I am sitting in the Phoenix, Arizona airport en route to New York City after a wonderful three days at the Emergent Church Conference hosted by the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque. My friend Don Chaffer (the very talented songwriter and leader of the band Waterdeep) and I led worship along with his pal Greg LaFollette. Phyllis Tickle, Brian McLaren, Shane Claiborne, Richard Rohr and Alexie Fleming Torres spoke and it was a great three days from top to bottom.
As with most conferences some of the best stuff happened in the hallways and over meals and beers. I spent a lot of time with my dear friend Gareth Higgins, hung out a little with Karen Sloan, and other miscreants. Its been a long time since I laughed as hard as I have over the last three days.
I led a worship service last night where we had the people do a three minute chant of the word 'shalom' followed by a time in silence. It was very stirring to hear 1000 people doing a free form chant of the the word shalom in harmony. Heavenly.
I am on the board of new effort to start a Greenbelt-like event in the US and it is really ramping up. Mike King, Karla Yaconelli, Bill Hartnett, Robin Fillmore and I are driving the effort along with Brian Mclaren, Richard Rohr and Jim Wallis. This is going to be a very cool festival focused on issues of justice, the arts and faith. Go to facebook and sign up to be a fan. This thing is going to take off like a rocket so get on board. More on this later.
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