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One of the advantages of being connected with Mars Hill Graduate School is the various events and opportunities that come along. One such opportunity is Brian McLaren’s Deep Shift tour in connection with his latest book, Everything Must Change.  Brian and friends will be stopping in a number of cities about the U.S. and will be in Seattle on April 11-12, 2008.

The organizers of this conferences are clearly tuned in to the emerging conversation as evidenced by their fantastic line-up of speakers and breakout leaders, including:

• Brian McLaren
• Mark Yaconelli
• Shane Claiborne
• Kara Powell
• Dan Kimball
• Scot McKnight

You can find out more by going to the main conference website or click here to register.

Peace, dwight

I’m knee deep in the process of crafting my courses that I’ll be guiding students through at MHGS this fall. They are a thrilling and important list of courses and I’m looking for suggestions that you might have for engagements, films, music, poetry, readings, even themes that I should consider to make that courses as solid, transformational and missional as possible.

The two courses I would most covet your input on are: Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task: the Art of Reading Beyond the Page & Postmodernity.I’ll post the course descriptions:

Feel free to post here or email thoughts to me.

peace, dwight

Mars Hill Graduate School will be hosting a conversation with Doug Pagitt, Saturday evening June 2.

If you’re in the Seattle area I hope you’ll join in, you are more than welcome. Register here.

Peace, dwight