John Bell @ Advent Lutheran, Thurs OCT 18th

John Bell, a member of the Iona Community, is giving a worship workshop at Advent Lutheran (Broadway and 93rd Street) on October 18th at 7pm in the Sanctuary. I spoke with Pastor Elise Brown and she would like to extend a warm invitation to anyone who would like to attend this evening.

Here's how he describes himself in the Greenbelt bulletin. I heard him talk and hung out a bit with the folks at Iona when I went to Greenbelt UK this summer to speak - I was blown away.

Passing this info. along in case you can make it. Highly recommended.

Becky Garrison (photo from Greenbelt this past August)

Oct 9th - Signs of Emergence - book (& book review) discussion

Our next second Tuesday Cohort is coming up on October 9th.

This month, we’ll be discussing Kester Brewin’s book, Signs of Emergence: A Vision for Church That Is Always Organic/Networked/Decentralized/Bottom-Up/Communal/Flexible/Always Evolving – via some online reviews that will give you a good sense of the book (see links below). If you've read the book, bring it along (!) and it’s a fast read for those of you who might want to see how far you can get by next Tuesday ;-)

A main theme of the book is urban ministry, apt for those of us living in the NYC metro area. Kester is from London, and part of our discussion may look at “emerging” ideas jumping across the (big Atlantic) pond.

The best two online reviews I found...

• The first review by Ryan Bolger, co-author of Emerging Churches, is a succinct, well-written, 2-pager.

• The second review by Jordon Cooper, is about 6 pages, two-thirds chucky block-quotes right out of the book. This blog review suffers from lack of a copy editor (some typos, etc), but is well structured and gives a very good and enthusiastic sense of the book’s message.

Additional posts from NYC Cohort Members

• A short interview with Kester on The Ooze, by Becky Garrison

• Bowie’s four favorite Brewin quotes, on www.Transmissioning.org

Kester Brewin’s Blog

Signs was published by “emersion”, an Emergent Village imprint of Baker Books, in July 2007. It was previously published in the UK as The Complex Christ in 2004.

As usual, we’ll be meeting at 6:30 pm at the Origins Office, 581 9th Ave #3B @ 42nd St.

Look forward to seeing you there!

The Cohort Team