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Today I’ll be liveblogging The Future of Global Theology event at Fuller Theological Seminary. It coincides with the public launch of the Dictionary of Global Theology edited by William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, with Simon Chan and Juan Martínez serving as associate editors. It will begin at 11:00am PST and conclude at 2:30pm.

Please join us — feel free to ask questions as the proceedings go along…

UPDATE:

My deepest apologies — the room where the event was held had NO internet — wired or wireless. Wow. I had absolutely no idea of this beforehand. Again, I’m sorry and frankly embarrassed about how this transpired. If I can get a hold of some transcripts — my notes were sketchy because I was looking endlessly for web access – I’ll post them.

I’ll be at #churchtechcamp today at Fuller Seminary — it is "a localized unconference for people of faith to gather and share their own best practices and "in the field" insights."  Looking forward to meeting all the people and hearing what they have to say…

This last spring, I had the opportunity to speak at the Association of Theological Schools “SPAN” conference for administrators. They asked me to speak about the changes in the American/British church scene that I wrote about in the book “Emerging Churches”, a book I co-wrote with Fuller professor Eddie Gibbs.

My talk addressed the need for seminaries to be transformed if they are to continue to serve the needs of churches in the Twenty-first century. As I spoke, I realized that Fuller has already made many of these changes and is well suited to partner with emerging churches in the future.

For me, the conversation on the emerging church and Fuller started in a little conference room located in Glasser Hall, one of the older converted homes on the Fuller campus, back in thee mid-nineties. About five to ten of us would have a “brown-bag” lunch weekly. Some were Masters students, such as myself, and Barry Taylor, some were doctoral students, and some were professors: Wilbert Shenk and Eddie Gibbs. The conversation always strayed to conversations about how the church must adapt in the coming few years.

Wilbert Shenk, the instigator of the meeting, suggested the subversive idea, brought over from England and Lesslie Newbigin in the early nineties, that the West functioned as a mission field: that the church ought to see its surrounding cultures in the same way as good missionaries do. Eddie Gibbs brought his deep understanding of everyday church life to the meetings; Eddie had recently penned “In Name Only”, the classic text on nominality, and was working on a subsequent book, “Churchnext”.

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Karen Ward and I will be speaking at a series of blah… days in England July 14-18. Jonny Baker and  friends organized it — really looking forward to connecting with friends that I have not seen face to face in a few years…