An interim report : telling the story so far. Back to now : how semi-millennial tsunamis of change shape religion and culture ; Calling it what it is : the difficulty of naming ; Defining emergence : simplifying the complexity ; Turns of the century : what formed the great emergence? -- A long time coming : how did we get here? House churches : communities of change ; Scattered communities : spreading the word by spreading out ; Taking the church out of the church : rethinking sacred space ; Pentecostal power : the holy spirit in a dangerous decade ; Spiritual but not religious : belonging, behaving, and believing in a new kind of community ; What the hyphen means : claiming the new while honoring the old ; Innocence lost : movement untethered ; Religion rebounds : gathering steam and getting a name -- Pulling together : defining what it is and what it is not. Reporting on the action : documenting the changes as they happened ; It takes a village... ; Distinguishing this from that : what organizational patterns can tell us ; Post, quasi, whatever : getting beyond the vague ; The whole and its parts : bringing it all together ; Finding the big story : the role of philosophy and meta-narrative ; The head and the heart : worshiping with heart, mind, soul, and strength -- And now what? : thoughts on the decisions and dilemmas to come. Reconfigure, adapt, realign : how do the new and old fit together? ; Where now is our authority? : questioning and establishing a credible voice ; Future pressure : what potential struggles await? -- Emergence Christianity : the photographic report.
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