Final Schedule - Summer Institute
The Summer Institute is able to function through the volunteer efforts of many people and financial support from Fuller Seminary, Zondervan, Baker, Josey-Bass Publishers, Youth Specialties, and ILIFF.
Below is the final schedule for the Summer Institute. If you are interested in signing up, please click here. If you have any questions, please forward them to the Summer Institute email. Looking forward to seeing you there!
| Homosexuality and Emergent Churches | Monday, June 5, 2006 | |
| Host: Jenell Williams Paris Offering days: Monday, June 5 Offering time: 6:30-8:30 pm. Feel free to bring your dinner along! Offering description: Many denominations and individual congregations are in active conflict over the issue of homosexuality. How might we create fresh ways to move beyond the liberal/conservative impasse? I will present themes and questions from queer theory that perhaps could inform Christian theology and church practice. Our session will mostly involve group discussion based on our local contexts and experiences, focused toward ways we can make a better future regarding sexuality, sexual orientation, and homosexuality in our faith communities. I expect that participants will be of diverse theologies and practices regarding sexuality. I will encourage an ethos of hospitality in which all voices are welcomed and respected. The most important outcome of the session will be to cultivate friendships and a relational web of people in emerging churches who care about theology and practice regarding sexual identity. | ||
| Transforming Spirituality | From Monday, June 5 to Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: LeRon Shults Offering Days: Monday – Wednesday, June 5-7. Offering Time: Morning & Afternoon - Monday and Tuesday Wednesday morning Offering Description: In this offering we will explore together the dynamics of “transforming spirituality,” both theologically and practically. How can we facilitate experiences of spirituality that are really transforming? How is this related to our need to transform the way we understand “spirituality” itself? As Host I will lead us through a model of spirituality that emphasizes becoming wise, just and free through life with others “in” the divine Spirit. We will also explore the transformative practices of prayer, service and hospitality, through which the Spirit of God fulfills the human desire to know and be known, love and be loved, belong to and be longed-for in peaceful community. Plenty of time will be set aside for concrete discussions related to interpreting (and sharing in) the transformative experience of the Spirit in the contexts of each participant’s community. Before arriving for the Offering, please read the Host’s book “Transforming Spirituality” (co-authored with Steve Sandage), available by mid-May from Baker Academic (bakeracademic.com). Please also bring this book with you. | ||
| Young Professionals Ministry | From Monday, June 5 to Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | |
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| A Leader’s Infrastructure: Personal Stability... | From Tuesday, June 6 to Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host: Brian Dowd Offering Days: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Offering Time: 1:00-4:00 Offering Description: One out of three ministry leaders finish well. The biblical record reflects this and today’s culture accentuates it. Our culture presents us with unprecedented rates of change. The challenge posed to ministry leaders today is to attain lasting stability that can respond to accelerated change. Every leader has a personal leadership infrastructure which includes habits, operating systems, networks of relationships and personal assets. How a leader develops and stewards his or her personal infrastructure makes a noticeable difference in sustainability, spiritual authority and lasting fruit. This course looks at critical concepts to identify and assess your own infrastructure. A heavy emphasis will be put on peer interaction to learn from each other’s “best practices”, encourage one another and perhaps even develop the networks required for sustained leadership. The aim is to have each participant walk away with an elevated perspective, practical application and a clear next step to take that will enhance their leadership and ministry. | ||
| Becoming A Staff Member After God’s Own Heart | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | |
| Host: Tony Myles Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6 Offering Time: 9 AM and 2PM Offering Description: Not only is the culture changing but so is the way that the inside of a church staff works together. The fact is that the battleground for the lost and broken is often won, lost, or forgotten about as a result of the way Christian leaders treat each other. This seminar will address the key factors necessary for all members of a church staff to reflect the heart of God in their service to the church and their relationships with one another. This will involve: * Who does the Lord call each of us to be personally and professionally? * How should a team of different people with varying backgrounds, personalities, and positions ideally look when each member lives out a growing love for God and others? * What does it look like for people who see the culture differently to serve together in the same organization? * Why is the dynamic among staff on different levels of an organizational chart critical to the overall dynamic of a local church? * When might any set of circumstances be considered justification for an individual to emotionally “act out” when pressed by others? * Where in Scripture do we see examples and teaching that is affirming and contrary to the problem, giving emerging insight into possible application? These issues will be creatively and interactively tackled by utilizing biblical principles, prominent Christian wisdom, noted secular thinking, and tangible case studies so that a healthy model for Christ-based leadership is the end result. While this is an important goal in itself, it is also a critical catalyst that contributes towards a healthier church. | ||
| Construction of Local Theologies | From Tuesday, June 6 to Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Terri Elton Offering Days: Tuesday June 6th and Wednesday, June 7th Offering Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Offering Description: Dialog and discussion on lessons missiology (ministry and theology) has to offer; how might local emergent theologies be framed missionally, and how might mission inform and frame our theology? During this gathering time, principles will be offered for shaping local theologies with the desire of opening up a conversation about how such ideas might shape and define local faith communities with grass roots theology. | ||
| Emerging Youth Ministry | From Tuesday, June 6 to Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Tony Jones and Will Penner Offering Days: Wednesday & Thursday, June 6-7 Offering Time: Morning Offering Description: The way that we are ministering to adolescents is changing in an emerging context. Many “emerging churches” have no formalized youth ministry, and many conventional churches are rethinking how and why they do youth ministry. Come and join this conversation about the future of youth ministry and what we can learn from emerging churches in this regard. | ||
| God and the New Sciences | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | |
| Host: Doug Pagitt Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6 Offering Time: 6 PM (Dinner) - 9 PM Offering Description: We will discuss the implications and opportunities of understanding God and Christian faith afforded by recent understanding of the way the world is as discovered in science. Topics will include Neurology, Physics, and Cosmology. While this may sound like total “Bill Nye The Science Guy” geekdom, it is not and will be lively and fun (for those of us who like this geeky kind of stuff any way). | ||
| Holistic Living | From Tuesday, June 6 to Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Shelley Pagitt Offering Days: Tuesday and Wednesday Offering Time: 11:30-1:30 (includes a healthy lunch) Offering Description: There is a natural order in the world and a natural rhythm to life. Many people are out of sync with this order and rhythm, and desire to find balance in their daily lives. During our time together we will explore information and practical tips on natural foods, digestion, sleep, movement, breath and other necessities for healthful living. Recommended reading: “What the Bible Says about Healthy Living” by Dr. Rex Russell will be a helpful resource prior to and during the course. | ||
| Mainline Emerging | Tuesday, June 6, 2006 | |
| Host: Nanette Sawyer Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6 Offering Time: 2-5 pm Offering Description: An exploration of the gifts and challenges of planting/growing an emergent church out of mainline contexts. The session will begin with some storytelling about the Wicker Park Grace community (www.wickerparkgrace.net), a new church development in the PC(USA), then lead into open conversation. Topics will likely include developing a Christian center in a pluralistic context, healing from wounds inflicted by Christianity, using poetry and the arts to illuminate and interpret biblical story, the importance of our language about God, including the issue of gender in language. Wicker Park Grace is evolving in an urban neighborhood, striving to be "centered in a generous and dynamic Christianity" (more concerned about our center than our borders) and lovingly engaged with a pluralistic world. We're located in an art gallery, engage with other religions, tend toward contemplative practices, and seek new language and new ways to be centered in Christian understanding and practice. | ||
| The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann | From Tuesday, June 6 to Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Tony Jones Offering Days: Wednesday & Thursday, June 6-7 Offering Time: Afternoon Offering Description: Moltmann is one of the preeminent theologians alive today. Since his watershed Theology of Hope was published in 1964, he has been a bellwether of progressive and innovative theology that combines various sources of inspiration: liberation theology, philosophy, political theory, and ecology, to name a few. As such, Moltmann has much to offer the emerging church, so please join this conversation about his work and theology. | ||
| Art in Christian Community | From Wednesday, June 7 to Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Hosts: Christopher Baker and Luke Hillestad Offering Days: Wednesday and Thursday, June 7 and 8 Offering Time: 2-4 p.m. Offering Description: Our discussions will examine the contemporary and historical roles of art in christian community. We will discuss the process of artistic creation, community collaboration and strategies for forming meaningful relationships with artists outside of the local church community. We will discuss the artistic expressions present in the Solomon's Porch community, review relevant secular artistic currents and invite participants to share their own ideas and community practices. On Thursday evening after the discussion we invite your to join us for dinner and a free trip to the Walker Art Museum. Christopher is currently pursuing a graduate degree in interactive arts at the University of Minnesota. His research and artistic explorations reside at the intersection of media arts, technology and community. Luke is a freelance painter and an Art Director for Solomon's Porch. He is currently finishing a degree in Visual Art and Music Composition at the U of Mn. | ||
| Christian Community and the World Religions | From Wednesday, June 7 to Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host: Matthew Palombo Offering Days: Wednesday & Thursday, June 7-8 Offering Time: 9am-1pm Offering Location: Minneapolis Community and Technical College 1501 Hennepin Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55403 Room L2007 (second floor of the library) Offering Description: This will be a 2-day lecture and discussion on the Christian community and the world religions with a specific emphasis on the role of interfaith language, civic engagement, and interfaith activities. The first day will be primarily lecture on significant principles of interfaith relationships and the world religions; key topics will include reestablishing the sacred world; religious truth statements; religious diversity and government; global interfaith citizenship; and important interfaith principles in the world religions. The second day will focus on the interfaith language of your own Christian community with the goal of establishing meaningful interfaith interaction, dialogue and community in your own city. The second day will be primarily discussion with some lecture. We will eat lunch every day together in downtown Minneapolis. | ||
| Image, Art, and Technology: Multimedia and the... | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Dale Carter Offering Days: Wednesday, June 7 Offering Time: 6 – 7pm Offering Description: This course will examine the importance of image, art, and technology when crafting experiential and multi-sensory worship services. Class participants will also evaluate the effectiveness of current multimedia design, as well as explore cutting-edge resources and methods. This course is ideal for pastors, youth pastors, and worship leaders looking to deepen their appreciation for image, art, and technology in the church context, and who desire to learn new approaches to enhance their worship services. | ||
| So, you're thinking about starting a church, huh? | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Doug Pagitt Offering Days: Wednesday, June 7 Offering Time: 4 PM – 6 PM Offering Description: A discussion on new church starting. Especially good for those who are in the beginning stages of wanting to start a church or are wondering if they should. | ||
| Spirit-Led Leadership | From Wednesday, June 7 to Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Host: Tim Geoffrion Offering Days: Wednesday to Friday, June 7-9 Offering Time: Wednesday afternoon 1:30-4:30 Thursday 9:00-12:00 and 1:30-4:00 p.m. Friday morning, 9:00-12:00 Offering Description: What’s really going to make the Church different? I’m talking about more spiritually alive and functional - more relevant, meaningful, life-changing, grace-filled, missional, energizing, life-giving, satisfying. There is not one simple answer, of course. But one thing is sure: at the core of a spiritually vital church are spiritually vital leaders. This Offering explores helpful ways to relate to God that energize us rather than de-motivate or weigh us down, and practical ways to become more effective spiritual leaders who create spiritually vital church/work environments. We will interact with insights from spiritual life coaching, biblical teaching, and proven leadership practices and soul principles. There will be many opportunities to talk with peers about vision, obstacles, feeling stuck, and getting unstuck. Before arriving, please read the Host’s recent book, The Spirit-Led Leader, which may be ordered on Amazon or directly from The Alban Institute (www.alban.org). To read more about the Host’s thoughts and background, check out www.spirit-ledleader.com. | ||
| The Apostle Paul:Male Supremacist or Pioneering... | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | |
| Host: Christians for Biblical Equality Location of offering: CBE's International Office (The Minnesota Church Center, 122 W. Franklin Ave, Suite 218, Minneapolis, MN 55404) Time of Offering: Wed June 7th, from 2- 3 pm Offering Description: For centuries Christians have citied the apostle Paul as the biblical basis for excluding women from teaching and leadership positions in the Church. This offering will explore Paul?s spiritual journey from Pharisee to feminist, noting the radical vocation of Paul who worked beside women, slaves and other untouchables in building Christ's kingdom. | ||
| Becoming Human: A Spiritual Theology for the... | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host: Mike King Offering Days: Friday, June 8 Offering Time: TBD Offering Description: Much of Spiritual Theology has either been over simplified and formed through behavioral modification pedagogies or has become veiled in abstraction. Could it be that “our pursuit” to be “like God” is the cause of much of the dysfunction in our Christian lives and Church Communities? Perhaps Jesus came to “dwell among us” to show us how to become fully human. Maybe this is what people around us are desperate to experience – spirituality that embraces the sacred in the totality of life experiences and issues. This seminar will look at a Spiritual Theology that goes beyond cliché, comfort, self, and the hyper-spiritualization of the Christian life. We will explore a spirituality that is visible, authentic, holistic, encompassing the fullness of life – a perichoresis with God. | ||
| Emerging Elsewhere: postColonialism and the... | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host: Luke Miller Offering Days: Thursday, June 8 Offering Time: 7 – 9 p.m. (2 hours) Offering Description: All over this ever-shrinking globe, conversations parallel to ours are happening, conversations of emergence. What does it mean to be the church in the postcolonial Global South? This offering will provide a brief introduction to the historio-cultural context of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, an overview of the prominent voices in the emerging conversation, and a discussion of how the church in the Global North can form healthy partnerships with the church that is emerging elsewhere. | ||
| Exploring and Inhabiting the Message of Jesus | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host Name: Mark Scandrette Offering Days: Thursday June 8 Offering Time: 9 a.m to 2 P.M. It is often said that each generation must creatively engage with the gospel to discover why the gospel of Jesus is good news for our time. Many of us are asking, “What is the message of Jesus and how might we integrate the message into our lives in the here and now? As a trickster and provocateur, Jesus announced the availability of a new kind of life by declaring “The Time has Come. The Kingdom of God is at hand.” And he called for a visceral existential response: “Repent and Believe the Good News.” (Mark 1:15) If we are being invited into collaboration with God in the restoration of creation, which of our cultural assumptions and habits need subverted and dismantled to inhabit “The way?” How can we be awakened in our imaginations and animated in our bodies to live as seekers of God’s kingdom? This workshop will explore the message of Jesus and the task of connecting the goodnews of the kingdom to the details of our lives in the present by: • EMBRACING OUR LIVES AND OUR TIMES AS A GIFT AND SACRED TRUST • PURSUING THE RESTORATION OF CREATION • SURRENDERING TO IMAGINE A NEW WAY OF LIFE. • ACTING WITH INTENTION TO PURSUE LIFE UNDER THE RULE AND REIGN OF GOD | ||
| Justice in the Burbs | From Thursday, June 8 to Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Host: Will Samson Offering Days: Thursday & Friday, June 8-9 Offering Time: 1-3 p.m. Offering Description: For those who are living in a suburban context, living a life of justice to the poor and the disenfranchised seems like a great idea. The only problem? We don’t know anyone that fits that description, and suburbia seems designed to keep those kinds of questions far away from us. So, how do we live a life of justice in the “burbs”? | ||
| Radical Contentment and Generosity in an Age of... | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host: Mark Scandrette Offering Days: Thursday June 8 Offering Time: 3-4:30 P.M. Money and material prosperity is arguably the god of our time. Material consumption is an instinctive unexamined tendency of contemporary culture. Jesus warned “You cannot serve both God and money.” How can we renegotiate our relationship to money and possessions to live more fully in the adventure of God’s kingdom? This offering will include practical discussion about financial values, generosity, budgeting, frugality and simplicity. | ||
| Reading the Questions: Interpreting the Bible... | From Thursday, June 8 to Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Host: Russell Rathbun Offering Days: Thursday and Friday Offering Time: 10 am to noon Offering Description: The Bible is the holy book of our people and becomes the Word of God when read in community. With conversations partners from within and outside the tradition we will explore interruptive methods that seek to undo assumed readings of the text and seek the living, radically relating God. | ||
| The Practice of Parenting | Thursday, June 8, 2006 | |
| Host: Carla Barnhill Day: Thursday, June 8 Time: 6-8 p.m. When we think of parenting as a job, a role, a task, or even a calling, we miss out on the ways in which God shapes us through parenthood. This offering will focus on the language we use when we talk about parenting in the church and the impact of that language on parents. We'll talk about the emotional and spiritual fallout that comes from the tremendous pressure parents experience within Christian culture and imagine new perspectives on parenthood. | ||
| A Feminist Critique of Christian Faith and the... | Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Host: Mimi Haddad, President of Christians for Biblical Equality Location: Mimi Haddad's living room (email cbe@cbeinternational.org for directions) . Mimi will serve coffee, tea and dessert to all guests. Time of Offering: Friday June 9, 7-8 PM Offering Description: Over one century ago, Christian abolitionists sought to free the slaves and in doing so they leveled a valid critique of the theological support for slavery from the Church. Just as the abolitionists offered a thoughtful and biblical critique of proslavery Christian rhetoric, one of the greatest challenges to the Church today is the critique coming from radical and Christian feminists alike. This offering is a dialogue, in my home, where we explore the similarities between the abolitionist and feminist critique of Christian faith. | ||
| Straight Talk about Publishing Your Nonfiction... | Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Host: Julianna Gustafson Offering Days: Friday, June 9 Offering Time: 1:00 - 3:00 Offering Description: Did you know that 175,000 books are published in the United States every year, and only 10% sell more than 10,000 copies? How does this reality influence publishing decisions? What are the implications for aspiring authors? This offering will be an informal conversation about getting your book published in today's competitive market. We'll talk about what publishers look for in a book proposal, making yourself attractive to publishers, the "Christian" market vs. the "general" market, the value of a literary agent, and the author's role in marketing and promoting the book. | ||
| The Jesus Dojo: Making a Life in the Way | Friday, June 9, 2006 | |
| Host: Mark Scandrette Offering Days: Friday June 9 Offering Time: 9-2 Offering description: A dojo is literally “a place of the way” where a particular path is taught and practiced. In a dojo, formation and transformation occur through exercises of mind and body and the words and example of a master. A Karate or Aikido dojo, a gym or dance studio are all examples of places where people learn a new way through instruction, example, exercise and surrender. What might it look like for a community of faith to function as a “Jesus dojo?” One of the significant critiques of Christian faith in our time is the conspicuous absence of distinctive character and generative behavior among people of faith. In post Christendom cultures the apologetic of an inhabited community may prove to be the most provocative and effective statement of the message that “a new kind of life is now possible!” The earliest disciples of Jesus described themselves as “followers of the way” and Jesus himself declared, “I am the way.” St. Paul encouraged his readers to follow “The way” of love. In our time many of us long, not only for a “way of belief” but also a “way of life.” We search for a spiritual path that seeks to integrate every dimension of our relationships and being. How might we pursue “the way of Jesus” in our time as individuals and communities-- without being prescriptive, simplistic or naïve? In this conversation we will explore intentional and communal practices that may be helpful to integrating the message and teachings of Jesus into our everyday lives. We will also look at dynamics and monastic practices in communities of faith that facilitate such transformations. We will also investigate six dimensions of Jesus’ teaching and example: Community, Service, Creativity, Simplicity, Obedience and Prayer. | ||
| Making a Life in the Way of Jesus | Saturday, June 10, 2006 | |
| Host: Mark Scandrette Offering Day: Saturday June 10 Offering Time: 9-2 P.M. This is a concentrated offering that combines the concepts of both of my intensives (see above) on Saturday from 9-2 (if there are at least 8 people interested) | ||
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