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SAAC EVERETT’S The Emergent Psalter was a book before it was a podcast. Before that it was the liturgy in development/use at Transmission, Everett’s house church community in NYC. After mentioning the podcast I got the book from Amazon and now it’s a review here.

O WE WERE Sipping tea in the church, a clergy friend and I, relaxing in that most Orthodox of fashion: making Eucharist and fellowship with our ginger beer and crisps after a really smashing pot luck. We were discussing “What makes it Christian community” – that is a church or a meal or whatever. [...]

FRIEND – Who may identify theirself if they wish – recently took a new parish assignment. There was much rejoicing. The friend asked me for advice on Emergent Church Models and “how to do emergent”. You know: what books to read, etc.
And it was in the process of two conversations over [...]

ICUT erravit Ecclesia Hierosolymitana, Alexandrina, et Antiochena: ita et erravit Ecclesia Romana, non solum quoad agenda et caeremoniarum ritus, verum in his etiam quae credenda sunt.
As the Church of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch have erred: so also the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of ceremonies, but also in [...]

Bishop Alan writes of hopelessness as sickness in the Body of Christ.
Some kind of internal distraction process seems to be pulling the wagons off the trail, dragging them into a defensive, inward looking circle. To change the metaphor, perhaps the body of Christ is subject to the kind of illness in which the body’s immune [...]

I was just saying today that the Church is Very Small. One of the folks on my RSS, Adam, has been called to Working with The Macrina Community, a church plant from St Gregory of Nyssa Parish.

Was having a talk today with a friend online about the Independent Sacramental movement. The conversation was all over the board.
Then I said we needed to start our own indy jurisdiction and I first suggested that we do Eastern Rite, but then I realised that would be stupid because I’d want no [...]

More from Catholic News: Without the Church, the world dies, says Madrid cardinal. I remember one of the Fathers said, “As the soul is to the Body so the Church is to the World…
“the Church can continue fulfilling her mission as the Sacrament of Salvation.”
But remember: the entire body will be saved and [...]

Adam blogs a review of Tony Jones’ The New Christians:
It exudes hope for the church; hope that comes through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, but hope nonetheless. Tony talks about how emergent folk have a “hope-filled orientation toward the future,” and this book exemplifies that hope. After reading this book, one can’t [...]

On Monday, the New York Times‘ Andrew Revkin blogged the end of the 1950s – or at least he blogged a movie preview about the topic: The End of Suburbia

Revkin promises to blog attempts to “uninvent” Suburbia. The movies to which he links, which are now on my “must see” list, seem very clear about [...]