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 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 ...

BOSTON -- His friends assumed his covert Sunday trips to a cross-town Episcopal church were about a girl, but Rick Bennett was actually looking for some inspiring liturgy. Bennett, then a high school ...

Fuller Seminary theology professor Anderson bases a theology for today's ""emerging"" churches on the church in first-century Antioch. Like that ancient church, today's church may need a ""new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passionately, articulately and with sometimes winsome self-confidence, Belcher seeks to chart a “third way” between the often divided factions within the traditional and emerging wings of American ...