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The Emergent Church movement, organized with the help of a Twin Cities pastor, is being called one of 

 three "channels the adversary is using to bring America down,"

The loose network of evangelical Christians, part of the Emergent Church Network, say they are trying to rethink religion and shape it to modern life.

Art Ally, president of Florida-based mutual fund company The Timothy Plan, focuses on biblically responsible investing and is leading the discussion at the summit. He says the other adversaries are Islam and communism.

"These guys don't even talk about sin for fear it's driving away the postmodern generation," Ally 

. "The Emergent Church has watered down biblical Christianity to the point that John the Baptist would have been shocked."

The pastor at Solomon's Porch in Minneapolis, Doug Pagitt, helped create the Emergent Church Network. He 

 he believes there shouldn't be a hierarchy within the church.

"This tendency for Christians to see themselves as the most elite of the spiritual people in the world is not only distasteful to a lot of us but it's sort of maddening, because that image has been well-earned over the last 50 years -- that Christians speak as if they're the elite, they're the believers and everybody else are the non-believers," he said. 

Nadia Bolz-Weber, pastor of ELCA church House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, is a rising voice in the movement. She will be 

 to speak at Central Lutheran Church about her new memoir, "Pastrix: the Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint."

Bolz-Weber and Pagitt join The Daily Circuit to discuss their faith and religious practice.

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