Flat Churches? Tony Jones talks to Steve Knight
This morning I had a lengthy Skype conversation with Steve Knight, a friend and a consultant working with Hope Partnership a newly forming Disciples of Christ church planting/transformation entity. Our conversation is a followup to a conversation that Steve had with Tony Jones, author of The Church is Flat, which is Tony's Princeton Ph.D. dissertation in Practical Theology. They talked about that book, Tony's work with the Emergent Church movement, and his analysis of the movement. I want to show that video as a prelude to my conversation with Steve covering similar areas, but from a related by different perspective.
Let me set this conversation up. Tony writes about the Emergent Movement within the Christian community from within the movement. He's a founder of the movement and served as executive director of Emergent Village for several years. He is part of one of the leading Emergent churches, Solomon's Porch, which is pastored by/led by Doug Pagitt. I fi…
Let me set this conversation up. Tony writes about the Emergent Movement within the Christian community from within the movement. He's a founder of the movement and served as executive director of Emergent Village for several years. He is part of one of the leading Emergent churches, Solomon's Porch, which is pastored by/led by Doug Pagitt. I fi…