Mark Scandrette

I’m helping to organize this little experiment:

A quick update on Emmaus Road, a Bay Area Emergent Cohort.

In 2006 we gathered in a variety of venues to promote generative friendships among missional Christians. We met in locations around the bay area for meals and discussions on a variety of topics– and in the later part of the year a group of us committed to meeting once a month over six months for a more intensive Peer Learning Community. In 2007 we’ve decided to try a
topical approach.

The conversation continues in 2007 with a series of theological discussions we are calling: The Sugarlump Theology Salon

WHEN? Feb. 15 at 7-9 P.M.

WHERE?

Sugarlump Coffee Lounge
2862 24th Street @ Bryant
San Francisco CA 94110
(415)826-lump

TOPIC: How Mass Collaboration changes everything. Contextualizing ecclesiology in an era of a participatory world view and a culture of mass collaboration.

DISCUSSION FACILITATOR: Dr. Linda Bergquist, adjunct professor at Golden Gate Theological Seminary, missional strategist and lover of theology.

You can prepare for this discussion by downloading a sample chapter of the book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and also I Corinthians 12.

Wikipedia defines salon as “a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings”.

The Sugarlump Theology Salon is a gathering of Christian theologians and thinkers in the San Francisco Bay Area who meet in order to share and discuss their ideas and get peer feedback from one another. In the tradition of “The Inkling” (the literary group of C.S. Lewis’s and J.R.R. Tolkien that met in a pub for readings and criticism of their own work) we meet in a
coffee house (the San Francisco equivalent of a pub) called the “Sugarlump Coffee Lounge”.

We will determine the topic for the next monthly Salon following our initial discussion.

Please R.S.V.P. two days prior to this event by contacting Derek Flood:
derek.flood@yahoo.com

Looking forward to connecting!