Letting others speak for me

O.k., I’ve been meaning to give some more commentary on Tuesday’s activities around the Seeds of Compassion event.  Apparently I’ve waited long enough for others to have written thorough and helpful commentary . . . so in the interest of avoiding redundancy, if you’re interested in finding out more about the Prayer Breakfast with the [...]

The Wacky Emerging Church: Reason #2.76

This post is part of a continuing series. You may want to read my list of disclaimers and intro remarks here, if you haven’t done so already.
Reason #2.76: The other white meat
Sad, but true, folks. White dudes with money are still pretty much in control. If you took a poll of emerging church [...]

Weekend wrap-up

Well, I’m sitting here, finally at a place to unwind a little after the past few days.  They were good, good days, to be sure, but definitely full, and thought-full, and tiring.
The conference was very good.  In some ways, it was a lot like many events I’ve been to over the past eight or nine [...]

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 7

I’m in a workship session on: “Social Entrepeneurship: Using Business to Advance God’s Kingdom”
- Not tons of new information - a lot of the companies that are out there (i.e. Pura Vida coffee, Ben & Jerry’s, Grameen Bank) are well known. However, it’s been a really good group discussion, dispelling a lot of the [...]

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 6

Morning session, with Efrem Smith as the keynote on “The Beloved Church / The Beloved Community.”  So many money quotes.
- What a bunch of 20-something kids of European descent are calling the “emerging church” isn’t new.  Unnamed slaves were living missional and monastic lifestyles a long time ago.
- “In the church,we won’t even call Martin [...]

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 5

Wow, I’m tired.  Loooong day.  We were rocking by 8:30am, and I just got home at about 10pm.  There was a little down time in mid-day, but not much.
People were encouraged to get out and walk the streets of the Seattle this afternoon, specifically in four neighborhoods: Fremont, Rainier Valley, Greenwood, and Lake City.  [...]

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 4

“We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.”
~painted on the wall of the New Jerusalem community in Philadelphia, as reported by Shane Claiborne

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 3

Just finished lunch. Attended a workshop on some missional movements going on in Latin America. Very, very exciting stuff. I’m really stoked that much of the renewal of the theology and expressions of church is getting outside of the Western world. Go check out La Red del Camino. I’m really [...]

Blogging the New Conspirators, part 2

Sitting here with Mark Van Steenwyk.
Morning session with some great music, and a panel discussion with Mark Scandrete, Tom Yaccino, Kathy Escobar, and Tom Morey. They spoke to various streams in the new way of approaching faith in the way of Jesus - the emerging church, the monastic, the mosaic, and the missional. [...]

pre-conference quickies

Hi all.  I’m getting ready to head out the door, but I wanted to note a couple of things.  First, some of those people I linked in my previous post will be blogging the conference, so check them out for updates.
Second - a tip of the hat to the conference organizers.  In the obligatory goodie [...]