Category: Conferences

Resurgence of Racism: Baptist Conference on Unity Planned

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Former President Jimmy Carter and founder of the New Baptist Covenant has long accepted the call to the ministry of reconciliation and sees the spike in race- related incidents as a call to serve this generation.  Seeing race as apart of the attacks on the Obama presidency and the rise of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate […]

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Space for Grace

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Space for Grace.  It is a national gathering hosted by the American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS).  There has been national attention placed on the shootings in sacred places of worship and the increased tensions between communities after accusations of police misconduct and brutality.  While the focus must remain there, let’s make space for grace, for […]

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The Double-Minded Church: Spiritual Formation and the Impractical Theology of Race

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This week, I was in Decatur, Georgia and presented at ChurchWorks, a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference for ministers of spiritual formation and education.  I, along with several others, spoke about the theological rumblings and ruminations of our shared ministry with Christ.  I will present part one of the message here: “Jesus loves the little children/ […]

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Facing Race

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Have you heard of “Facing Race”?  It’s a national conference that seeks racial justice and though I don’t believe that there is any justice in race and they are not talking about the race-less life (I suppose that I am ahead of my time here.) at least they are wrestling with their realities with the […]

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The Mosaix Global Network’s Upcoming Conference

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Founded in 2004 by Mark DeYmaz & George Yancey, MOSAIX is a relational network of local church pastors/planters, researchers, educators and ministry leaders, that exists to catalyze the growing movement toward multi-ethnic economically diverse churches.  Their second annual conference will be held on November 5-6, 2013 in Long Beach, California.

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