Thanks, Darrell, for a rare, even-handed, judicious and balanced assessment of the "emergents."  So many writers and speakers come immediately to mind who are either clearly for or against the movement and many of them seem largely unaware how almost artificial it is to even call it a movement.  Yes a few well known individuals, several who pastor high-profile, creative churches, do frequently wind up at the same conferences together or even organizing them but that's about it.  And yes there is some unnecessary rejection of historic doctrines, often (though not always) through misrepresentation or misunderstanding of those doctrines, but the large body of the writings and ministries of the people usually lumped together as "emergent" exudes a passion to reach younger adults today for Christ in ways that many of the rest of us aren't doing.  And for that we can only be grateful!