July 5-7 Rob Bell is having a little shindig with his good friends, Shane Hipps and Pete Rollins, in Grand Rapids. He calls it “Poets, Prophets and Preachers.” According to the website its: “A seminar for teachers, preachers, speakers, leaders and pastors serious about reclaiming the art of the sermon.”

Thanks to my lovely fiance, I got a live blogging gig with Zondervan who is helping put on the event.

For those who might like to go but can’t, check back here on Sunday 7p-9p, Monday 9a-9p and Tuesday 9a-6p for an actual live blogging of the entire event, complete with my commentary and thoughts!

-jeremy

PS-In the interest of full disclosure, my fiance works for Zondervan and because I am live blogging it I am going for free…but both won’t influence how I ‘cover’ the event

A few weeks ago I wrote about the launch of ZOOMAE, a hyperlocal social-spiritual experiment that exists to empower dreamers to stimulate renewal in Grand Rapids through publishing, networking, and missional projects. The first project I wrote about was our hyperlocal publishing project. This week my friend and partner in crime, Josh Schmidt, is sharing about our hyperlocal networking project:

Walk into any bookstore and you can find a host of books written by people who claim to have some answers. Whether its social justice issues, how to build wealth, spiritual enlightenment, etc, the experts are out there. And typically that’s where they remain: out there! Not here. They do not know our town, our people, our unique gifts and our unique struggles for the place we call home. A significant part of ZOOMAE’s vision is that we are for our town, by our town.

You and I have sat around the local table and been a part of the discussions.

We have heard the creative ideas coming from our own community.

The experts on Grand Rapids are not out there, the experts are right here and ZOOAME’s vision is to empower the folks of Grand Rapids to take ownership of their city; to be the creatives, the dreamers, and the experts in order to bring renewal to our hometown.

This is why ZOOMAE’s role as a networking community is extremely valuable. Our website, along with other networking events is designed to link the Grand Rapids community together so that as ideas emerge they can be shared and rallied behind. The movement will grow when the experts, like you, can connect with the other experts, dreamers, and creative voices, share and build on others ideas, contribute your own, build relationships and generate a stronger voice.

How do you connect to the ZOOMAE network? First, join us on Facebook.

Second, share your input, ideas, and experiences with the rest of us by creating a profile on a soon-to-be social network site designed specifically for Grand Rapids.

Third, be a part of local networking events. Starting in September 2009 we will hosting regular mixers for local organizations and people who are committed to bettering Grand Rapids. Show up, have some drinks and food, bring plenty of business cards and get to know the people in our community who are making change.

Welcome to the ZOOMAE network community!

Panel members include:
- Dr. John Corvino, Wayne State University professor, author and lecturer;
- Dr. Milt Ford, director of Grand Valleys LGBT Resource Center;
- Judith Snow, Grand Rapids area forensic therapist and author;
- Doug Van Doren, pastor of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ;
- Josh Sleutel, GVSU student, previous reparative therapy patient.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE PANEL LEAVE THEM IN THE COMMENT SECTION.

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9:25- ALL DONE….that was fun and informative.

9:24-Question: The day I decided to come out was the day dad retired as Lutheran minister. Why do some pastors pick and choose some verses and not others to fit own agenda.

Van Doren–All selective literalists. One does come at the Scripture wiht particular perspectives. One needs to be honest with ones issues and the issues of the Scirpture. Certain parts seem seized on that issue and its largely political in and out of the church. It works. Need to be clear that the people are the ones that get the attention and area anti-gay are not the majority of the church opinion.

9:20-Josh, what brough you all the way around to face the issue, that reparative isnt working and to accept the real you?

Josh–Nothing specifically that convinced it was OK to be gay. A long journey of exploration and questioning what Christianity has said about being gay and realizing orientation not changing him at all.

9:17-Talk about discrimination you felt on campus. How has the religious/Christian organizations have affected you?

Josh–Personally only experienced inclusion. Impressed with GVSU and how they have created space for young gay people.

Ford–No discrimination of group or individual on campus. Was excited about a dialogue among the Christian community and LGBT community for dialogue and udnerstanding, which has slowed. Would encourage that dialogue

9:13-How do we break down gay stereotypes in the Christian community?

Van Doren–Tell the truth, engage different groups, honor people where they are, tell your story. But in the Christian community we should not use the Bible as a club nor a particular narrow perspective on a few verses. Doesnt back down from strong Christian faith but is still open. No place in Scripture where love is condemned. “Love wins” as he says

Van Doren–”Evangelistic Imperialism” other faith groups need to accept and appreciate diversity on all levels. I wish we were not so narrow that we have a lot to learn from other faiths.

9:00–What is the psychological state of those who are doing these programs?

Snow is saying that there is a high degree of narcissism among those who want to convert and repair. It is not healthy, poor boundaries.

Ford–Where is the mindset coming from…the best intensions of a respect for who people are or what we want people to be?

Van Doren–”So which is it that you are so unsure about, your sexuality or your faith?” When we are secure in those places in our lives we dont need to whole world to confirm our beliefs and identities. (WOW!)

Josh–Had a not so bad in reparative therapy are not loonies but rational peoples and respect the healthy of their clients. But they are convinced that they are right. Doesn’t think the man who was his therapist had malicious intent….

The LWO guy (Dr. Brown) wondered why no one from the other side was allowed to be on the table. Good point, except he continued to hold the floor and bager the point. The guy needs to sit down…to be honest not representing Christ well.

8:51-How should we the community respond to LWO in GRap

Josh—We do need to listen and encourage a dialogue. Lets listen to one another. Perhaps a Christian person does care about someone because of their belief system…lets listen and not demonize.

Van Doren—Clearly we can say THAT PERSPECTIVE IS NOT NORMATIVE. Saying that they do not speak for all of us or all the Church…they are in a small minority. Need to state our point and be kind, but speak truth and be truth.

*THis is a curious comment…while the praxis of FOF and Exodus may be a minority, the doxy certainly isnt historically. I’m curious how he can say the theological perspective of the “religious right” is in the minority, when historically the perspective of such perspectives of Van Doren has never been a majority view.

8:39-For Judith–How can you have an agenda and be a therapist that is agenda driven? (basically saying how does the ex-gay min operate under they guise of psychotherapy…)

Judith—what matters is helping the client to find their own truth. unforuntately there isn’t a body governing the practice and therapy.

8:36-A guy who is a speaker at LOVE WON OUT–critically important to listen to one another…and appeal to tolerance and inclusion. The presenter has presented an EXTREME caricature of the Christian ex-gay community in the same way Christians have also caricatured the gay movement. (true)

Why are you not tolerant for those who’ve changed and said changed. Why not accepted by those who say people’ have changed? (good question)

Besen—says not caricatured. Asking they be honest and

Josh—there is a divisive language for people who want to be gay and christian, so we need to not bicker back and forth and paint the caricature. We need to have a dialogue where people are mutually listenting without painting a false pciture of one another. (also GOOD!)

8:31-My friend JOSH!!!! Found self not working out how he came to be gay or experience with rep. therapy, but focused on a fear that the panel would invite people to attack him. Experience is valuable but that this culture we are in does not allow gay people, esp. in the church, to be fully who they are, based on this culture of oppression. Has this internalized fear based on his experience in the church and working out being gay and a Christian.

Now Q&A time.

8:29-Ford—He wants to affirm and help people be who they are. Now quoting the Hymn, JUST AS I AM…He has learned as who he really is, just as he really is. he wants to help people live as they are authentically.

Corvino—Doesnt have a problem with LOVE ONE OUT people discussing the truth of their lives, and has a problem with ex-gay ministries from distorting the stories of HIS life by painting a false pict of the gay lifestyle that needs to be gotten out of. Prob is the with distorition of science and the lies. The event is about people telling their stories. Important to tell our stories so we can get a clear and accurate pict of our lives.

Snow—Wants to clear up the fact homosexuality is not a disease or broken piece. Mental health professional that is disturbed by the science and beliefs that are spun as truth…not truth. Has seen the harm done in sessions by LGBT people who have had their spiritual “resources polluted.”

8:25-Van Doren, a pastor—Tired of the violence the programs do. Tired of crying with the people who’ve been abused by the programs and churches. Tired of trying to heal some of the damage and spiritual violence done. Tired of the bad name they give to CHRISTIANS. The devil is the prince of lies…and he abounds in these ex-gays. The Church has been violent toward these folks. The message put out by churches that do these things is that they need to be repaired, that they are broken. With the high occurence of suicide its more than spiritual violence. TO parents it says they can think of them as people who need to be cured, rather than loved and accepted, esp. by parents. Amused by all the failed attempts in the programs. If they cant change them it doesnt seem that they cant practice…not fair to tell a teenage they cant have sex the rest of their life.

*HMMMM….I wonder how this man deals with the TEXT?! And I say that because there are clear Textual issues that compel these groups, as crazy and ignorant as the programs occur, to do their thing.

8:20-Now the panelists are coming to the table. See above. I wonder if they’ll address the biblical, theological, and textual issue surrounding the tension…

8:19-Ex-gay mins have sincere people…they play the part and want to believe that they’ve changed, that change is possible. But reality comes crashing down and they have to take the mask off and live authentically. Thats Freedom, he says. He’s now done with his presentation.

8:17-Showing some pretty disturbing recent quotations from Christian ex-gay ministry literature that is absolutely NOT rooted in the Text. Like encouraging parents who have artistic sons to wonder if they are homosexual. One thing that hit me is (from THESE quotations) is how non-Textual the perspectives and ‘reparative techniques’ are.

*He just addressed the used of exorcism…I’d say this is a pretty extreme example. Lots of layers going on here in this presentation. I’d say its mostly on the extreme…from both sides.

8:09-Now he’s breaking out nonsensical, fringe anti-gay quotations that ABSOLUTELY do not represent the mainstream Christian community that sees homosexuality differently than this community. COME ON MAN! Can you not make your point without resorting to scare tactics and fringe quotations?!

*To be honest I wonder how much of the content is a distortion of what really happens at gay reparative programs…I know the Church is ignorant and treats the issue poorly, but some of these accusations seem so over the top!

8:02-Explaining that FOF and religious right unlovingly say there is something wrong with people, they are broke, need to change, not happy gay, etc…So Christianity reinforces the negative perceptions of themselves. Say they are doing what they do because they love people and the world. When they talk to the flock their rhetoric is unloving: call homosexuality sexual bondage, brokenness, a distortion of the enemy, sexually brokenness, “God wants to heal sexual brokenness,” “fallen human beings that express sexual passion in broken ways,” “sexually broken” “God wants to set people free from any bondage”

*He had just said he respects people’s religious beliefs (in the context of them misusing and distoring scientific research…so just express beleifs rather than using bad science to prop up religious convictions), but then created a montage of video clips expressing that religious belief and called it “propaganda”

7:57-http://respectmyresearch.com/ explains how Focus on the Family misuses and distorts scientific research to make their case against homosexuality…or more importantly reparative therapy. He is saying they are distorting and misusing scientific research to back their religious convictions.

*Yeah this needs to stop!

7:54-At the heart of ex-gay min is bad science: had a bad rel with the opposite sex, have predispositions toward opposite sex characteristics…so they need to just hang with the guys or gals and PRAY. So abuse and bad homes is the claimes result of homosexuality.

*I would say this is a major problem with Christian/Church interaction with the issue that claims gay people have been sexually abused or alienated. This is ignorant, reckless pseudo-science that really needs to change…my experience is these people who spout this science are completely unconnected from people who deal with a gay identity.

7:48-Now saying co-founders Michael Busy and Gary Cooper of Exodus returned to gay lives, left their wives and had a committment ceremony. Rattling off more leaders who’ve failed after they said they have changed. Now wondering what is meant by change: questions whether people can suppress and change ‘who they are’ APA, AMA, etc say attempts to change is unhealthy and leads to an unhealthy life.

Alan Chambers says Exodus cannot change people…cannot liberate people. On Montel Chambers backtracking on the word CHANGE…Berens says that ex-gay mins say God changes people…and when they dont change people blame God, and internalize the fact they didnt change, become liberated…there must be some reason God is angry with them.

7:39-Now watching very emotional vids of ex-gay people who went through reparative therapy and the affects of the church on gay people…and the damage done to trying to change people to be who they aren’t. A person on vid who says ex-gay efforts are harmful and ineffective….All this seems a bit disingenuous to me, to be frank.

It is also harmful to women and families, because the ex-gay ministries encourage them to marry to heal and live a straight life…and they cheated, walked out, etc…one woman felt used.

*While I understand how dangerous it is for such mins to encourage men to marry to heal without actually dealing with themselves…I find it hard to beleive the mins are entirely at fault for the behavior of individual men; and we dont have all the nuance of the issues.

7:33-5 Reasons why we should care: 1) Its a major industry bent on changing people; 2) very powerful in government and trying to pass laws that persecute and coerce lives; 3) organizations are trying to get literature in as many schools as possible; 4) worldwide campaign: globalization of gay-bashing that stoke persecution of gay people; 5) they harm real people.

*What i find interesting is the exact same reasons largely apply to the pro-gay agenday groups, too.

7:29-Telling the story of how ex-gay man and ex-gay proponent John Paulk was hitting on a friend of his. He was outed for the fraud he was. Using the story to claim reparative therapy doesnt work. Another man Michael Johnston who had claimed miraculous healing by God through prayer…who later gave a man AIDS under the pseudonym Shawn.

*Talking about “our opponents” and the “right-wing extremists.” Interesting language.

7:23–What he thinks is scary is that Cohen is one of the main repairers. He is still the go to guy for reparative treatment. Thats what passes as mainstream reparative therapy. 1998 things changed. Family Research Council and other anti-gay orgs launched a major ad campaign to help people realize people could change. The fire and brimestone of Fallwell wasnt working anymore. People were coming out as gay and religious right had to change: instead of appear condemning needed to appear as loving by trying to change them. *so apparently the rel. right has a massive political/powerful agenda….

7:18-Now a John Stewart clip on Wayne Beson. A medical diagnostic spoof on suffering from GAY. TED HAGGARD just showed. A basic spoof on the ex-gay movement. Pretty nonsensical really.

Dr. Richard Cohen talking about “this and this fits…this and this doesnt fit.” use your imagination

7:14-Wayne Besen introed and presenting first. ANYTHING BUT STRAIGHT is his book, TRUTH WINS OUT is his organization. Here because he remembers in HS crying about being gay and asking God to take his homosexuality away…he wanted more than anything not to be gay, and be accepted by world. Late HS sat parents down and came out. Mom said, NO, NO THAT CANT BE. His process of processing through with his parents was interupted by a tape GAY AND NOT HAPPY tape they found in the mall and gave to him, produced by an EXGAY MIN. Said parents taken advantage of by the min…and feels bad for the LWO people because the parents are looking in the wrong place for the answers. LWO is not the answer, its the problem.

7:06-Talking about LWO holding program on Sat and NOW’s protest of the program, accompanied by the mayor.

7:05-Starting…About 300-320 people. Multi-aged, but mostly older.

6:49-IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE PANEL LEAVE THEM IN THE COMMENT SECTION.

6:40-TEST 2…Starting in 20 min

5:52-TEST

Tonight I am attending an event with some friends hosted by a local university in reaction to the impending Love Won Out conference that will arrive in Grand Rapids on Saturday. LWO is an event put on by Focus on the Family that “exhorts and equips the church to respond in a Christ-like way to the issue of homosexuality. And to those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions, we offer the Gospel hope that these desires can be overcome.”

A number of local LGBT organizations have joined together to create an alternative event to counter the message of LWO. Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, will begin the discussion with a presentation about the validity of ex-gay reparative ministries or therapies.

I’ve written here before on this issue. I’m also on the board of directors for a local LGBT/Church bridging organization, Bridge Evidence Group. I’m very curious about this event for 2 reasons: 1) the church has done a piss-poor job at creating space for those who are wading through personal issues of homosexuality, to the point of causing serious harm to entire groups of people; and 2) by all appearances, this event drips with an agenda to brush away the biblical, theological, and textual issues of the Holy Scriptures that surround this issue, going so far as to claim any Christian response to homosexuality as “spiritual violence.” In fact, Truth Wins Out is a national nonprofit organization “dedicated to defending the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community against anti-gay campaigns.”

So is Love Won Out considered an “anti-gay campaign”? Is a discussion on the biblical, theological, and textual issues of homosexuality considered a campaign against gays?

I plan on live blogging this whole event, if possible with the content of the presentations and my own commentary. Check back from 7-9pm.

I received this email from one of my favorite Indy magazines, Adbusters. Check it out:

Nihilism has long been an abstraction: the dark muse of poetry, philosophy and art. But now we are confronted with the moment when this experiment of ours on Planet Earth meets its spectacular and terrifying end, when civilization reaches its summit and begins to tumble into permanent decline. This global meltdown has wrought a new breed of nihilism – eco-nihilism, psycho-nihilism, apocalypto-nihilism – for which no philosophy has ever been written, no remedy ever prescribed … Adbusters #84, Nihilism & Revolution, hits newsstands this week.

We are living in some crazy, contradictory times – every aspect of our lives is in upheaval. Our neoclassical economic model has proven a giant failure, so we’re devoting Adbusters #85 to exploring humanistic, ecological and no-growth alternatives. It’s going to be a big, fat 144 page issue. We want your stories … all the triumphs and disasters that come with living in (and breaking free of) the apocalyptic framework of megacorporate capitalism. Send your tales, epiphanies and laments to editor@adbusters.org.

One of the reasons I appreciate Adbusters is because they are a no bullshit organization/magazine that senses things are seriously screwed-up with the world, especially the Western world. But as a follower of Christ, I believe God provided rescue for all of humanity in Christ through the event of the Cross, and will re-create and restore the world back to the way He originally created it.

So how might we respond to Adbusters and the plenty of others who share the same hopeless, dystopic, nihilistic view of our contemporary world?

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to meld the Biblical Text with a commentary on American History?!

Thomas Nelson, that’s who.

Gregory Boyd in a two part review (part 1 and part 2) explores the utter ridiculousness of the patriotic agenda driven, consumeristic nonsense known as The American Patriot’s Bible.

Now I ‘get’ the whole theme-driven bible and even support it in concept (in the interest of full disclosure, my fiance is the marketing director for the bible division of a major competitor), but this is way beyond the pale.

My own review and commentary to follow.

Thoughts?

Last week I wrote about the launch of ZOOMAE, a hyper-local experiment that exists to empower dreamers to stimulate spiritual renewal in Grand Rapids through publishing, networking, and missional projects.

One of the biggest pieces will be the publishing piece.

The mission of ZOOMAE will initially happen through a publishing experiment. The idea of this experiment is to empower local Grand Rapids leaders and practitioners to speak prophetically into their city through the use of words, to articulate moral truth by pen and paper. While national religious publishing powerhouses publish broadly and nationally, we think there is an incredible opportunity to publish narrowly and hyper-locally in an effort to stimulate spiritual renewal and life transformation in our city. Many things nowadays are trending locally. Farmers markets, coffeeshops, news sources, and even water are attracting new attention and devotion from locals like never before. We think this hyper-local trend is priming our own city to receive the voices of local dreamers.

Each book will be targeted towards addressing the underlying stories, tensions, and problems that affect our city, Grand Rapids. They are designed to be read in two to four sittings by addressing specific topics in 80-100 pages. The books are meant to equip Christians to transform their city by being the continuing presence of Christ, while also resourcing churches to create necessary conversations that relate to our city.

These shorts will cover topic that fit into three broad categories: practical, theological, and biblical. The three categories will include topics such as:

Practical: HIV/AIDS, the poverty industry, addiction, creation care.
Theological: nature of salvation; doctrine of God; nature of the church.
Biblical: Jesus and Judaism, Kingdom of Heaven, development of the Bible.

The authors will be pastors, teachers, and practitioners who have a special burden for the city in these areas of interest, while providing insightful commentary and instruction out of their academic and practical expertise. All authors will be from and in the Grand Rapids area. Grand Rapids doesn’t need the voices from LA, Seattle, or Atlanta; Grand Rapids needs Grand Rapids voices. Additionally, all endorsers of each individual title will be from the area. Both requirements will ensure each title hyper-locally addresses the pressing topics each book addresses.

Each year ZOOMAE will focus on one broadly themed conversation. These books will help provoke that yearlong conversation through the actual books themselves, but also speaking gigs, local conferences, book signings, etc… We think our authors should have a voice. They do have a powerful voice and will speak powerful things into the life of the Church as She exists in Grand Rapids and we want to do everything possible to empower them to breath new life into it. In a few more posts we’ll announce the theme for 2010. So far we have 4 committed authors for 2010 with 2 more in the wings. If you are from the Grand Rapids area and would be interested in submitting a writing project, email me at jeremy@zoomae.org.

A child’s innocent, honest question silences the the prideful arrogance of adults.

May this be our prayer today.

Shift Happens:
Introduction
Cistern

A few weeks ago I began a series on the life of Joseph as representative of our own unexpected shifts.

We pick up the story with Joseph at the bottom of a cistern.

I can only imagine what Joseph was thinking: What has just happened? HOW did this happen? WHY is this happening

to me?

What about those dreams, the one’s God Himself gave me? What about his plans to make my life great?

How the hell does this fit in?

Remember that in many ways this was all set in motion because of the dreams God gave teenager Joseph In the ancient near east dreams were a common way of divine communication. Like his brothers (who were pretty ticked at those acts of divine communication, especially how Joseph bragged about those communiqués) Joseph would have understood its prophetic nature, that God was doing something in his life and saying something about him and his life.

So at the beginning of Joseph’s story you have God directing its events. These dreams are from God.

He not only gave literal dreams to Joseph, but also planted in his heart a seed of promise for his life. To this teenager these dreams would have meant 2 things: God has a plan for his life and those plans include some type of leadership.

So at an early age God give Joseph a vision for his life.

Maybe some of us have experienced that same kernel of life-vision. We have had some hopes and dreams for our lives, ones that we were certain were from God, and now our life has shifted.

Now we are sitting at the bottom of a cistern asking, “What is happening to me? What about God’s plans for my life? How will I survive?”

I know I was asking these questions after my shift in DC. I went to Washington with a vision of how God wanted to use me in American politics and culture. I was a bright-eyed, bushied-tailed, freshly graduated conservative Republican Christian who thought he was called to confront culture with Christ. but then

SHIFT!

And at the bottom of my own cistern I had a real hard time seeing how God would fulfill those dreams, let alone survive. Engulfed in the fallout from my unexpected shift, I remember walking outside the Capitol Building and sitting on some benches just outside the House Chambers. It was a nice DC summer evening and I just stared at the Capitol, not so much asking “Why?” but “What?” and “How?” I prayed, “God what have you done, what are you doing in my life? How does this fit in with your plans and how am I going to survive?”

But I did survive. And so did Joseph.

Why? Because “the Lord was with him” and “what was meant for evil, the Lord meant for good.”

Yesterday a friend of mine and I launched a hyper-local experiment for Grand Rapids, MI called ZOOMAE. In short, ZOOMAE exists to empower dreamers to stimulate spiritual renewal in Grand Rapids through publishing, networking, and missional projects. ZOOMAE is the english phonetic spelling of the greek word for “yeast” and is used by Jesus in Matt. 13 and Luke 13 to metaphorically describe the Kingdom of Heaven’s explosive growth and transformative power.

I simply love this metaphor! Yeast is incredibly tiny, simple, ordinary, normal, and seemingly insignificant. Yeast is also transformative and stimulates explosive growth when embedded and distributed throughout the locality of a lump of dough. Jesus says the same thing of the Kingdom of Heaven, of the Reign of God when those who are stewards and partners of that reign (the Church) are as equally embedded, distributed, planted, and partnered. Even though seemingly insignificant, normal in appearance, ordinary, very simple and incredibly small, individual Jesus-followers will exact tremendous transformational and stimulative influence on localities. When the Church hyper-locally lives out Her identity as the continuing presence of Jesus Christ by proclaiming the good news of the Reign of God, people and places will be transformed. When simple, ordinary, normal followers of Jesus live radical, embedded lives within particular localities, radical transformation and explosive growth will happen.

That is the vision of ZOOMAE: to empower simple, ordinary people of Grand Rapids to dream big for God in their city to stimulate spiritual renewal and life transformation.

In large ways the experiment was born out of several conversations among friends around the local watering hole. For some time a few of us have wondered how it would look and what would happen if we considered ourselves pastors to the city. Not a building or organization, but the whole city. It was also born out of a desire to empower local practitioners, pastors, leaders, and activists to speak prophetically into the city through the tangible, written medium of books. These two ideas morphed into a broader effort to empower Grand Rapids Christians to own their city in a way that would see the Kingdom of God descend and bring transformation.

Who knows where this will go over the coming months. Now we are finishing up the organizational ground work (i.e. board of directors and 501(c)3 application) and beginning to lay the ground work the rest of the year for the big launch in 2010. Over the coming weeks I will fill in some of the details like the publishing, networking, and missional aspects, as well as the coming theme for 2010. Until then, check out the Facebook page.

be His; just do,
-jeremy