Emerging Church Dot Info

One of the most encouraging and exciting developments over recent years has been the significant rise in the number of new expressions and experiments of christian communities more commonly referred to as ‘the emerging church’. Discovering what exactly is happening however is no easy task. The idea was born therefore to develop some kind of forum where stories could be told and reflected upon as well as opportunity being given for people to enter into debate on the issues surrounding these new ways of being church.

Link: Emerging Church Dot Info

Future Church

If you…

• have left the Church, but not God or a continuing search for meaning
• are interested in christian spirituality that is not narrow or fundamentalist
• are interested in spirituality or ideas about God
• are a part of a group exploring these ideas
• are part of a Church, but feel there must be other options
• are interested in finding a group to belong to explore these ideas and passions
• are looking for ideas and resources for your group
• are wondering about the future of the Church

Then Future Church is for you…

Link: Future Church

Relevant Magazine

Led by 16 section editors and hundreds of writers just like you, RELEVANTmagazine.com is the daily-updated, user-driven counterpart to RELEVANT magazine. The website receives hundreds of thousands of visitors and more than 4 million page views each month, and the print magazine has now surpassed more than 75,000 in circulation. In just a few short years, RELEVANT has become a leading voice for our generation.

We’re twentysomething Christians. We want to break stereotypes, challenge status-quo and enact change through the media. We’re seeking God, living life and striving to impact the world around us. It’s pretty simple, really. Oh yeah, and we’re a self-contained, for-profit business not affiliated with any other companies, denominations or organizations.

Link: Relevant Magazine

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools, dubbed “the magazine of Christian unrest”, was first launched in 1977 as a printed publication but sank in 1983, leaving a gap never filled in publishing circles. The growth of the Internet, particularly with its international dimension, makes feasible a minority webzine of this kind.

“We’re here for people who prefer disorganized religion to the organized kind,” says ship-of-fools.com editor Simon Jenkins. “From a position of commitment, we try to look objectively at religious trends in an accessible rather than cynical way. We commend as well as debunk. But we are not a campaign, we’re a conversation.”

Link: Ship of Fools

Target Magazine

The Target magazine is the best way to receive in depth, eyewitness accounts of the work of TEAR and their partners both in Australia and overseas…

Including articles and news reports from Tear across the world this is a great magazine.

Link: Target Magazine

The Next Wave

Next Wave’s dream is to bring together Christians from all walks of life, including pastors, church planters and leaders across denominational and national borders, who want to reach out to people in postmodern culture, and who understand that, in order to do so, significant changes need to be made in the way we run and organize our churches.

Next-Wave wants to explore new ways, discuss them, study them. Next-Wave is a place where any person, pastor, planter or leader can contribute. Discuss your strategy, raise your questions, list your objectives, explain your experiments, and share your stories with us!

Link: The Next Wave

The OOZE

The heart of TheOOZE is to encourage the Church to engage our emerging culture by developing relationships and resources.

The desire of TheOOZE is to create environments where church leaders (traditional teachers/theologians as well as emerging storytellers/artists) can converse about and collaborate on resources and experiences for the broader faith community. This is done by providing places for people to gather and communicate both online and offline about how to be the story of Christ to our emerging culture.

Link: The Ooze