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Alise Barrymore
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concentric circles of christian compassion
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Alise Barrymore is one of the founding pastors of The Emmaus Community, a non-denominational
community of faith in the suburbs of Chicago. She graduated from Yale University
and McCormick Theological Seminary and is currently a DMin, candidate. One of her
greatest joys is having completed the Chicago Marathon in 2008.
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Elaine Heath
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missional, emergent, monastic, methodist, newday
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and the instigator of The People of New Day, a network of micro-communities of prayer
and action in the United Methodist tradition. She wrote The Mystic Way of Evangelism
(2008) and Naked Faith (2009).
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Diana Butler Bass
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the past takes us forward
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Diana is an independent scholar and author of seven books on American religion,
including her new A People's History of Christianity. She holds a Ph.D. in religious
studies from Duke and has taught at both undergraduate and graduate levels. A popular
speaker and public teacher, she has many media credits including appearance on CNN,
FOX, and PBS.
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Denise VanEck
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new tribalism
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For more than fifteen years, Denise has been a speaker, trainer, pastor and consultant
to churches and non-profits, specializing in organizational culture and leadership.
Denise is mother to four, grandmother to three and hangs with a tribe called HNL.
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Seth Donovan
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confession: a relief from righteousness
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Seth is sitting in a coffee shop in Denver, CO presently wondering how she's going
to come out to her queer friends about the fact that she is presenting at a "christian"
conference in October. Other things she's thinking about today: how she's tired
of deriving identity from the two dozen social justice organizations she works with/for;
why her 362nd attempt to leave "the church" in the last decade of her life has failed
again; and how she's going to weave that new cello part into the song her band is
working on. She hopes to have that all figured out by the time she gets home tonight
to 3 housemates, 2 cats, 1 tarantula, and her homeslice.
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Jenell Paris
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coming out of all closets
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Jenell Williams Paris is professor of anthropology at Messiah College in Grantham,
PA. She and her husband, James, are raising three boys. Jenell is the author of, Birth Control for Christians: Making Wise Choices
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Lisa Domke
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no more us and them
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Rev. Lisa Domke is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is
involved with a number of faith-based and community action groups dedicated to pursuing
justice, promoting human rights, and protecting the environment. In recent years,
Lisa has focused on helping people of faith find ways to engage and speak in the
public and political arena, and on building bridges ecumenically and in the interfaith/interspirituality
realm. Lisa serves on the board of the Church Council of Greater Seattle and facilitates
meetings of the Emergent Village Cohort for Seattle/Tacoma.
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Phyllis Tickle
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a rummage sale every 500 years
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Phyllis Tickle is a sociologist of religion, an analytic observer and recorder of
the Great Emergence in North America, and an active practitioner of Anglimergent
Christianity. She is the author of many books.
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Jeanne Stevens
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HUMBITIOUS - women & ambition, power, humility
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Jeanne Stevens has been working in ministry for the past 15 years. She is a leader,
author, speaker, and new church planter. Jeanne has been married to Jarrett Stevens
for 13 years. They live in Atlanta, GA with their 2 kids Elijah & Gigi.
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Sally Morganthaler
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blur: the cultural disappearance of dualism
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Known best for her book, Worship Evangelism, Sally Morgenthaler teaches at seminaries
and conferences across North America. Her focus has shifted from worship to following
Christ outside the building, and the radical contextualization required in the post-Christendom
shift.
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Lauren Winner
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writing saves my life
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Lauren F. Winner is the author of three books, Girl Meets God, Mudhouse Sabbath,
and Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity. She has appeared on PBS's Religion
& Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The
Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity
Today. Winner has degrees from Duke, Columbia, and Cambridge universities, and holds
a Ph.D. in history. The former book editor for Beliefnet, Lauren teaches at Duke
Divinity School, and lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Nanette Sawyer
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jesus is not only anything
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Nanette is the organizing pastor of Wicker Park Grace, a faith community that meets
in an art gallery in Chicago. She also serves on the Interfaith Relations Commission
of the National Council of Churches of Christ. She is the author of, Hospitality: The Sacred Art.
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Debbie Blue
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jesus' body is hot again
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Debbie Blue is one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy, a church in St. Paul,
Minnesota. She is the author of Sensual Orthodoxy (Cathedral Hill Press, 2003) and From Stone to Living Word: Letting the Bible Live Again (Brazos Press, 2008). Her
essays, sermons, and reflections on the scripture have appeared in Life in Body,
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross, The Image Journal, Geez, and The Christian
Century.
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Carla Barnhill
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Theology of the open hand
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Carla Barnhill is an editor, a writer, a mother, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a
preacher, a teacher, a lover and a fighter. She is a rock, she is an island. She
is better at some of these than others.
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Alyce McKenzie
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save your receipt right now!
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Alyce McKenzie is a United Methodist pastor, preacher, storyteller, and biblical
scholar who is obsessed with thinking about, writing about, talking about, and attempting
to live by the Bible's wisdom. She teaches preaching at Perkins School of Theology,
SMU, frequently escaping from the classroom to interact with wisdom seeking people
in workshops all around the country. In her search for wisdom, she has never met
a dessert she didn't like.
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Kelly Bean
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the power of small....
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Kelly Bean is Coordinator of Convergence; a network for emerging women leaders.
Kelly pastors an organic faith community called Third Saturday which she has cultivated
for over 20 years. Kelly cares about social justice, good food, art and ritual,
Africa, community, always learning, her family and...
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Sybil MacBeth
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praying in color--doodling redefined
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Sybil is a dancer, doodler, and former community college math professor. With a
short attention span and a restless body, she explores prayer forms for different
learning styles, and she is the author of Praying in Color.
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Julie Clawson
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seeking justice in the everyday
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Julie Clawson (M.A, Intercultural Studies, Wheaton College Graduate School) is a
mother, writer, blogger and moderator of the Emerging Women and Emerging Parents
blogs. She formerly served as a church planter and co-pastor of Via Christus Community
Church in Yorkville, Illinois and currently lives in Austin, Texas. She is the author
of Everyday Justice.
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Shauna Niequist
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your story must be told
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Shauna Niequist is the author of Cold Tangerines, a collection of essays about celebrating
everyday life. She has worked at Willow Creek outside Chicago and Mars Hill in Grand
Rapids. She lives outside Chicago with her husband Aaron and their son Henry, and
is at work on another book.
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Makeesha Fisher
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doubt is the new faith
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Makeesha grew up in Pentecostal Evangelicalism of the Word of Faith variety in places
like North Dakota and Montana. As an adult, she embarked on a frustrating, exasperating
and wondrous journey of faith and now finds herself somewhere she never thought
she'd be. She is the co-leader of Revolution in Fort Collins, CO and is the "north
of Denver" Emergent Village Cohort contact.
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