Here is the email that will go out to participants and presenters tomorow.
Summer Institute participant,
My name is Doug Pagitt, I am the host of the Summer Institute.
I am excited that you are part of this inaugural event for Emergent. I am personally looking forward to the event for its content, but mostly for the time we will have to be together.
As you know Emergent is a friendship, and our time together will give an opportunity to build connections and friendship.
As you may be aware we are attempting a model of meeting that is new to all of us. So please bear with us as we all work out the details. There are great benefits from this decentralized approach, but there are some things that will be missed as well – like all the good things that come from control.
But, I am confident that the benefits will outweigh and outlast the drawbacks.
I am thrilled that we are able to host the Institute at Solomon’s Porch and for the people of our community to interact with friends from around the world (we have Institute participants from Canada and Brazil in addition to the United State). We have offered for Solomon’s Porch people to attend events so you should have a chance to meet and interact.
This email includes the base schedule, the list of offerings, and directions to our facility and a few “odds and ends”.
Children:
If you are hoping for help with your children please confirm this as soon as possible by sending an email to [email protected].
Offerings:
If you paid for the “Hold My Place Option” please go into the registration system and sign-up for your offerings as soon as possible. You will receive a refund of your $25 at the event.
If you want to add additional offerings before next week, go into the system and do so.
If you decide you would like to attend additional offerings during the week that is fine, check-in at the information table and let us know. You will be able to pay at that time with a check made payable to Emergent or we will register you through the system.
There is a daily list of offerings at the end of this email.
Food:
Thanks to the support of Fuller Seminary, Zondervan, Baker, Josey-Bass Publishers, Youth Specialties, and ILIFF we will have a light breakfast, lunch and snacks each day at the building. You are welcome to hang around the building for the day if you like.
The building does have a wireless connection and plenty of couches to relax in.
We will create a list of dinner options each night, Wednesday night we will have cookout together, but the other nights you will be on your own or can go in groups.
Each evening there will also be some fun options available, we will give a list each day, but plan on a little “lawn bowling” on Thursday.
Daily Schedule:
8:30 AM – Walk around Lake Harriet (2.7 miles) http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=4&parkid=266
9:00 AM – Breakfast opens
12:00 PM – Lunch opens
6:30 PM – Dinner Options – list each day of fun, good places.
9:00 PM – Evening options (list available upon arrival, Thursday’s outing will be a bit earlier for Lawn Bowling).
If you have something to add to the daily rhythm please bring it. This event should build as the week progresses.
Recordings:
If you want to record the offerings you are part of check with the host and the other participants to see if it is ok with them. If it is and you want to podcast the recording please let me, Doug, know so that we can link others to it. If you record it and want me to podcast it, just burn it on a disk and give it to me.
Direction to Solomon’s Porch:
We are located in South Minneapolis at 100 West 46th Street. www.solomonsporch.com
That is the corner of 46th Street and Blaisdell Ave. (For the most part Streets run East/West and Avenues run North/South in Minneapolis).
From Interstate 35 W take the 46th Street exit. Go West 1/3 Mile. The building is on the North side of 46th Street just past Nicollet Ave.
We have no parking lot, but there should be ample street parking.
From Airport.
We are 8 miles form the airport between the airport and downtown.
1. Start going toward the AIRPORT EXIT on GLUMACK DR - go < 0.1 mi
2. Take ramp onto MN-5 EAST toward ST PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS - go 0.8 mi
3. Take the MN-55 exit toward MINNEAPOLIS - go 1.1 mi
4. MN-55 WEST becomes MN-62 WEST - go 3.9 mi
5. Take the I-35W NORTH exit toward MINNEAPOLIS - go 1.8 mi
6. Take exit #13 onto 2ND AVE S toward 46TH ST - go 0.3 mi
7. Turn on 46TH ST - go 0.3 mi
8. Arrive at 100 W 46TH ST, MINNEAPOLIS
The phone number to Solomon’s Porch is 612.874.6555. Doug Pagitt’s cell phone is 612.730.7337.
Offerings by Day.
Monday 6/5
8:30AM - 2 PM Transforming Spirituality part 1 of 3
6-8:30PM Homosexuality & Emergent Churches
Tuesday 6/6
8:30AM - 2 PM Transforming Spirituality part 2 of 3
9AM The Assist: Becoming A Staff Member After God's Own Heart part 1 0f 2
11:30-1:30PM Holistic Living 1 of 2
1-4PM A Leaders Infrastructure: Personal Stability part 1 of 3
2PM The Assist: Becoming A Staff Member After God's Own Heart part 2 0f 2
2-5PM Mainline Emerging
6-9PM God & the New Sciences
6:30-8PM Construction of Local Theologies part 1 0f 2
Wednesday 6/7
8:30AM - 2 PM Transforming Spirituality Part 3 of 3
9AM-1PM Christian Communities & the World Religions part 1of 2
11:30 AM - 1:30 Emerging Youth Ministries 1 of 2
11:30-1:30PM Holistic Living 2 0f 2
1-4PM A Leaders Infrastructure: Personal Stability part 2 of 3
1:30-4:30PM Spirit-Led Leadership part 1 of 4
2PM The Theology of Jurgen Moltmann Part 1 0f 2
2-4PM Art in Christian Community part 1 0f 2
2-3PM The Apostle Paul: Male Supremacist or…
4-6PM So, you're thinking about starting a church, huh?
6-7PM Image, Art, & Technology
6:30-8PM Construction of Local Theologies part 2 of 2
Thursday 6/8
9AM-2PM Exploring & Inhabiting the Message of Jesus
9AM-1PM Christian Communities & the World Religions Part 2 of 2
9AM-12PM Spirit-Led Leadership part 2 of 4
11:30 AM - 1:30 Emerging Youth Ministries 2 of 2
10-12PM Reading the Questions: Interpreting the Bible Part 1 of 2
1-4PM A Leaders Infrastructure: Personal Stability part 2 of 3
1:30-4PM Spirit-Led Leadership Part 3 of 4
2PM The Theology of Jurgen Moltmann Part 2 0f 2
2-4PM Art in Christian Community part 2 of 2
3-4:30PM Radical Contentment and Generosity…
6-8PM The Practice of Parenting
7-9PM Emerging Elsewhere: Postcolonialism…
Friday 6/9
TBA Becoming Human: Spiritual Theology…
9AM-2PM The Jesus Dojo: Making a Life in the Way
9AM-12PM Spirit-Led Leadership Part 4 of 4
10AM-12PM Reading the Questions: Interpreting the Bible Part 2 of 2
1-3PM Straight Talk about Publishing Your Nonfiction
7-9 PM A Feminist Critique of Christian Faith and the...
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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 [email protected] 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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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 LLIFF.
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The following is a partial list. Complete list is at the registration page.
1.) Host Name: Carla Barnhill
Offering Title: Writer’s Workshop
Offering Description: An informal session for anyone who has ever considered writing a book. The session will cover ideas for cultivating ideas, making connections in the publishing world, and developing a proposal. to come with writing samples, book ideas, or works in progress.
Offering Days: Wednesday, June 7
Offering Time: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: 1 unit - $25
Offering Location: The Garret, Solomon's Porch
2.) Host Name: LeRon Shults
Offering Title: Transforming Spirituality
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.
Offering Days: Monday – Wednesday, June 5-7.
Offering Time: Morning & Afternoon - Monday, June 5 and Tuesday June 6
Morning of Wednesday, June 7.
Cost: 3 Units - $75
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
3.) Host Name: Will Samson
Offering Title: Justice in the Burbs
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”?
Offering Days: Thursday & Friday, June 8-9
Offering Time: 1-3 p.m.
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
4.) Host Name: Matthew Palombo
Matthew Palombo is an instructor of philosophy and religion at Minneapolis Community and Technical College – an urban, multicultural and progressive state junior college with over 55% students of color and a large population of international students. He is a covenant participant of the Solomons Porch community in Minneapolis. He and his wife Leah live in south Minneapolis.
Offering Title: Christian Community and the World Religions
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.
Offering Days: Wednesday & Thursday, June 7-8
Offering Time: 9am-1pm
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Minneapolis Community and Technical College
1501 Hennepin Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Room L2007 (second floor of the library)
(MCTC is located in downtown Minneapolis, about 3 miles from Solomon’s Porch. You can pick up a map at the Porch or find directions, campus map and parking info at www.minneapolis.edu)
5.) Host Name: Tony Myles
Offering Title: The Assist – Becoming A Staff Member After God’s Own Heart
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:
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.
Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6
Offering Time: 9 AM and 2PM
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
6.) Host Name: Tony Jones and Will Penner
Offering Title: Emerging Youth Ministry (sponsored by Youth Specialties)
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.
Offering Days: Wednesday & Thursday, June 6-7
Offering Time: Morning
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon's Porch
7.) Host Name: Tony Jones
Offering Title: The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann
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.
Please read at least one book by Moltmann in advance of this offering!
Offering Days: Wednesday & Thursday, June 6-7
Offering Time: Afternoon
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon's Porch
8.) Host Name: Elizabeth Potter
Offering Title: NURTURE: Cultivating Organic Church Plants
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9.) Host Name: Elizabeth Potter
Offering Title: (f)emergent: Care Webs for Emergent Women
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10.) Host Name: Mike King
Offering Title: Becoming Human: A Spiritual Theology for the Emerging Church
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!
Offering Days: Friday, June 8
Offering Time: TBD
Cost: 2 Units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
11.) Host Name: Russell Rathbun
Offering Title: Reading the Questions: Interpreting the Bible with Hints from Derrida and the Ancient Rabbis.
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.
Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6, Thursday, June 8, Friday, June 9
Offering Time: 10 am to noon
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon's Porch
12.) Host Name: William Wilkie
Offering Title: Young Professionals Ministry (Alternative to Youth Specialties content)
Offering Description: In a global world, youth and young professionals (secular) are asking the question, “How do I best live life on planet earth?” They are abandoning the church at age 18+ because the Body of Christ is providing limited the wisdom and little empowerment for their professional lives that is qualitatively better than what the world has to offer. Youth and young professional ministries are meeting the perceived needs for fellowship but not the unperceived need for the Biblical perspective that my work is HOLY as well as the Biblical competencies that will transform their work world. See www.netscope.com/young professionals.pdf for a 10 page white paper that will be the basis of our discussion. Youth ministries in the 21st century will prepare young people to compete and transform their work world locally and globally as we move from the ordained to the ordinary providing leadership in the church. Isn’t this what the kingdom of God was all about?
Come and join this conversation about the future of youth ministries that prepares young people to compete and transform their work world locally and globally.
Offering Days: Monday & Tuesday, June 5-6
Offering Time: Afternoon
Cost: 2 units - $50 (limited to 50 people)
Offering Location: Solomon's Porch
13.) Host Name: Tim Geoffrion
Offering Title: “Spirit-Led Leadership”
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.
Offering Days: Wednesday to Friday, June 7-9
Offering Time: Wednesday afternoon, June 7, 1:30-4:30
Thursday morning 9:00-12:00 and afternoon, June 8, 1:30-4:00 p.m.
Friday morning, June 9, 9:00-12:00.
Cost: 3 units - $75.
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
14.) Host Name: Luke Miller
Luke is the North American Coordinator for the Amahoro Africa Gathering that will take place in East Africa in May 2007.
Offering Title: Emerging Elsewhere: postColonialism and the Emerging Church
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.
Offering Days: Thursday, June 8
Offering Time: 7 – 9 p.m. (2 hours)
Cost: 1 Unit - $25
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
15.) Host Name: Doug Pagitt
Offering Title: God and the New Sciences
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).
Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6
Offering Time: 6 PM (Dinner) - 9 PM
Cost: Free
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
16.) Host Name: Doug Pagitt
Offering Title: So, your thinking about starting a church huh?
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.
Offering Days: Wednesday, June 7
Offering Time: 4 PM – 6 PM
Cost: Free
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
17.) Host Name: Dale Carter (sponsored by WorshipHouseMedia.com)
Dale Carter is an Image and Media Specialist at Igniter Media in Dallas, TX. He also leads the multimedia team at Journey, an emerging community.
Offering Title: Image, Art, and Technology: Multimedia and the Emerging Church
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.
Offering Days: Wednesday, June 7
Offering Time: 6 – 7pm
Cost: Free
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
18.) Host Name: Brian Dowd
This event is sponsored by Fuller Seminary
Brian is a Professional Coach, Founder of Next Step, and the Director of Coaching for ETREK- alternative education model for Biblical Seminary.
Offering Title: A Leader’s Infrastructure: Personal Stability Regardless.
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.
Topics include:
Offering Days: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Offering Time: 1:00-4:00
Cost: 2 units - $50
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
19.) Host Name: Shelley Pagitt, Natural Health Coach
Offering Title: Holistic Living
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.
Offering Time: Tuesday and Wednesday 11:30-1:30 (Includes a Healthy Lunch)
Offering Cost: $ 50 (2 units)
Offering Location: Movement Studio @ Solomon's Porch
20.) Host Name: Julianna Gustafson
Offering Title: Straight Talk about Publishing Your Nonfiction Book
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.
Offering Days: Friday, June 9
Offering Time: 1:00 - 3:00
Offering Cost: Free
Offering Location: Solomon's Porch
21.) Host Name: Nanette Sawyer
Nanette Sawyer is a Presbyterian Church (USA) new church developing pastor in Chicago (see her community at www.wickerparkgrace.net).
Offering Title: Mainline Emerging
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.
Offering Days: Tuesday, June 6
Offering Time: 2-5 pm
Offering Cost: 1 unit, $25
Offering Location: Solomon’s Porch
22.) Host Name: Terri Elton, Ph.D. student in Congregational Mission and Leadership and Erin Martinson, mission developer.
Offering Title: Construction of Local Theologies – Utilizing mission theology within emergent faith communities (2 part session – come to one or both)
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.
Offering Days: Tuesday June 6th and Wednesday, June 7th
Offering Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Offering Cost: $50
Offering Location: Tuesday Solomon’s Porch; Wednesday TBA
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Leadership, Life and Theology Institute
June 5 – 10, 2006
Hosted by Solomon’s Porch, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Structure:
The Leadership, Life and Theology Institute is an attempt to find new ways for people to learn from and teach one another.
Our attempt to find a new way to meet and learn is driven by a desire to have new outcomes from our learning.
Emergent being a Friendship requires that we find ways to not only learn from each other but to be connected to one another in meaningful ways. The structure of the Institute is designed to be as personal as possible in an attempt to not only learn information, but to learn from people. This represents a shift away from the content as the primary commodity to life on life being the central benefit. This does not mean that we will not all benefit from what we learn, but it does mean that all that good learning will play a different role in our formation.
To that end the Institute is designed around the presenters skills, desires, and interests.
Offerings:
Each offering will have its own feel and structure. Each Offering will have a Host. Thes Host will at times be the lead presenter, in other situations will be the coordinator or the convener of the offering.
Our hope is that the Host will create their offering so that they can be most effective for person to person interaction. That may well mean that some use a lecture/teaching format while others use discussion. Some may take a field trip while others may do deep “inner work”. Some may require advance preparation while others create the content “on the fly”. There will be a great amount of distinction in the offerings as far as time of the presentation, “take away” value” and intensity.
Updates:
Hosts and Offerings will be regularly updated, so check the Emergent blog for the latest offerings.
Location:
Each Host is responsible for her/his promotional material, establishing the time frame of their meeting, and setting the scope of the conversation. So participants will need to inquire carefully of the details so they can be fully prepared. Solomon’s Porch will provide the primary facility for the offerings but many places around the Twin Cities will be utilized.
Dates:
Offerings will begin Monday, June 5 and continue through Saturday, June 10, 2006 at various times of the day.
Participants will be an important part of the equation. In this system both Hoat and participant are key to creating the desired environment.
Price:
To this end we have established and alacart approach to paying for offerings. Each offering will be priced by the Host at one of three prices, called Units. Each Unit is $25. Offerings will be One, Two or Three units. The number of Units per Offering is at the discretion of the Host. Host are paid half the Unit fee, the other half goes to organizing costs. So Hosts are compensated based on the number of people who register for the their Offering.
To register for an offering:
Register Now
Full Registration opens May 10, 2006.
Participants will register for each offering separately, but may do so under one registration.
Participants will be able to register for additional offerings up to the time of their start, but refunds will not be made for cancellations.
Most offerings will have a limited number of participants so it is in your best interest to register in advance (unless you pre-register by May 1, then all offerings will be open to you).
There are two discounts available: By three units get one free, and the Luxury Registration - $250 to go to any offering you want.
Housing:
A limited number of free housing options are available. Contact [email protected] to inquire.
Transportation:
Minneapolis has reasonable public transportation, but if you are wanting to get around a car is your best option. If you would like transportation please contact [email protected]
Food:
Participants are on their own for most meals, but a mid-day light-lunch will be provided.
Participants will be encouraged to be part of meal groups who will cooperate on meals.
Childcare
We are working on providing childcare. Please email [email protected] if you are interested in utilizing this offering. A few will be charged and will be established as we get more clarity of the need.
Daily Rhythm:
A daily Rhythm will be provided including prayer, worship, morning walks and stretching, afternoon meals, evening fun and relaxation.
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