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Emerged

by Tripp Fuller, Tony Jones, Josh Gilbert

An Oral History of the Emergent Church Movement hosted by Tripp Fuller and Tony Jones

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  1. Bonus Wrap Up: Live from Tony's Backyard with Doug Pagitt

    In this bonus episode, Josh, Tony, and Tripp sit down in Tony's backyard with Doug Pagitt to reminisce about the entirety of the Emerged project. They share fond behind-the-scenes memories of making these episodes. Members from the Minneapolis Emerged Cohort offer questions and give feedback from...

  2. 10 | The Legacy: The Emerging Church Movement as Failure and Success

    In this final episode of Emerged, we combed through 70+ hours of interviews with dozens to look back on the movement and assess its successes, its failures, and its legacy. We talk about the central aspect of the ECM — friendship — and we listen in as two churches die. And finally, we say our...

  3. 09 | Emergent So White: A Conversation with the Postmodern Negro

    In this episode of Emerged, we are joined by Anthony Smith, a Pentecostal minister, local activist, EV Cohort leader, town councilman, and Theo-blogger at Musings of a Postmodern Negro. This long-time leader of the ECM shares his personal journey, highlighting how questions of race, class, and...

  4. 08 | The Backlash: Critics Take Their Toll

    From the beginning, church leaders criticized the Emerging Church Movement. At times painful, at other times laughable, it came from the right and the left. The critics took on what ECM leaders said and wrote, how they led churches, and even how they looked. And none were more the target of...

  5. 07 | Rachel Held Evans and the Theological Time Machine

    In 2011, Tripp sat down with Rachel Held Evans (1981-2019) to record some conversations for a project that never got off the ground. This never-before-heard audio provides a fascinating glimpse into what was going on in the church and the world — and in the head and heart of one of the most…

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  6. 06 | A Day in the Life: Planting and Pastoring Emerging Churches

    For all the talk about theology and postmodernism, for all the books and conferences, the heart of the Emerging Church Movement was always one thing: planting new churches. In this episode, we sit down for extended conversations with two ECM pastors: Tim Keel planted Jacob’s Well in Kansas City,...

  7. 05 | Emergence Is Everywhere: Cross-Pollinations and Conversations

    The church was not emerging just in the US, but also around the world – and even in other religions. In this episode of Emerged, we take a tour around the globe, stopping to talk with leaders who emerged in the UK, South Africa, Malaysia, and Australia. Then we land the plane in Los Angeles to...

  8. 04 | The Phyllis Phenomenon: The Power of a Woman in Culottes

    Phyllis Tickle (1934-2015) was a force of nature. She was a poet, author, publisher, teacher, professor, and so much more. She was one of the leading experts on the church in America, and her Divine Hours books introduced a generation of Christians to fixed hour prayer. And in the mid-2000s, she...

  9. 03 | Peak Emergent: A Movement Hits Its Stride

    By 2001, a lot had changed for the nascent emerging church movement: Doug Pagitt left Leadership Network to start a church, and shortly thereafter, Leadership Network shut down the Young Leaders Network. (Also, a notorious pastor in Seattle was asked to leave the group.) The “Group of 20” became...

  10. 02 | The Miracle at Glorieta: The Gathering that Launched a Movement

    Many people point to the Re:Evaluation Forum, held at the Glorieta Conference Center in October, 1998, as the birth of the Emerging Church Movement. That gathering followed a chain of events that included the founding of Young Leaders Network in 1993, and seminal conferences at Glen Eyrie in 1996...

  11. 01 | Proto-Emergent: The Seeds of a Movement

    The Emerging Church Movement did not come from nowhere. It sprung from a history that included the Jesus Movement, the Seeker Sensitive Megachurch Movement, and a revolution in youth ministry. In this episode, hosts Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller talk about what was happening in the 1980s and 1990s…

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  12. Emerged PREVIEW: Nadia Bolz-Weber

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  13. Emerged PREVIEW: Diana Butler Bass

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  14. Emerged PREVIEW: The Early Days with Tim Conder

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  15. Emerged PREVIEW: Rachel Held Evans & Tripp

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  16. TRAILER: Emerged: An Oral History of the Emerging Church Movement

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An Oral History of the Emergent Church Movement hosted by Tripp Fuller and Tony Jones

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Tripp Fuller, Tony Jones, Josh Gilbert

Produced by Josh Gilbert

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