Plans are coming together for the next TransFORM regional gathering, which is being organized this time in partnership with our friends at Parish Collective. It’s going to be a West Coast gathering, April 29-30 at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, and I’m really excited about the amazing missional practitioners who’ll be participating.

I’ll be in Seattle this week (Tuesday night through Thursday night) to finalize some of the details that we plan to announce very soon, including main session speakers, workshop leaders, registration, etc.! Watch for another update soon.

If you’re in the Seattle area, I’d love to connect with you in person! Please shoot me an email and let’s try to meetup while I’m out there.

Here are some links that are worth checking out as we consider together how to form new emergent missional communities of practice:

What are some of the implications of “social constructionism” on missional community formation? That’s the question to consider after watching this video interview with leading thinker Kenneth Gergen (in English and Espanol) »

Anthony Smith has started a series of blog posts reflecting on the writing of social learning theorist Etienne Wenger. Read his first post on “Mobilizing an Army of Love” »

Anthony and I will be leading a workshop on missional communities at the next Big Tent Christianity conference, February 10-11 in Phoenix, Arizona. Join us and others from TransFORM (Eliacin Rosario-Cruz, Tripp Fuller, etc.). Register by January 28 to save $10 »

The Evolutionary Christianity teleseminar series has made available an amazing assortment of conversations on faith and science, and it is continuing with a number of live seminars/online discussions over the next two weeks. Access audio from previous teleseminars and get more info about the upcoming live seminars »

Jonathan Brink is working on editing essays for the first Civitas Press project, “The Practice of Love: Living Into the Kingdom of God.” Find out more and how you might be able to be involved »