Dear Friends,

What have you heard or read about the Emergent (or Emerging) Church? They don't want to be identified as a "movement" according to one EC Website. Rather, it's a "conversation".

I listened to both Michael Horton's and Shane Rosenthal's interviews about the EC on Issues, Etc. (Links to both interviews are on the White Horse Inn Website.) One of the leaders of the EC conversation is Brian McLaren who was one of TIME magazines' 25 Most Influential Evangelicals.

Anyway, I heard the interviews and I'm in the middle of McLaren's book The Church on the Other Side and I've surfed to a dozen EC Websites...and still I'm asking myself, "Where's the beef?" Like Horton says in his interview with Todd Wilken, it's like trying to nail jell-o to the wall.

According to the WHI Website there will be an article in the next issue of Modern Reformation magazine about EC, and perhaps that will clarify what it is. As far as I can tell, the Emergent Church looks suspiciously similar to plain vanilla "seeker-sensitive" churches, with overstuffed chairs and the word "postmodern" sprinkled liberally thoughout the dialogue.

Relztrah