Sounds like a good excuse for a trip to Minnesota….
Hi All -
I hope this email finds you all well. There are many exciting things happening within the emerging church world these days, including more and more women’s voices being heard. I am blessed to be a part of this community where we encourage and seek to learn from each other, and as women stand up and add our voice to this emerging conversation. So for this summer’s newsletter, I wanted to highlight a few ways we can connect with each other and listen to women’s voices.
1. First, I am excited to invite everyone to the upcoming event Christianity 21.
Christianity 21: Faith in the 21st Century
21 Voices
21 Ideas
21 Minutes Each
We live in a time of epochal change.
Many find this change exciting; for others, it’s a challenge. Call it globalization, pluralization, or postmodernism, this change affects our economy, politics, government, and education—all of society. And, of course, our faith and our churches are not immune to change.
So we have gathered 21 of the most important voices for the future of Christianity—21 voices for the 21st century—to speak into our future as people of faith in this age. They represent a diverse array of backgrounds, interests, and passions, and they will provide a wide range of innovative and challenging presentations.
Christianity21 is less a conference and more a happening, an event—a gathering of voices and ideas that will shape the future of our faith. And to the 21 voices, we want you to add your voice, whether you’re a seeker or skeptic, leader or layperson, disciple or doubter.
We hope you consider joining your voice to ours at Christianity21.
Friday, October 9 – Sunday, October 11 2009
Colonial Church of Edina
6200 Colonial Way
Minneapolis, MN 55436
This is an event where women’s voices are prominently featured – including a number of women from the Emerging Women community. Speakers include Phyllis Tickle, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Diana Butler Bass, Lauren Winner, Sally Morganthaler, Nanette Saywer and more. This event will be a time to dig deep into exploring the future of Christianity and of casting a hope-filled vision to seek together. I am excited to be a part of this event and to learn from these women. I encourage everyone here to try and attend – adding your voice to the conversation.
For more information and to register visit www.christianity21.com
2. I also encourage you to help us connect to what emerging women are doing everywhere. If you stumble upon a good article, blog post, book, poem, story or sermon that you think other emerging women should know about, please send us the link or information so we can share it on the website (emergingwomen.us). And especially if you have published a book or article, have a new album out, or an upcoming art show – we want to know about it! To learn from each other and to encourage each other, we need to know what is happening in each other’s lives. So please, help us all to connect by sending in these suggestions to emergingwomen@gmail.com
3. In addition, the Emerging Women blog is always eager to post your submissions. We are a member driven blog, so that means the content is created by you. So if you have an article, reflection piece, review, question, current event story, poem, story, or theological insight that addresses emerging topics or issues women face please submit it to our blog (to emergingwomen@gmail.com). You don’t have to be a published author, or even have your own blog, we just want your voice to be heard! We ask that submissions try to stay under 800 words and that you submit a short (1-2 sentence) bio we can include with your post. This past spring we had a great series on perspectives on sex as we heard from a wide spectrum of emerging women. There will be similar series in the future, but submissions on any topic are welcome to be submitted whenever.
I hope to connect with many of you in conversation on the blog and hopefully see some of you in person at Christianity 21. Thank you for being a part of this community and for helping encourage women to use their voice.
Blessings
p.s. If you haven’t updated your links with the new blog address yet, please change them to www.emergingwomen.com
