We have chosen as our image and metaphor for Emerging Christianity the symbol of the New Zealand “koru fern.”

I found this primitive fern everywhere in my visits to that country. The New Zealanders take the koru as their native symbol of unfolding, growth, and the endless generative nature of their people and their islands.

For us, it also unites one major unfolding, the Christ Mystery, with the many smaller unfoldings that are the various traditions and denominations of Christianity. They all grow together and all broaden and enrich one another, just as Paul said of the parts of the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12).

~ Fr. Richard Rohr