If you know me at all, then you know how passionate I am about the mission of the grad school where I get to teach. You may have already heard that The Seattle School was recently awarded a grant to bridge the gap that often exists between on-the-ground ministry leaders and seminary education. In deep [...]
Here’s my list for 2011 (have a listed a few books published last year that I didn’t get to until 2011) . . . no particular order: 1. Loving to Know: Covenant Epistemology, by Esther L. Meek 2. The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture, by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove 3. God and [...]
Inhabit: Leadership in the New Parish April 20-21, 2012, Seattle, WA Last year the Inhabit Conference “Sold Out!” Hundreds of parish leaders gathered to celebrate the move toward a more embodied, participatory, and sustainable way of being the church. This incarnational awakening is calling forth important new questions about leadership: What does leadership look like in [...]
I’m excited to inform you that as of the beginning of last week we officially changed the name of our school – Mars Hill Graduate School is now The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. The staff has been hard at work these past months as we prepared for this change. Official documents were changed, [...]
On June 30, 2011 (Thursday) you are welcome to come over to my place and spend the evening with others committed to being formed in the Way of Jesus. Mark Scandrette will be with us, 7:00 pm (bring wine and/or chocolate). Anyone interested in the conversation is welcome to show up. We’re at my home: [...]
There is a tectonic shift happening under the surface of the church in North America. Parishioners are returning to the parish. The greater our individual mobility extends, the greater the world’s longing and need for a faith that can be lived out collectively – where we can be present… where there is an embodied practice… [...]
My friend Steve Knight is going to be in the Seattle area this week. You may know his blog, knightopia, Steve is one of the primary organizers of TransFORM which held its first big conference in DC last year. And he is coming to town in part to collaborate with Parish Collective & Mars Hill Graduate School on [...]
Here’s another great TED talk delivered by Majora Carter. Peace, dwight
Navigating the cacophonous choruses of our culture’s religious and secular fundamentalists can be overwhelming. What does it mean for Christians to be salt and light in this acrimonious cultural climate? How might Christians live faithfully without colluding with partisan shouting? Are there more productive atheisms and theisms than we find in their contemporary resurgent forms? [...]
Here’s my list for 2010 . . . no particular order: 1. James K. A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation 2. James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World 3. Elizabeth Hun Schmidt’s The Poets Laureate Anthology 4. Thomas Long’s [...]