Last night Aaron, Jason, and I converged on The Flat Top Grill in Oak Park and then made our way over to the Dominican University for Brian McLaren’s lecture, Truth Telling in Christian America: Globalization, Poverty, and the Environment. We hadn’t seen each other for months. Jason lives nearby, but Aaron lives at the other end of the Chicagoland area. We found the Dominican staff to be gracious hosts and Mclaren to be insightful, as always.
It was quite a surprise to meet Off The Map web coordinator and Conversation At The Edge blogger, Helen Mildenhall there. Jason had met her at an Uprooted conference. We all had a nice chat together and found out that she was acquainted with two other good blogger friends, Erin Word and John Smulo.
McLaren has a way of seeing things differently that just makes too much sense to ignore. I look forward to reading his new book, Everything Must Change. Maybe, some of us could blog our way through the book together.
Helen’s excellent summary of the lecture
Helen’s post about the evening
Jason’s post about the evening
Indeed great to get together again finally….come look us up at The Fringe any Sunday at 10:30AM. We meet at a variety of houses currently. This week is at our house.
By: Jason on October 17, 2007
at 4:39 pm
We take you up on that. Let me talk to Patty when she get back from Spain. Thanks for the invite!
By: Glenn on October 17, 2007
at 5:53 pm
A group blogging through a book? What an interesting idea. I haven’t read it yet…so we’ll see. Though I tend to not be so good at book reviews…
By: Erin on October 17, 2007
at 11:37 pm
Erin- I am not into writing reviews either. I was hoping for more of a using the book as a springboard for discussion. This seems like an important book for our times. So, I hope to experiment with the blogging/discussion thing.
By: Glenn on October 18, 2007
at 11:16 am
[...] she did a great job of blogging a lot of his lecture, which you can findhere. My friends Jason and Glenn also attended with me and they also shared there experience and [...]
By: //re:generate » Blog Archive » "Truthiness” in “Christian” America on November 8, 2007
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