Chad is offically a heretic.  One of the emergent heresy head hunter blogs have deemed Chad’s invitation for congregations to become “COOL,” aka energy efficient and green, to be a distraction from the gospel.  Hopefully Chad will still be able to sleep at night.  If you want to join the heretical movement and help congregations [...]

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The HBC Advent Podcast series keeps picking up more steam by the episode.  This week is the first of two podcasts that focus on the theological background of Advent, namely the Incarnation.  LeRon Shults is hopefully a familiar name to all those in the blog-o-sphere, because he regularly reveals goodness on the net.  In this [...]

 

 Evolutionary Biology and the Incarnation with LeRon Shults: Homebrewed Christianity ep.37 [44:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Chris Seay, Chief Conspirator for Advent, brain behind the Voice Project, Emergent Villager, and founding pastor of Ecclesia in Houston, comes to the HBC podcast to inspire us to conspire this Advent.
On top of an awesome conversation with Chris, Ryan Parker discusses the proleptic themes in the TV series ‘Life on Mars.’  We hope [...]

 

 The Avent Conspiracy with Chris Seay: Homebrewed Christianity ep.35 [34:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Last week was a trip to the past on the Reformation Day podcast and this week we look to the future with Phyllis Tickle as we discuss The Great Emergence.  In the past I blogged about the book and now you get to listen in on Phyllis and I talking about it.  If you haven’t [...]

 

 Phyllis Tickle on "The Great Emergence": Homebrewed Christianity ep.31 [76:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Brain McLaren joins us again.  Last time he brought us some Easter fire and this time instead of focusing on God’s New Creation that broke into being through Jesus’ resurrected life he tackled some other topics of smaller consequence.
He will discuss the bail out package, his new book “Finding our way again,” the “Everything Must [...]

 

 Brian McLaren joins us for Faith and Politics part 3: Homebrewed Christianity ep.29 [46:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Bruce Sanguin, author of “The Emerging Church” and pastor of Canadian Memorial Church, joins us this week for a discussion of his book and the transformative process he facilitated in his congregation. Since I posted a review of the book on the Emergent Village blog I don’t have a whole bunch to say other than [...]

 

 The Emerging Church with Bruce Sanguin: Homebrewed Christianity ep.26 [67:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Phyllis Tickle’s newest book is being blogged about all over the place, so I thought I would link to some of my favorite posts and\or comment streams under the posts and then throw out some observations or questions that ran through my mind as I read through the book.  I read the book in one [...]

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Mark Scandrette, co-founder of Reimagine, member of Seven, and author of Soul Graffiti, joins us this week with a podcast that is as cool and inspiring as San Fran.  Chad got to talk with Mark in his home, so I had to listen to it in envy.  I really enjoyed meeting Mark when he came [...]

 

 Mark Scandrette wants you to Graffiti your Soul: Homebrewed Christianity ep.25 [47:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Phyllis Tickle’s newest book, “The Great Emergence,” just came out and it is worth the wait.  It was one of the books I pre-ordered on amazon, so its arrival was a welcome surprise.  I have been looking forward to this book since I first met Phyllis and her husband Sam at an event put on [...]

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This week we are joined by Fred Burnham, Senior Fellow of the Institue of Servant Leadership. He describes his experience on 9\11 at Trinity Church Wall St. where he was with Rowan Williams and the ensuing ministry that took place at St. Paul’s Chapel right in front of the Twin Towers.  Having met Fred at [...]

 

 9\11 & the Emerging Church with Fred Burnham: Homebrewed Christianity ep. 23 [32:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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