Table of Contents

Introduction: Friendship, Faith, and Going Somewhere Together   Tony Jones     11
A People of Hope: Emergent-a Generative Friendship of Missional Christians   Doug Pagitt     17
Growing Pains: The Messy and Fertile Process of Becoming   Mark Scandrette     21
Meeting Jesus at the Bar: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Evangelism   Heather Kirk-Davidoff     33
What Would Huckleberry Do? A Relational Ethic as the Jesus Way   Nanette Sawyer     41
The Postmodern Parent: Shifting Paradigms for the Ultimate Act of Re-Creation   Carla Barnhill     51
The Art of Emergence: Being God's Handiwork   Troy Bronsink     59
Communities of Hope: New Ways, Questions, and Outcomes for Churches of Our Day   Doug Pagitt     75
An Ever-Renewed Adventure of Faith: Notes from a Community   Sherry Maddock   Geoff Maddock     79
Jailhouse Faith: A Community of Jesus in an Unlikely Place   Thomas Malcolm Olson     89
The Existing Church/Emerging Church Matrix: Collision, Credibility, Missional Collaboration, and Generative Friendship   Tim Conder     97
The American Catholic Merger-Church: A Too Small Answer   Brian Mitchell     109
Presbymergent: The Story of One Mainliner's Questto Be a Loyal Radical   Adam Walker Cleaveland     119
A Hopeful Faith: Christianity and the "God of Good Hope"   Tony Jones     129
Following Jesus into Culture: Emerging Church as Social Movement   Ryan Bolger     131
Church Emerging: Or Why I Still Use the Word Postmodern but with Mixed Feelings   Brian D. McLaren     141
The End of Reinvention: Mission Beyond Market Adoption Cycles   Will Samson     153
Converting Christianity: The End and Beginning of Faith   Barry Taylor     163
A Hopeful Way Forward: Theology of Practice, Practice of Theology   Doug Pagitt     171
Leadership in a Flattened World: Grassroots Culture and the Demise of the CEO Model   Sally Morgenthaler     175
The Sweet Problem of Inclusiveness: Finding Our God in the Other   Samir Selmanovic     189
Orthoparadoxy: Emerging Hope for Embracing Difference   Dwight J. Friesen     201
Humble Theology: Re-exploring Doctrine While Holding On to Truth   Dan Kimball     213
Leading from the Margins: The Role of Imagination in Our Changing Context   Tim Keel     225
Digging Up the Past: Karl Barth (the Reformed Giant) as Friend to the Emerging Church   Chris Erdman     235
Hopeful Activism: The Jesus Way in the Realities of Life   Tony Jones     245
A Pound of Social Justice: Beyond Fighting for a Just Cause   Rodolpho Carrasco     247
Emergent Kissing: Authenticity and Integrity in Sexuality   Karen E. Sloan     259
Our Report Card in the Year 2057: A Reflection on Women's Rights, Poverty, and Oppression   Deborah Loyd   Ken Loyd     269
Practicing Pentecost: Discovering the Kingdom of God amid Racial Fragmentation   Anthony Smith     279
Restoring Honor in the Land: Why the Emerging Church Can't Dodge the Issue   Randy Woodley     291
Afterword: This Is Just the Beginning: Living Our Great-Grandchildren's History   Doug Pagitt     302
Afterword to the Paperback Edition   Tony Jones   Doug Pagitt     307
Notes     310