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Responses to Rachel Held Evans’ Questions
Before her presentation for AzFCT on “Evolving Faith’ Rachel asked two questions on her blog: 1. What made you leave, or consider leaving, the Church? (or, What made you stay?) 2. In what practical ways would you like to see folks from older generations come alongside us as we evolve and make our faith our own? The responses were thoughtful and often beautifully written. If you are wondering what Gen-Xers are thinking...
Read MoreNo Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity–February 24-25
No Ordinary Time: The Rise of Spiritual Intelligence and Evolutionary Creativity with author/artist/activist Jan Phillips. Many momentous things have happened to you in your life and each one of them is grist for your creative mill. Each one has provided you with the raw materials to create a life that is meaningful, joyful and spirit-fueled. Had it not been for those breakdowns, catastrophes, and miracles...
Read MoreQuantum Theology: Our Spooky Interconnectedness
It’s possible to avoid God-talk for long stretches of time. Any canny Christian can do that, in order to make friends and influence people. Or just to get relief from bad clichés. But, at a certain point, one has to face up to the profundity and brilliance of the conceptual work that was done in the Western world for more than 1500 years, when it was dominated by the discipline of theology. But we don’t want to reduce...
Read MoreRachel Held Evans–January 21, 2012
Rachel Held Evans is an award-winning author and popular blogger from Dayton, Tennessee—home of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Rachel’s first book, Evolving in Monkey Town explores the relationship between faith and doubt and recounts the challenges of asking tough questions about Christianity in the context of the Bible Belt. She says, ”It’s about moving from certainty, through doubt, to faith. It’s...
Read MoreGod After Darwin: Evolution, Christian Faith and Spirituality, November 4–5
In the popular media, evolution and religion are portrayed as engaged in a war to the death; one must die so that the other can be pronounced the victor. But is there really no place for God after Darwin? In this series of lectures, round table discussions, and dialogues with the audience, Philip Clayton explores the compatibility of Christianity and evolution, offering a vision of an “evolutionary spirituality” that...
Read MoreThe Gospel According to Science – Michael Dowd in dialogue with Michael Morwood– November 13th, 6:00 pm
Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution, will discuss how understanding evolution can be the basis for a deeply inspiring and meaningful view of our place in the cosmos. His multimedia presentation reveals how a sacred science-based understanding of human nature, death, and the trajectory of big history can offer a realistically hopeful and inspiring vision of the future. He also offers practical tools for growing in right...
Read MoreBig Tent Christianity
Big Tent Christianity-Phoenix in February 2011 was a convergence of new and old ways of being and becoming the Church: progressive and emergent, denominational and non-denominational, large and small faith communities, describable and undescribable. Bringing people together from across the country to proclaim what unites us as followers of Jesus in this modern world, BTX showcased more than a dozen leading Christian voices who broke...
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