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, that’s a total of 48 workshops you’ll have access to as a participant.

 

Many of these workshops will be hosted by well-known speakers, but we’re also looking for fresh voices. A number of established authors and speakers developed their material as a workshop at Soularize over the past ten years. If you’re interested in presenting a workshop, please fill out the Workshop Submission Form for consideration. After submission, we’ll let you know within one week if your workshop has been approved.

 

 

EIGHT UNIQUE WORKSHOP TRACKS
As workshops are approved, we’ll list the presenters and workshop titles below the tracks…

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Church Planting: Learning from Practical Field Guides
1. Quaker Practices of Communal Discernment - Kristina and Callid Keefe-Perry
2.  Down We Go: Living into the Wild Ways of Jesus in Community - Kathy Escobar
3. Show Me the Money: Funding the Emerging Missional Church – Steve Knight
4. Thin Places: Creating and Practicing Missional Community - Jon Huckins
5. Planting A Missional, Attractional Church - Rich McCullen
6. Profano-Theology Presents: How to Run a Mega Church - Barry Taylor & Tripp Fuller

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Creativity: Expressing the Gospel
1. Play Is Your Secret Weapon – Angie and Todd Fadel
2. Evangelism in the Inventive Age - Doug Pagitt
3. Theopoetics and Hypertheism: Actually Believing Things in an Ironic World - Callid Keefe-Perry
4. Writing, Publishing, and Other Doomsday Prophesies – Jordan Green & Dan Gibson
5. The Medium is the Gesture: Art, Design, Sex and Religion – Barry Taylor
6. Relational Tithe in the Middle East - Darin Petersen & Ben Younan
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Family: Ministering to the Whole
1. Not Now Jesus, I Have a Career: Risking Radical Discipleship Before You Retire - Jerry Campbell
2. The Gospel Re-Loaded: Guilt, Shame & Sozo – Mark Karris
3. Creative Family Living – Mark and Lisa Scandrette
4. The Invitation to Sabbath: Radical and Practical – Kristina Keefe-Perry
5. Am I Normal? – Healthy Sexual Development Thru the Lifespan – Becky Knight
6. “By the Way” Teaching - Jeff Chaves

Hot Topics: Talking Through the Tension
1. Assaulted by Joy: Redeeming Cynicism - Stephen Simpson
2. Why (and How) Christian Theology Has Real Life Implication in Israel and Palestine – Jon Huckins
3. Haters Gonna Love: Communication That Doesn’t Suck, in a World of Conflict – Dave Huth & Jonathan Case
4. The Church and Homosexuality 101 – Brian Ammons
5. Common Ground: Seeking Understanding of Christian Language from Different Traditions - Connie Waters & Jay Bakker
6. Towards a Progressive Christian Sexual Ethic – Brian Ammons

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Social Action: Integrating Justice & the Church
1. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Exceptionally Brave: How a Radical Political Experiment in the land of Bono and Lucky Charms could change America for the Better – Gareth Higgins
2. Privilege, Power, Politics, and Peace – Christian Piatt
3. Responding Eucharistically to a Hurting World – Julie Clawson
4. Slave Free Earth – Will and Cathy Henderson
5. Doing Justice to Spiritual Warfare: Waging a Shalom-shaped War Against Injustice - Kurt Willems
6. Unbordered faith: Faith-based humanitarian work on the US-Mexico border- where do we go from here? - Maryada Vallet

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Spirituality: Connecting with the Divine
1. Using Prayer Bowls in Christian Contemplation – Jim Robertson
2. Creating Right-Fit Spiritual Practices – Rachelle Mee-Chapman
3. The Dignities and Disasters of the Stages of our Lives (Understanding 1st and 2nd Tier Thinking) – Tim King
4. Presence, Transcendence and the Final Frontier of Consciousness – Tim King
5. Enter the Jesus Dojo - Mark Scandrette
6. Connecting with the Divine in the Everyday – Greg Richardson

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Technology: Finding Your Digital Voice
1. Humor, Hospitality, & Humility on the Internet - Aric Clark, Doug Hagler, Nick Larson (hosts of Two Friars & A Fool Podcast)
2. Digital Storytelling – Jeff Chaves
3. Beyond the Blog: Using Online Tools to Build Soulful Communities – Rachelle Mee-Chapman
4. Finding A Voice Amidst the Noise – Caleb Seeling & Mike DeVries

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Theology: Building a Framework for Ministry
1. Apologetics in a Postmodern World - Jared Byas
2. The Topsy-Turvy God & the Inside-Out Church: Being (and Thinking) Christian in the Postmodern World – Dr. Philip Clayton
3. Preaching After God – Phil Snider
4. What’s the Big Deal About Jesus?: A Workshop on how to actually Theologize – Starting with the One who Started the Controversy - Monica Coleman
5. Scripture Is Not God? Questioning What’s At The Center Of Our Theology – Phil Shepherd
6. The Glory of Humanity and Soul Repair - Rita Brock