Mark Scandrette

I’ll be in Seattle next week connecting with various groups. If you live in the area maybe we can connect aroun one of these happenings:

FEBRUARY 28-March 1 THE NEW CONSPIRATORS CONFERENCE with mustard seed associates. Lisa and I will be doing a workshop on Emerging/Missional parenting and I will be doing a workshop called “Entering the Jesus Dojo” on activist spiritual formation.

MARCH 1: The Purple Door in Seattle with The Cobalt Season.

MARCH 2: Wits End Church 10 a.m.Seattle.

MARCH 2: ZOE LIVABLE COMMUNITY with The Colbalt Season, Tacoma. 6 P.M.

Here’s a workshop I am facilitating this spring as part of ReIMAGINE’s Jesus Dojo:

EXPERIMENTS IN TRUTH: a laboratory for personal transformation.

The master invites us to rethink or reimagine our whole lives in light of
the Maker’s dream of greater wholeness for our world.  This workshop
explores the physicality of spiritual formation. If I change what I do in my
mind and body, how will it effect my capacity to flow with the Creator’s
energy & love? (what eat? how I spend my time?  The media I consume? How I
use my money? Who I spend my time with?) This practical workshops seek to
deal with the disparity we often feel between how we want to live and how we
actually live.  Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness fasting and facing his
greatest shadows and temptations. Participants in this workshop will engage
in practices aimed at confronting our own shadows and obstacles to the
spiritual life through “experiments in truth.”

Wednesdays March 19th through April 23rd. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Location in central
SF TBA.
Cost: $25  Register on-line www.reimagine.org

If you are new to the bay area or curious about Emerging Faith and the Emerging church, this is a great opportunity to connect with co-conspirators.

Sugarlump Theology Salon.

When? February 24th, 7-9pm

Where? Sugarlump Coffee Lounge
2862 24th Street @ Bryant
San Francisco CA 94110
http://www.sugarlumpcoffeelounge.com/

Upcomimg Topic:

Where does the emergent church stand in relation to this mystical relational faith? Does its focus on contemplative exercises combined with its hostility towards evangelism lead to self-focus? Does its formulation of the Gospel in terms of “following Jesus” and his kingdom lead to an impersonal “way” rather than a relationship?

Familiarity with readings from “mystic” texts such as: St Dionysius, Meister Eckhart, St John of the Cross, & The Cloud of Unknowing, New Seed of Contemplation, etc.   will be helpful in your participation.

Also check out this post by Scott McNight: http://www.jesuscreed.org/?p=1001

In order to facilitate the best conversation possible it is helpful for us know how many people are coming. PLEASE R.S.V.P. to this event, by contacting Adam Klein, adam AT reimagine.org

The Sugarlump Theology  Salon is a gathering of 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 Inklings” (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”.

This summer I will be on the road with my friends Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones. We will be traveling in an RV to towns and cities across America (and Canada) conducting GOSPEL REVIVAL meetings and connecting with friends who are similarly passionate about pursuing the Way of Jesus in the exciting times we are living in. You can help host us and become part of the show in your city!

Today in the mail I received my copy of my friend Tony Jones new book, The New Christians. I’ve take a quick browse and must say that it is a book that Tony should be very proud of: well written, hopeful and proactive. I also believe that for those who have been critics or just curious about the emerging church phenomenon, Tony does a great job of explaining some history and concepts that are defining what could be described as a move of the Spirit in our generation. His treatment of the topic is broad, even-handed, generous and personal– and Tony does a kind job of responding with humility to critics. Read this book!