Emerging Women Group
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The Emerging Women Group hopes to be a clearinghouse for the issues we face as women of faith.
In a changing world, a world that is flattening in large part because of the medium of the internet, women’s voices are ringing clearly as voices of reason, constancy, thoughtfulness and love. As a faith community, we have much to offer the world.
And as women, we have much to offer each other. The Women’s Group is only one of several here at the Emergent Village, and this site will provide many other outlets for men and women to write, link, converse. If you wish to participate in the Women’s Group or post articles or blogs to any topic on this site, you can submit them right here. We are also putting out a call for links to other women’s sites and blogs, which may receive permanent links.
SUBMIT YOUR WRITING
The women of the emergent movement have much to say! Are you one of them? We welcome you to write and participate in our conversations here and elsewhere on the web.
Click here to submit short articles on any topic. Here in the Women’s Group, we are currently seeking articles on how gender informs your faith journey, and the joys or trials you face along the way. Within this group we will explore all aspects of our faith and theology as time goes by, so please feel free to write as your heart dictates.
We wish the original content to be short, strong articles: 1,000 words or less. This is going to evolve as we develop an online presence that will provide more and more outlets for expression.
LINKS
We encourage you to continue to converse on our sister sites as well. At this time, we recommend the Emerging Women’s Regathering Blog. These events are planned throughout the year, and this blog helps to keep women informed: both of upcoming events and of the thoughts and discussions they take home from each event.
Submit your suggested women’s links here for now. You will be able to make your own links in time, and we will be launching a more comprehensive women’s area mid-fall. Please stay involved! Let your voice be heard!
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I belong to Christians for Biblical Equality which publishes two periodicals, and gathers resources (mostly books) based on very good research and scholarship. I recomend them highly: www.cbeinternational.org
J. Martha Compleman-Blair
What’s going on here? Where’s Sarah, and what happened to the rest of my blog posts?
relocated to Sherman Oaks, CA. i’m in need of a solid home church….i like what i’ve read so far. where is the closest location to me?
Hello. I’m new here. I have recently become very interested in the EC and what it means. I am looking for a home church in or around Portland Oregon. I’ve just recently been divorced after 26 years of marriage. I’ve been surfing the web gathinering information and I like what I see so far. One concern I have is that some people relate the EC to New Ageism. I don’t see that as the case, however, I’m interested in hearing other opinions. Also, why do so many churches that consider themselves “emergent” seem to focus so much on young people and families? Where are the 40 somethings?!
I’m 60 something and i have found it in Bethesda, MD and we are looking for a pastor.Check out the job ad.
PASTOR SEARCH: CHURCH IN BETHESDA
If you can:
-Deliver concise sermons that stir our souls and challenge us to think -Provide visionary leadership for an intergenerational, socially conscious, spiritually committed congregation -Show deep maturity, spiritual and practical, needed for blending a diverse group of people -Energize us, organize us, and get us focused -Help us develop an even greater heart for living the Kingdom of God and spreading Christ’s love to all we touch in our families, our community and the world -Bring innovative liturgical elements to our worship and yet respect and preserve elements of high importance to long time church members – Join in our emerging church inquiry – Reach out to the community and provide many different points where people can connect with us -Manage and evaluate a diverse staff If you are:Determined, perceptive, insightful, optimistic, teachable, enthusiastic, search-centered rather that dogma-driven, able and willing to work in a co-pastor situation with a member of the opposite sex, if needed , a consensus builder and a fair team player And if you: -Own an i-pod, know who John Coltrane, Brian McLaren, and Marcus Borg are
-Have, at least, one time rooted for the Redskins
-Dare to hit the slopes with a 70 something year old man wearing a red leather tie,
Then: YOU MAY BE THE PASTOR GOD HAS READY FOR THE CHURCH IN BETHESDA.
Please go to our website: ChurchinBethesda.org , look under employement, fill out the questionnaire and e-mail the materials requested. We look forward to hearing from you.
Hi, I’m from northeastern Ohio and help to facilitate a small housechurch. I just found your sight and I’m just interested in what you have to offer. It all seems very enlightening. Our small group at times seems a bit fractured. The ones who started it, don’t come very much anymore. Finding a place and time to meet, where everyone can come is always a “challenge”. Are there others out there in the same boat? Also, we are a group of over 50’s (mostly) who have come from years in the institutional church and struggle with the adjustments in our thinking that God is calling us to. Some of us (including myself) find ourselves pendulum swinging, from the “go to church” mentality to the “be the church” mentality. So that’s where I’m at. Thanks for letting me vent.
I’ve just joined today. I live in northeast Florida. There are no cohorts here – just in the south. I do write, so I can submit something about my faith journey, and the joys or trials I face along the as a single mom who is also the daughter of ex Flower Children.
Ever since i have finished college i have been looking for a outlet like this. Our senior context seminar was based on postmodernism and the emergent church. Yea for giving women a voice in this movement!
I live near Indianapolis and have a great church, in fact there is a book group that just started about Brian McLarens book, A new kind of Christian. I love this book and I am thinking of starting a group of my own to discuss it, the one we go to now is 40 minutes away and I think something closer would be good. If anyone has any info for me I would be thankful.
Are there any groups or emerging churches north of Dallas, TX? They have so much to offer and I miss what I had before I moved here.
Hi to my dear sisters-in-Christ, I am a minister’s wife,60 years young, very involved, can’t get employment from ‘church’ so have gone into state run chaplaincy. To use my gifts for God, I’ve gone outside of the square, and I’m sure I’ll find joy in being at the coalface for these lost teens, atheistic teachers, etc. Prease pray for me Love to you all, Jesus is leading His church – emerging or ‘conservative’ doesn’t matter to Him. His love is on ‘those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus’ Rev 12: 17 Rose AUSTRALIA
Dear Rose (14)
state run chaplaincies, albeit with a whole new set dysfunctionalities, are a lot more fun to minister in than the church, you couldn’t have fallen into something better. I pastor a church of incarcerated men and work day to day with prison officials and officers. I have never been surrouned by so many people who have never desired to spend any time in a church. It is a blast! Enjoy it!
I live in Indianapolis, IN and attend St. Luke’s UMC. I am part of a class reading
“Everything Must change” and I am being changed by it! I hope to learn more about the cohort group here in Indy and welcome contact from Nova.
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