SPST Emergent, Kansas City

SPST Emergent

1. Every Thing Must Change Conference...
   

   Greetings All...

   Brian McLaren will be in town this weekend for his Everything Must Change Conference. This tour is presented by Deep Shift, and Saint Paul School of Theology is a local sponsor. The event is this Friday and Saturday (April 25th-26th). Registration info can be found here. Registration for Seminary students is $35. More info on the conference here.

   As well, Tim Keel will be leading a pre conference as will Mike King. Information on Tim's Intuitive Leadership conference here. Information on Mike's Prelude conference here.

   If you plan to be around people in the next 5-10 years then you need to take in these conferences!!!

2. Upcoming lunch gatherings ~2007/2008
   

   Greetings all...

   We invite you to join us for the 2007/2008 lunch gatherings... We have booked Holter room 7 for the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. If you are interested in talking about mission and ministry in the postmodern context we hope you will drop by. We plan to gather for lunch from 12:00 to 1:00 or 1:30...Typically there is no set agenda, just conversation... In the past we have invited professors and local pastors as guest conversation leaders, so that may happen again from time to time. Hopefully we can get Tim to come by and talk about his new book and Mike to come by and talk about some of the exciting stuff that is going on at Youthfront...

   Peace...

   Mark and Jeremy....

3. Resources from Nov. 7th Gathering
   

   At the November 7th lunch gathering we spent quite a bit of our time reviewing a series of dichotomous characteristics that can be seen between modernity and postmodernity. The majority of these comparisons come from Tim Keel, Tony Jones, Dan Kimball, and Brian McLaren. The graphic representations are pulled from a variety of resources and personal experiences, and try to capture the holistic nature of the exploration of 'kingdom life' (Doug Pagitt) in the postmodern context...

   Here is the powerpoint that we looked at (extremely under-developed, but a fair starting point...)

   Download spst_e_101.ppt

4. Lunch Gathering
   

   Greetings Friends...

   I have reserved room three in the Holter Center, on Tuesday November 7th, for an impromptu lunch conversation...We have no formal agenda other than spending a short amount of time discussing the recent UMerging Colloquy" held a month ago at Church of the Resurrection. I you have any thoughts, questions, or observations regarding the engagement of mission and ministry in the context of the emerging postmodern culture we hope you will join us.

   A few Resources....

   Emergent Village

   Umerging Colloquy

   EmergingUMC Blog

   A recent Article Published by Dr. Knight... Click Here

   Feel Free to post a comment or question....

5. SPST Emergent ~ Film Screening
   

   SPST Emergent will be hosting the viewing of a documentary that explores the "interesting," and disturbibg life-work of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas. This documentary was produced by University of Kansas film student Ryan Jones, and will be screened on Wednesday October 4th at 7pm, in Hendrix Hall.   The documentary, "Fall From Grace" is 71 minutes long and will be followed by an hour, or so, of conversation and dialogue with the film-maker. This version of the documenatry contains updated and additional content that was not in the first version that we screened last semester.If you have any question please email me. Click here to got to Ryan's 'official' website....