Richard Rohr on the Emerging Church

Here’s a video teaser in which Spencer Burke (off camera) chats with Richard Rohr about some of ideas underpinning the upcoming The Emerging Church conference in March, which is basically a “gathering of the tribes” — Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, Evangelical — for a weekend of visioning and community-building.

I must confess to sharing the sense, that Rohr speaks of in this video clip, of sometimes feeling more at home with non-Catholics who are engaged in the emergent conversation, than with my fellow Catholics when they seem to be invested in a neo-conservative attempt to roll back Vatican II — preferring a nostalgic view of the church, to the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ. Of course, there are those Anglicans, Protestants and Evangelicals who appear to prefer idolatrous ecclesiologies to the gospel as well, so that problem is not limited to Catholics by any stretch. But hopefully, in bringing together Christians of different “tribes” who share a common hunger to discern the will of the Holy Spirit, we can all be nurtured in a shared sense of our call to be the body of Christ in our day.