Overview of Emergent/Missional in Australia

John Smulo has interviewed Paul Teusner who is doing is PHD on emerging bloggers in Australia. Forge gets a good mention in the article.

“The FORGE Network is a growing organization which works to equip leaders to seek new ways of being the church in postmodern Australia. Many bloggers in my research have some connection to or involvement in FORGE and its staff publish many books on the emerging church. So it’s kinda like what Emergent is to the emerging church in the USA. Though many would say that FORGE is the flagship of the Australian emerging church, no one would say (including FORGE) that it speaks for the movement at large.”

The article is pretty informative on the emerging/emergent scene. One point that I think the leadership at Forge would make would be a distinction between ‘Missional’ and ‘Emergent’. Forge leadership would prefer to use the ‘Missional’ language than ‘Emergent’. Hammo over at backyard missionary gives a good overview of the distinction for Forge.