The importance of understanding our past (in the church) has come up in several threads I've read lately.

Would anyone be interested in reading and discussing a chapter called "The Genesis of the Church" by church historian, Roger Haight? 

What I was thinking was that, if there is interest, we could read and discuss it, focusing especially on its relevance to things that are happening now, like the Emerging Church movement for example.

I placed a free copy of the chapter (from Google) at this link: http://wondercafe.ca/blogs/rishi/what-church  if you want to take a look at it. 

If you're interested in this, let me know, and we can figure out a pace for reading.  The chapter is 70 pages.