mike hill is the bishop of bristol and has started blogging fairly recently. rather than rushing to endorse his blog i have waited to see how it develops. some newbie bloggers have an initial bout of enthusiasm and then it all dries up. but mike seems to be proving he has what it takes to stick around in the blogosphere so i have added him to my blog links and newsreader to follow along.

in particular he is raising some pretty important questions around how the emerging church relates to the institutional church, how money sits in the equation, and how accountability might work or not. the exchanges in the comments are well worth a look. there are of course more questions than answers and what is intersting is that as soon as you ask a question about say accountability or money in the emerging church it immediately raises the question for the way money and accountability works for the institutional church. anyway these are three of the posts that track the conversation…

can we expect emerging churches to emerge in an institutional context?
paid ministry
accountability