The Great Emergence

The Great Emergence begins tomorrow in Memphis and I wanted to take the time to promote it and the book that started it all: The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle. By clicking here find out more about the event and the book. Please check out what Phyllis has to say about The Great Emergence on the Youtube video that I have posted.

November 29th is our next Cohort Gathering!

With out further-a-do our next Fort Worth Emergent Cohort Gathering is here ! On Saturday November 29th we will be meeting at the Ginger Man Pub in Fort Worth @ 1 p.m. The Ginger Man is located at 3716 Camp Bowie Boulevard. We know it is the weekend after turkey day, and it is the day after black Friday, but that is how we roll at the Fort Worth Cohort! We will be talking about the organization Trade As One. Trade As One is a fare trade organization that helps provide jobs in poor stricken countries. To know about them please watch the brief youtube video.

Know that Ginger Man does have food you can partake in if you want. So, come hungry, come thirsty, and come ready to hang out and meet some like minded folks. If you have any questions please feel free to email Phil or call the Eucatastrophe @ 612-226-0127.

September 20th is Our Next Gathering!

It is finally here! Our next Fort Worth Emergent Cohort Gathering! On Saturday September 20th we will be meeting at the Ginger Man Pub in Fort Worth @ 1 p.m. The Ginger Man is located at 3716 Camp Bowie Boulevard. It has been June since we have last meet do to many circumstances however, we no longer have to wait. We will spend the time reacquainting ourselves with each other and meeting new faces to share this journey we call life together. Know that Ginger Man does have food you can partake in if you want. So, come hungry, come thirsty, and come ready to hang out and meet some like minded folks. If you have any questions please feel free to email Phil or call the Eucatastrophe @ 612-226-0127.

Cohort Gathering May 17th!

We are going to host our next cohort gathering on Saturday, May 17th at the Ginger Man Pub in Fort Worth. The Ginger Man is located at 3716 Camp Bowie Boulevard. We will be gathering at 1:00 p.m., so you can eat there or come well fed already. We are going to continue to use this time to get to know each other (many of you will be first-timers) and discuss how to best move our communal learning forward as friends.

We decided to try a weekend gathering during the day again. However, we know that this might not work for everyone either. So, we would like to know when would be a good time for you to meet so we can create appropriate spaces for our conversations. It would be great if you would use the comments section of this post to tell us when would be good for you to meet (i.e. weeknights after 8pm except Thursdays). I think you folks get the idea.

Have a great week, and we hope to see you at The Ginger Man on May 17th.

Phil

The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

Shane, a fellow contributer of the Fort Worth Cohort has written a review on The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier by Tony Jones. Tony is national coordinator for Emergent Village. You can read Shane’s review of Tony’s Book by clicking here. Tony will be in Dallas this Thursday night doing a book signing at the Barns and Noble, Lincoln Park 7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300 Dallas, TX 75225. If you can come out and support Tony please do.

Cohort Gathering March 22nd!

Hello friends!

For those of you who I met at the Everything Must Change Tour with Brian McLaren, I apologize on the lateness of this post. I had hoped to post more expeditiously but life happens – I’m sure it happens to you too.

After meeting many of you for the first time and discussing it with Phil, we have decided to try an experiment of sorts. We are going to host our next cohort gathering on Saturday, March 22 at the Ginger Man Pub in Fort Worth. The Ginger Man is located at 3716 Camp Bowie Boulevard. We will be meeting at 1:00 p.m., so you can eat there or come well fed already. We are hoping to use this time to get to know each other (many of you will be first-timers) and discuss how to best move our communal learning forward as friends

We decided to try a weekend meeting during the day because several people mentioned that weekday evenings couldn’t work for them. However, we know that this might not work for everyone either. March 22 is Holy Saturday and we recognize that as a part of the holiday weekend, it might be less than convenient for some to meet then, or Saturdays might be bad for you. As such, we would like to know when would be a good time for you to meet so we can create appropriate spaces for our conversations. It would be great if you would use the comments section of this post to tell us when would be good for you to meet (i.e. weeknights after 8pm except Thursdays). I think you folks get the idea.

Have a great couple of weeks, and we hope to see you at The Ginger Man on March 22.

Shane

January 22nd Cohort Gathering

Happy New Year to everybody! We wanted to let everyone know that our next Cohort Gathering will be on Tuesday the 22nd of January. We will be discussing Brain McLaren’s Deep Shift Tour and how we as the Fort Worth Cohort can become involved when he is here in the DFW area. However, if you wanting to get involved before the cohort gathering we here is a link to download some printable flyers and posters to advertise the tour. If you are interested in volunteering as a Fort Worth Cohort member please let us know because there is a reduced registration fee for Cohort volunteers plus you will get the chance to meet the man himself. We will be meeting at the Flying Saucer from 7-9 pm in down town Fort Worth. By clicking here you find the map where The Flying Saucer is located. Don’t parking is free at the meters past 6 and designated Sundance Square parking is free after 5. We hope to see you all there and if you have any questions please feel free to email either Shane or Phil for clarification.

No December Cohort Gathering

Due to the increased chaos of the holiday season we will not have a December Cohort Gathering, but we will pick up where we left off in January. However, we will in the next month be giving regular updates in how we can get involved with The Deep Shift Tour featuring Brian Mclaren. Here is a Youtube video what the Deep Shift Tour is all about.

Emerging Parents

I have asked Melissa, an emerging parent here in the Fort Worth metro area to give a review on the new Emerging Parents Blog that was created out of conversations that were had at the 2007 Emergent Gathering in New Mexico last month.

Review:

As an emerging parent, I have struggled with the unknown of how to do this parenting thing in a more holistic way. We have needed a place to help figure out what it means to even be an emerging parent, and now a really great site has been created to fulfill this desire. Raising a child is a huge undertaking, and it helps to have a community of people who are going through the same things alongside you. For the next few months, we will engage in topics such as discipline, family traditions, children in church, and education. Join in the journey – I think it will be a lot of fun!

If you have any questions for Melissa feel free to email her by clicking here