Around the world, Christianity has created environments where certain people and groups have encountered religious trauma and plain non-acceptance as church members. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, The Emergent Church Movement, champions by the likes of the late Phyllis Tickle and many others, spread through much of the Christian world, creating safe spaces to question one’s beliefs, unpack religious trauma, and spaces centered on building true friendships. Unfortunately, due to several issues and mostly mainline denominations feeling their power threating by the movement, the movement had its fires kindled and finally extinguished. What was left were a few books, and most importantly the former youth that were involved in emergent youth programs. Some 20 years later, some of those very former youth from The Episcopal Church’s branch of the Emergent Church, who had become leaders in The Episcopal Church themselves, found a Church that was missing the friendships, the Love, and Spirit of their youth. They realized that the time had come to revisit some of the theology and worship ideas of The Emergent Church Movement. After studying the movement at length and asking lots of people why they were leaving Churches, The Emergent Catholic Church was born.