Join us in sunny San Diego for a three day "learning party" that will stretch your mind, fill your heart, and encourage you toward the future. At each Soularize, we bring together an unparalleled combination of keynote presenters and workshop leaders...
Blue Like Jazz The Movie
Special Screening
Wednesday, October 19th (7:30pm)
Missiongathering Church
Based on the best-selling book by Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz The Movie was on its way to being shelved because of a lack of funds. With a passion to see the project continue,...
Workshops
At Soularize 2011, we are featuring workshop in eight unique tracks (found below) for the purpose of communicating the themes of our conversation, but attendees can choose any variety of workshops to attend. With eight tracks at six workshop sessions,...
Music
Bill Mallonee is the songwriter and leader of Vigilantes of Love, an Americana/Alt-Country/Rock band from Athens, Georgia. Though the Vigilantes disbanded in 2001 and recently reformed in 2008, Mallonee continues writing, singing, and playing his music...
**Rachel Held Evans**
FEATURED FRESH VOICE
Each year, Soularize introduces our community to a fresh voice who we believe will significantly add to the conversation. Soularize 2011 is excited to feature Rachel Held Evans as an emerging communicator with a growing influence...
Jay Bakker
Jay Bakker grew up witnessing both the good and bad of the church. His parents are Jim and Tammy Faye, ministers-turned-TV-hosts who helped start both the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the 700 Club in the 1970’s, and later founded the PTL (Praise...
Brian Ammons
Brian Ammons is an educator, spiritual director, writer, and ordained Baptist minister. He lives and works in the intersections of gender, sexuality, spirituality, and justice.
Brian is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Education...
John Caputo
John D. Caputo is a hybrid philosopher/theologian intent on producing impure thoughts, thoughts which circulate between philosophy and theology, short-circuits which deny fixed and rigorous boundaries between philosophy and theology. Caputo treats "sacred"...
Tim King
Tim King is CEO of Presence International – an NGO focusing on framing the biblical narrative via a dialogue between theology, philosophy and behavioral science. By utilizing contemporary models of spirituality and higher consciousness, Presence is actively...
Monica Coleman
Monica A. Coleman is a scholar and activist who is committed to connecting faith and social justice. An ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Coleman has earned degrees at Harvard University, Vanderbilt University and Claremont Graduate...
Peter Rollins
Dr. Pete Rollins is a widely sought after writer, lecturer, storyteller and public speaker. He is also the founder of ikon, a faith group that has gained an international reputation for blending live music, visual imagery, soundscapes, theatre, ritual...
Rita Nakashima Brock
Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock is an award-winning author, most recently of Saving Paradise, and theologian. A professor for 20 years, she was a Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School Center for Values in Public Life in 2001. She led the team that created...
Mark Scandrette
Mark Scandrette is an author, teacher, activist and networker among innovative Christian leaders. His books include Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life together in the Kingdom of Love, and Soul Graffiti: Making A Life Together in the Way of Jesus. He is a contributor...
Rich McCullen
Rich McCullen is the Founding and Lead Pastor of Missiongathering Christian Church. His first years of Ministry were within the ministries of Youth for Christ/Campus Life. He has been called visionary, innovative and a progressive Evangelical thinker....
Host: Spencer Burke
Spencer Burke continually integrates his passion for the Church, arts, culture and technology, sparking new thought and conversation in his audiences and clients. Whether speaking to 10,000 or dialoguing with 10, he encourages people to view their business,...
Philip Clayton
Dr. Philip Clayton is a philosopher and theologian specializing in the entire range of issues that arise at the intersection between science and religion. Over the last several decades he has published and lectured extensively on all branches of this...
Barry Taylor
Dr. Barry Taylor is the Associate Rector at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, California. He also teaches theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he is the Artist-in-Residence for the Brehm Center, and he teaches advertising...
Claudio Oliver
Claudio Oliver lives in Curitiba, Southern Brazil and has been working with urban poor, young people and communities for 25 years. In 2011, Claudio and others will be launching an International Learning Community based on spirituality, organic farming,...
Tripp Fuller
Tripp Fuller is the co-host of the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast. Guests have included Rob Bell, N.T. Wright, Marcus Borg, Brian McLaren, John Dominic Crossan, Walter Brueggemann, Bart Ehrman, Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Phyllis Tickle, Elizabeth Johnson,...
Phil Shepherd
Phil Shepherd (A.K.A. The Whiskey Preacher) is a native of Anchorage, Alaska, who has lived and pastored from that extreme corner of the continent to the other extreme corner known as Florida. In between these extremes, Phil has resided in Vancouver,...
Kristina Keefe-Perry
Kristina Keefe-Perry is a member of Rochester Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and Travels in the Ministry under a minute endorsed by that Meeting. She serves as an Elder and also co-leads retreats on prayer, Earthcare as a spiritual...
Callid Keefe-Perry
Callid Keefe-Perry is a Member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Rochester, NY and travels in the ministry carrying a concern for exploring how language and experience interact to shape our dreams and hopes for the future. He is the national...
Gareth Higgins
Gareth Higgins grew up in northern Ireland, and after receiving his Ph.D. in Sociology, worked as an academic at Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin. He co-founded the zero28 Project, a post-sectarian peacebuilding initiative; co-presents...
Jerry Campbell
Rev. Dr. Jerry D. Campbell is the President of Claremont School of Theology and an ordained Elder of The United Methodist Church who has a long career in the administration in theological schools and higher education. He has served as head librarian...
