Out of the Ooze

I have a chapter in the just published “Out of the Ooze- Unlikely Love Letters to the Church From Beyond the Pew”, a collection of articles from The Ooze. It's my essay "Just Who Is Emergent Anyway?" written a couple of years ago in response to many who were jumping on the "Let's light some candles and call it Emerging!!!" bandwagon.

The book is divided into sections: Awakening, Rethinking, Experiencing, Wondering and Responding. Other authors include Andrew Jones, Bill Dahl,  Frank Viola, Peter Walker, Lan Hjalmerson, Alan Hartung, John O’Keefe, Spencer Burke, Lisa DeLay and Sarah Raymond Cunningham. Spencer is the general editor and I'm truly impressed and grateful that he'd want my contribution, even after the fisking I gave him over "Heretic's Guide to Eternity." 

A blurb from Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways:

“Out of the Ooze is a collection of the writings from various exiles, mystics, poets, and dreamers of the postmodern church. As such, it gives eloquent voice to the rich litany of interests and concerns of a generation. Eclectic, edgy, intelligent, and generative, this is a book that will help the reader better understand the ardent search for a place to stand that so characterizes the Western church in our time.”

Check it out here

Comments

[Dustin]

dude, congrats! I mean, it's not "The Relevant Church" but it's pretty cool.

[Alan Hartung]

I enjoyed your article the first time I read it, Bob, and I enjoyed it again in the book!

Hope you end up in "Volume 2" as well. If you've written anything in 2007 that hasn't been published on TheOoze and you'd like me to take a look at it, let me know. The criteria for the next book is just that it went up on the site in 2007...

[Jake Bouma]

Congrats on the publication and welcome to The Daily Scribe!