Summer learning experience …
I just learned that friends Bruce Epperly and Jonny Baker will be in Lancaster PA this summer (June 22-26) for the summer academy at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Info here.
0 Comments1 Minute
Hear Rene Padilla …
Just got this from Gabriel Salguero ...
I know many of you have said, “I would love to attend a Rene Padilla lecture .” Well, here’s your chance. Rene Padilla will be at Princeton Theological Seminary hosted by the Hispanic Leadership Program August 4, 2009. He will be lecturing on Integral Mission and Latin American Theological Reflection in the Age of Obama. If you’re interested register on-line. More information is attached. Feel free to forward to your networks.
Click here to register:
http://www.peopleware.net/index.cfm?siteCode=1767&eventDisp=PR09HLP202&subeventdisp=PRIN
0 Comments1 Minute
Thursday and Friday …
I'll be in Vancouver, BC, at the NAIITS gathering (North American Institute for IndigenousTheological Studies). I probably shouldn't talk about "favorite" groups to be with ... but this group is one of the very best groups I've been privileged to be connected with. I learn a lot and am enriched by these relationships.
... As I will be this weekend, when I leave for South Africa to be with another of my favorite groups ... amahoro-africa.org. I can't believe how blessed I am to be able to know and learn with such tremendous friends. (If I'm blog-silent for the next week or so ... you'll know why.)
0 Comments1 Minute
Wednesday in DC …
Today I was in DC, meeting with my friends (and fellow member of crcc.org) Tom Austin and Maman Christine ... we were talking about Christine's homeland, Congo, where 5.5 million people have died due to violence since 1996. It's like 6 Rwandan genocides ... yet the international community (political and religious) seems to remain asleep. We talked about the good work of the Enough campaign ... and conspired about ways we can mobilize attention, energy, and of course prayer for this beautiful, fragile, wounded and often-forgotten country.
If you have a cell phone, you are connected to the Congo and the injustice there ... you can learn about your connection here.
Stay tuned, because I'll have more to say on this subject in coming months. In the meantime, check out this video produced by my friends at Discover the Journey.
0 Comments1 Minutes
Tuesday on the trail …
Tuesday I spent the day walking along the Potomac River with some local friends.
We enjoyed God's living art gallery (which included a scarlet tanager and Baltimore oriole) and talked about life, God, gospel, theology, church, and mission. Our group included Joel Kurz, a gifted church planter in Baltimore. Their community, the Garden, just had a "trail of tears" service. Here's how Joel described it:
The Garden Worship Gathering took on a new approach this past Sunday as we traveled to five of the most recent murder sites in our area, a journey which we called Trail of Tears. At each site we read the liturgy and dropped a rose while we sang together "Amazing Grace."
As seen in the liturgy we finished our time of prayer at each site with the words, "And may your Kingdom come to Baltimore as it is in Heaven," - a cry for God's peace and way of life to be opened up among us now. This next Sunday we will be focusing on what it now means to be the answer to our own prayer. We realize that as we pray for God's Kingdom to come, God has chosen us to be the agents of the Kingdom, agents of peace and reconciliation in the world around us, making Baltimore a better place for everyone.
With Joel's permission, I included the liturgy below the jump. This strikes me as a very wise and powerful action people of faith can adapt and employ in many settings.
0 Comments8 Minutes