Dec 04 --- From Charlie Wear: Next-Wave is the product of the contributing authors. Each month contributors email articles, post them to the discussion area, or are solicited from the recent posting of various bloggers. Slicker magazines have themes and special issues. Each one of these we have tried to pull off never comes together. What is in Next-Wave each month is the product of the inspiration of our authors. I always find their contributions challenging and thought-provoking. Several years ago I wrote a holiday parable entitled "Joy to the World" which you can find here>>>. Blessings in this holiday season. Enjoy!
Article: The Emerging Storm by Stephen Shields
There’s been a lot of rumbling in emerging church blogdom about a coming storm. An anticipation of this was Jason Clark’s September 2004 Summary of Outcomes of the Emergent Coordinating Group’s meeting the previous month. Clark writes: We have been told that a few high-powered conservative evangelical voices have targeted us for critique. We have expected this for some time, and have so far been impressed by how generous and restrained critique has been. That restraint may end soon.
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Article: A wonderful funeral by Andrew Jones
A wonderful funeral. Can I say that? Does it sound sacreligious? Dang-it, i will say it anyway. An amazing thing happened during my brother's funeral yesterday and it brought healing and laughter into our lives. >> more
Column: A postmodern retirement party by Eutychus Bailey
My friend Tom retired this week. I never thought I would see the day when people near my age (born in the 1970s) would be retiring from the ministry.The party was a great time honoring his long life of ministry. They flashed a bunch of pictures on the wall of people that he had influenced over the years. They started way back when he dropped out of college in 1991 to intern with a church plant in Portland. >> more
Letters to Editor: Smith takes on Bailey
I was surprised to see so many pragmatist ideas surfacing in Eutychus Bailey's article from the future. As a postmodern kind of person, I found his ideas to be overgeneralizations that don't rightly describe the movement. >> more
Article: What Christians should learn from Queers by Drew Goodmanson
The week wore my wife and I out. After a quick dinner in Hillcrest (Well-known as San Diego's gay and lesbian Mecca SignonSanDiego.com) we decided to rent a movie and call it a night. I dropped my wife off at home to put our son to sleep and drove to the nearby Blockbuster. >> more
Review: American Jesus by Stephen Pothereo, a review by Tim Berroth
"Forget what you have heard about the cross or the tomb. Jesus is alive and well and living in America. And everyone is bearing witness to his glory." So writes author Stephen Prothero in his book American Jesus : How the Son of God Became a National Icon. >> more
Article: Christianity and the Arts by Brian Thomas
What role should the arts play in the Christian life? By “arts” I mean all vehicles of creative expression, including but not limited to: painting, sculpture, music, architecture, fashion, photography, dance, television and film. Can art be used to the glory of God or is it just another way of sneaking sin in through the back door? >> more
Article: What Christians can learn from the tourism industry by Sarah Raymond Cunningham
New Orleans—with its reputation for hosting Mardi Gras and infamous Bourbon Street celebrations—was not a place where I expected to pick up new spiritual insights. >> more
Article: WFD in a PM World by Carmen DiCello
Christians have long recognized that there is opposition in this life to the ways of God, hindrances to the walk of faith. Typically, these have been delineated as the World, the Flesh, and the Devil (WFD). >> more
Interview: A Generous Orthodoxy...an interview with Brian McLaren
Brian McLaren, pastor and author, has recently published "A Generous Orthodoxy." You can read Next-Wave's interview with him here... >> more
Review: The Shovel and Metaphilm, web site reviews by Mike Morrell
Jim Minker is one of the emerging church's best-kept secrets. Come on, guys, we should all be reading him. >> more
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