80 Persons have Registered for Gathering 2013!
We are expecting closer to 150 persons, so if you haven't registered yet please do so Register Here Financial assistance is available to persons with need. Contact Brent Laytham for details and a special registration code. Plenary Speakers - Mike Budde and Stan Hauerwas discuss the abolition of war.
- George Kalantzis and Steve Fowl present on peace in our countries.
- Randy Cooper and Jana Bennett present on peace in our churches.
- Alan Howe and Kelly Johnson present on peace in our neighborhoods.
Workshops - Matt Morin and Stanley Hauerwas will engage "The Abolition of War"
- Erin Dufault-Hunter, "Sharing Communion but not Convictions: Practicing Peace over the Same-Sex Marriage Divide in Local Churches."
- David Jantzen and local witnesses, "Extending the Mission of the Church through Intentional Christian Communities"
- Ted Lewis, "Restorative Justice: Ecclesial Roots, Ecclesial Applications."
- Peter Mommsen, The Bruderhoff's response to WWII and the way those practices continue to shape their commuties today.
If you are travelling to and from the Gathering using the L-train, Groupon is offering a 3-Cay CTA Pass for $9. It now costs $5 to leave Ohare on the L (Midway is still $2.25, apparently), so your minimum cost to and from there is $7.25. If you ride even once more, this pass will save you money. July 11-13, campus of DePaul University (Lincoln Park), Chicago. |
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NEW ENDORSERS:
Here are the names of those who have endorsed The Ekklesia Project in the last month. If you don't know what endorsing signifies, read the Declaration and Invitation of EP, or its summary as a fourfold claim.
The new Endorsers are:
Hillary Adams (Englewood Christian Church, Indianapolis) - Funny story: Hillary has understood herself to be an EP endorser for years, but just realized this month that she never actually told the rest of us.
Billy Daniel (Hagerstown, MD)
Margaret Kim Peterson (PA)
Kevin Sanders (MI)
Barbara Hale (MD)
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 New on BLOGOS Declare How Much God Has Done For You by Janice Love It is, in the Northern Hemisphere, the season of summer - of fun on the water in many forms. We, ourselves, live by three lakes and spend much time in them, on them and by them at this time of year. Our impending visit to my sister's on the Saskatchewan prairies holds the promise of a visit to their cabin with boating, tubing, skiing and skipping stones on the to do list - unlike our last visit when our son learned to sandbag for the first time as his uncle and cousins sought to keep the lake water from drowning the cabin.
This last image of flooding and water out of control, unfortunately a prominent one on the weather news of late from so many different places, is, as N.T. Wright points out in the first chapter of his Evil and the Justice of God, a biblical symbol of the chaos evil creates - so much so that in the new creation of Revelation there is no sea (Rev. 21:1). Just before our text from Luke for this Sunday, Jesus and his disciples find themselves caught up in the chaos of a storm on the lake of Galilee. Jesus, apparently a sound sleeper, is not aware of the storm until his disciples awaken him in their full-fledged panic. Easily rebuking the wind and waves, a calm ensues while Jesus rebukes the lack of faith in his disciples and they wonder just who this guy is.
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