how Christian mission should look in our rapidly changing culture.

Praise for Intuitive Leadership

"Tim Keel writes with the eye of an artist, the heart of a pastor, the mind of a philosopher, and the hope of a visionary. His intuitions will inspire your own, and his voice will add so much to the conversation about what is emerging in our lives, churches, and world."

--Brian McLaren, author/speaker (brianmclaren.net)

"Tim Keel has written a fascinating and engaging book that will quickly become both a starting point and a standard bearer for thinking about leadership in the emerging church. In addition to reimagining the nature of leadership, it also offers an implicit and enticing portrait of the type of community that will be formed in response to the vision and values described in these pages. In other words, if we follow the direction set forth in this volume, things will start to look different in the church. For many of us, that’s a reason to hope that this book is widely read."

--John R. Franke, professor of theology, Biblical Seminary

"Deeply personal and human in its approach, Intuitive Leadership both charms the mind and informs the heart. The result is a wise and gentle tracing of the contours of postmodernism that is as healing as it is liberating."

--Phyllis Tickle, contributing editor in religion, Publishers Weekly

"Read Tim Keel’s book. Let it invite you to connect with your stories, the markers along the road that have been shaping you so far. Let it permit you to give voice to your questions. . . . Let’s see how these narratives and the metaphors shaping your life might provide all kinds of clues for the risky ways in which God is calling you to embrace the chaos of our time with hope and expectation. Thanks, Tim! You resisted an answer book and in so doing invited others to embrace the radical hope of God’s future."

--From the foreword by Alan J. Roxburgh, director, Allelon Center for Missional Leadership, Allelon Missional Leadership Network

"Erudite, eloquent, and engaging, Tim Keel’s Intuitive Leadership is a landmark in pastoral ministry, for he brings together the multiple streams of emerging church, postmodernity, media theory, biblical interpretation, church planting, cultural studies, and holistic, missional life. This book is destined to be a church leadership classic."

--Tony Jones, national coordinator of Emergent Village; author The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

Reviews

Lauren Forsythe — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:00:00 -0400

Here are some links for the latest reviews on emersion books:

Organic Community:

Out of the Cocoon: Review by Paul Walker; Planting God Communities: Review by Ron Robinson; Emerging Women: Review by Sonja

Justice in the Burbs:

New Wine Skins: Review by Fred Peatross

Emergent Manifesto of Hope:

iamjoshbrown.com: Review by Josh Brown; The Nick & Josh Podcast: Interview of Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt (both in archives)

Signs of Emergence:

TheBolgBlog: Review by Ryan Bolger