In deep partnership with the Parish Collective (the same partnership hosting the Inhabit Conference) The Seattle School has recently announced a new think-tank for leaders seeking integrate mission and formation.   The Leadership in the New Parish think-tank is open to ministry leaders who are seeking to deepen their personal practices of holistic-place-based living and seeking to guide their church/organization into even deeper missional practices within their neighborhood.  It is open to leaders – regardless of their educational background – the only requirement is the longing to enter into a peer learning environment to deepen our practices rooting in place. The think-tank functions as certificate program earning leaders continuing education units.

I only wish that a such a program existed when I was church-planting and leading the missional community.

We’ve recently begun to accept applications.

peace, dwight

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 the Art of Happiness, by Ellen T. Charry

4.  Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice, by Herbert Reid & Betsy Taylor

5.  Christ the Key, by Kathryn Tanner

6.  The Pastor: A Memoir, by Eugene H. Peterson

7.  The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission: Towards an Evangelical Political Theology, by David E. Fitch

8. Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love, by Mark Scandrette

9. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church, by William T. Cavanaugh

10. Missional Spirituality: Embodying God’s Love from the Inside Out, by Roger Helland & Leonard Hjalmarson

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2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Peace, dwight

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 the new parish? How might we form collaborative, ecumenical, and holistic practices that knit together justice, relationships of trust, and spiritual vitality?

Ultimately, how can we lead in a way that empowers others to join together on behalf of the reconciliation and renewal of livable places?  Join us for Inhabit 2012 as we gather practitioners from across the country to uncover the practicalities of sustainable ministry leadership for the 21st century parish.

Register today for only $99!

We’re so excited about the Inhabit Conference this year, we wanted to let a few in early. Hurry, only 100 seats available at this rate!

Use the promo code PARISH at checkout, REGISTER

Peace, dwight

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, governing bodies were notified, a new web domain was secured, email addresses updated, stationery was designed and ordered, and as you can see we have updated our brand to better reflect our identity.

Our new name will now carry our important mission and work into the future.  And may God continue to bless our efforts to train people to be competent in the study of text, soul and culture in order to serve God and neighbor through transforming relationships.

Important Info:

• Our new web address is theseattleschool.edu
• Email addresses: First Initial Last Name @theseattleschool.edu – emails sent to @mhgs.edu will be forwarded on for several months.
• Building signage updates are coming this week.
• For short, please utilize “The Seattle School” as opposed to our new initials TSS or TSSTP.

Peace, dwight

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:

464 – 147th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007

Mark Scandrette is an author, teacher, activist and net-worker among innovative Christian leaders. His books include Practicing The Way of Jesus (IVP 2011) and Soul Graffiti (Jossey-Bass 2007). Mark is the founding director of ReIMAGINE: A Center for Life Integration based in San Francisco, where he leads an annual series of retreats, learning labs and projects designed to help participants integrate the teachings of Jesus into everyday life through shared practices and intentional community experiments. He and his wife Lisa and their three children live in the Mission District of San Francisco.

Mark’s most recent book, Practicing the Way of Jesus, presents the need for active and embodied spirituality in a culture of disbelief and offers a creative approach to spiritual formation that is intensely practical, combining the best contemporary thinking on kingdom theology with real life stories of people taking risks to practice the Way of Jesus together. For more information visit www.Jesusdojo.com

Peace, dwight

This gathering will bring together innovative missional practitioners from neighborhoods across the country  to empower, encourage, and engage each other around practicing the way of Jesus in place.

Mar Hill Graduate School, Parish Collective and TransFORM are putting this event together with the support of many other organizations.

Speakers, facilitators & workshops leaders include:  Majora Carter, Brenda Salter McNeil, Bruce Reyes-Chow, David Fitch, Kathy Escobar,Tony Kriz, Rose Swetman, mark Scandrette, Tim Condor, Karen Wilk, Anothy Smith, Tom Sine, Clark Blakeman, Ron Czecholinski, Brandon Rhodes, and more.

I hope to see you there.

Peace, dwight

We’re going to hang out on Thursday evening @ my place and I want to invite you to join in the conversation around missional church, transformation and place.  Even if we’ve never met you’re welcome to swing by.

Come on over this Thursday evening, January 27th,  7:00pm – 9:00pm.  Bring chocolate or beverages.

464 – 147th Place NE, Bellevue, WA

peace, dwight

Peace, dwight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyYjI7zQlaA

Come join Jon in exploring how Christian faith can be a source of hospitality rather than hostility, one that opens a space for meaningful conversation between religious and secular people, and increased traffic between religious and secular thought, in our pluralistic society.

February 9, 2011, Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm @ MHGS

Three organizations are partnering together to bring Dr. Jon Stanley to Seattle to guide us into this important conversation exploring our changing context(s):

Parish Collective’s “Pedagogy of Presence” Series

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MHGS’s “Alumni Speaker Series,”

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The Other Journal’s “God is Dead and I don’t Feel So Good Myself”

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I hope to see you there.

Peace, Dwight

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 Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral

5. John O’Keefe’s Boneyard: Creatives Will Change the Way We Lead in the Church

6. Andrew David, Chris Keller, & Jon Stanley’s “God Is Dead” and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself: Theological Engagements With the New Atheism

7. Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove & Enuma Okoro’s Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

8. John  McKnight & Peter Block’s The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

9. Walter Brueggemann’s Journey to the Common Good

10. Jurgen Moltmann’s Sun of Righteousness, Arise!  God’s Future for Humanity and the Earth

2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

Peace, dwight