“The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why” by Phyllis Tickle (Baker Books, 224 pages, $14.99) A seismic shift in the bedrock of religion in this country is occurring, and we are ...

Phyllis Tickle, a respected authority on religion, speaks about how she sees Christianity being reshaped. She spoke in Columbia for an event called, "What is the Future of Faith?" Christianity is in ...

Mary Beth Mathews is assistant professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. She wrote this for the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star. (McClatchy-Tribune) ...

In the introduction of their new book whose title says it all – Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be (Moody, 2008) – authors Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck offer yet another attempt at ...

Christianity is due for a major transformation – potentially, something as big as the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's how Phyllis Tickle sees it. Tickle is the founding editor of the religion ...

I'm a sentinel of sorts, now, standing vigil over one of the last markers of a movement that flickered and died. After a brief conversation, Presbymergent shut down its Facebook presence many moons ...

“Emergent Church” (or emerging church, or emergent Christianity, etc) is a label given to an amorphous, fast-growing populist movement that resists being affiliated with a particular denomination and ...

Christian conservatives who think Satan is using communism and Islam to bring down America can add a new “adversary” to the list: the emergent church movement. A portion of the upcoming Values Voter ...