Baker Books is preparing to publish An Emergent Manifesto of Hope in April 2007, and they’ve posted a PDF excerpt from it online which includes the table of contents, Tony Jones’ introduction, and two chapters (one from Barry Taylor and one from Sally Morgenthaler).
Other books in the new Emersion imprint of Baker include Kester Brewin’s Signs of Emergence (July 2007) and Will and Lisa Samson’s book Justice in the Burbs (August 2007).
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.