we are off...

so holly and i am off to new mexico for the emergent gathering... it will be a refreshing and inspiring time methinks...

i will be leading/facilitating a couple of the discussions this year:

- failed church planters [read very tongue in cheek] - we will discuss re-evaluating what success looks like, re-examine the role of a pastor/shepherd vs. teacher/mentor, and challenge modern understandings just for the hell of it!...

- merton's inter-religious dialogue - while reading merton's mystics and zen masters i have come up with many questions about god's involvement in the origin of other traditions other than the hebrew tradition (which feeds judaism, christianity, and islam)... we will possibly look at some clips from 'hero' and consider where god may be at work where we have least expected him...

so, we are camping on the way out and on the way back...

oh, and this is big: we will be catching a muse show while we are out there... they are playing in albuquerque on wednesday... wow...

perhaps i will be on blogging hiatus... perhaps no... we shall see...