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Things are moving along swimmingly at Smyth & Helwys. The official title of our book is: “Baptimergent: Baptist Stories from the Emergent Frontier.”
The similarities in title to Tony Jones’ book “The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier,” are intentional. These are tradition-specific dispatches if you will. Stories that are a smattering of a larger multitude of creative, imaginative voices out there among Baptists today.
The irony in the title is that the publisher and I joked about the word “baptimergent” being cumbersome and downright ugly. The fact that it made the title is a lesson of its own. This is a cumbersome and ugly plight — this thing we call emergence. Then again, so is any birthing process.
The book is set for publication in March 2010. I am in the process of getting endorsements, and Tim Conder is wrapping up the Afterward. Tony Jones has already gotten his endorsement in. I hope the book will get yours once it hits the shelves. I’ll have more updates coming soon.
Teaser: Tripp Fuller and I also have some plans underway to do a podcast series with all the chapter writers on Homebrewed Christianity. I’ll be sharing those names and bios later on once the content gets finalized for publication.
Stay tuned!
At least on my end…for now.
This Baptimergent book project, tentatively entitled, “Baptist Stories of Emergence,” began back in 2008 when I convinced Keith Gammons, Vice President of Production for Smyth & Helwys, of the idea. Keith and I began talking about a book dealing with emergence among Baptists while at the 2008 True Survivors Conference hosted by CBF (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship) and held at FBC Asheville, NC. Tony Jones was the presenter for that conference, discussing his recent book The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier.
It has been a long journey to get to this point. We’ve got a little further to go. It will be several months before the book goes into production. As I suspected, the project evolved into something a bit different from what I had planned. My purpose from the start was to introduce some new Baptist voices into the greater discourse on church, spirituality, theology, and practice. That is the one thing that didn’t change, and I feel good about how we accomplished it.
I will keep you posted on the rest of the process. There will also be a number of promotional projects underway soon. More details about content and writers will be forthcoming as well.
Stay tuned.
I am trying to get on the ball with this book I am to write and edit on Emergent Baptists for Smyth & Helwys Publishing. Several of you have responded with interest to my request for writers on the “Baptimergent Book” page.
A point of clarification. If there are chapters that interest you as a writer, they need to intersect with your own story of emergence. Where not defining and defending positions with this book. We are talking about how we have emerged from the Baptist tradition as something other than the dominant categories of the 20th century. The chapters are there to specify various elements of our identity, but they have to be actually connected to your identity, and not just something you know about, or are willing to research.
You can download a copy of the table of contents on the “Baptimergent Book” page. I have some writers lined up, so consider a couple chapters that you could write out of your own story of emergence. I’ll be in touch soon if I have an assignment for you.
E-mail me your interests. Thanks!
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