The toughest challenge facing mainstream religions has been the rise of so-called “nones,” millennials born between 1981 and 1996 who are unchurched and show no signs of rethinking their lack of ...

I didn't intend to write three posts on the emerging/emergent church movement, and I know the subject may be getting old for some readers. But the topic isn't dead for those of us in the church. The ...

Nathan Frambach labored an entire morning at the University of Mary's January Leadership Days, trying to define the "emerging church," a phenomenon that is generating both conversation and controversy ...

Nathan Frambach labored an entire morning at the University of Mary's January Leadership Days, trying to define the "emerging church," a phenomenon that is generating both conversation and controversy ...

I don’t pick up The Chronicle Review–an insert in The Chronicle of Higher Education–expecting to be spurred to reflection on the emerging movement. And I’m quite sure that was not what author and UCLA ...

At The Well, the coffee and donuts come during church services, not afterwards. The new, non-denominational church in Rapid City can look and feel more like a coffeehouse than a church, and that's ...

Although there have been several attempts to study the dimensions of the Emerging Church movement (ECM) through close observation and survey data, we know little about its diffusion into American ...

Brian McLaren is at the forefront of the emergent church movement, which he describes as “a century-long conversation about what it means to follow Christ in a postmodern, post-colonial, ...