"A radically welcoming community seeks to welcome the voices, presence and power of all people — especially those who have been defined as The Other, pushed to the margins, cast out, silenced and closeted — so they can help to shape the congregation’s common life and fulfill the reconciling dream of God."
Stephanie Spellers, Treasurer, Canon
for Missional Vitality, Diocese of
Long Island / Keynote Presenter
For Stephanie Spellers the secret of evangelism begins in the margins
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"Many church members today recognize that evangelism is vitally necessary for the church to have a future amidst widespread decline. At the same time, few prospects provoke greater dread and discomfort. This conference offers an opportunity to reframe evangelism in a grounded, holistic, accessible way for a new apostolic age."
Dwight Zscheile, assistant professor
congregational mission and leadership
Luther Seminary / keynote presenter
The Rethinking Evangelism conference brings nationally known
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Courtney Young is a May 2012 graduate of Luther Seminary - MDiv with an emphasis in Congregational Mission and Leadership. Missional, millenial and now, a new mother, Courtney shares her thoughts with us here:
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the church and social media. Partly because I used to work in seminary relations so I got to troll a lot of bad church websites and snicker because it's not 1995 anymore. Partly because I recently attended a consultation that was tackling
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The international journal
Missiology
, the premier journal in the field, has made its current issue (
January 2013
) available for free online this month. If you're curious about the scholarly discussion on missional leadership -- and we hope you will be -- check it out. In particular our own Terri Elton has
an excellent piece on the intersection of missiology and youth ministry
, and there are compelling pieces on
narrative engagement
,
undergraduate perceptions of mission
, and
hip hop theology in
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