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

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

The grill, and condiments will be here, but food and drinks are up to those who show up.  So bring something to share, and maybe a lawn chair, if you have one.

I’m a bit of a cigar/scotch nut, so, if you wish you’d be welcome to bring a stogy, or your favorite distilled beverage.

And since the next day is the beginning of school for all in my family we will shut things promptly  down at 8:00 pm.  Hope you can join in.

464 – 147th Place NE, Bellevue, WA

peace, dwight

Like prior EV theological conversations, academic luminaries will enter into conversation with pastors – no notes, no papers delivered, no formality – simply a conversation about things that matter.
Past scholars include: Nancey Murphy, Dallas Willard, Stanley Hauerwas, Walter Brueggemann, Miroslav Volf, John Caputo, Richard Kearney, and most recently Jürgen Moltmann.

This year in Atlanta, November 1-3, 2010, Musa Dube, Richard Twiss and Colin Greene will enter into conversation with practitioners exploring:

Postcolonialism & the Missional Future of the Church

What is “Missional” in a postcolonial world?  Can hardly wait!

Follow the event details on Facebook.

Peace, Dwight

In preparation for this summer’s learning journey, I’ve been working on this class with the people behind The Parish Collective; especially Paul Sparks, Tim Sorens and Ben Katt.

Gonna call the course: “Body Of Christ: Rediscovering the Local Parish as Embodied Witness”

It will consider the church’s catholicity through focused attention on particularity.  Given that the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ was a radically particular event with universal reach this course will explore the implications of the church as the Body of Christ; more specifically the course will engage six Seattle-area churches and their missional quests to live in mutually transformative relationships given the particularity of their respective locations.  Leaders from each church will guide us on walking tours of their respective neighborhood, offering us a glimpse into their story of learning to become and experience Good News in their neighborhood.  In some ways this selected reading class will focus on reading our churches and our neighborhoods as much as on reading books.  Here’s are the written texts we’ll be reading:

• Richard Flodia’s, Who’s your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of your Life.
• Timothy Gorringe’s, A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption.
• Robert Lupton’s, Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor.
• Charlene Spretnak’s,  The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World.
• Parker Palmer’s, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life.

Peace, dwight

Tim Conder

Dan Rhodes

Check out the schedule . . . it promises to be an amazing opportunity to conversationally connect with thoughtful people around Scripture in community.

I will be participating in the event myself and look forward to seeing you there.  Again, here is the link to the Free for All Conference.

Peace, dwight

Thursday, March 25 @ 7:00PM

As you may know, John has published a number of other books including:

- Barth for Armchair Theologians,

- The Character of Theology: An Introduction to Its Nature, Task, and Purpose,

- Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture),

And of course John co-authored Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context with the late Stan Grenz which has aided so many re-imagine theology.

I hope you’ll join in.

Peace, dwight

You can find out more information on dates in other cites and ticket info here.

Peace, dwight

Dwight’s top 10

1. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
2. Curse Your Branches by David Bazan
3. Noble Beast by Andrew Bird
4. Sleep Off The Hiway by Human Cargo
5. Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
6. Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle by Bill Callahan
7. The BQE by Sufjan Stevens
8. Fantasies by Metric
9. Embryonic by The Flaming Lips
10. No Line On The Horizon by U2

Peace, dwight

Seth Godin

Peace, dwight