Sun rising on a new day and a new hope

Q - Rob Bell

John 3 v 16 - for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only sonSits at centre of christian faithGod who created everything gave his son to reconclie all things on heaven and on earth to him through the sonWe have to be thankfulWe’re to live a life of responseBe thankfulBe [...]

Q - Philip Verre

Philip Verre - the Louvre - High Museum of Art
- Renzo Piano one of the architects- one of top 20 museums in USA, 400k visitors- cultural beacon of the entire south east- work with other museums around the world to bring collections to Atlanta- have a partnership 2006-2009 with the Louvre, Paris- professional exchange with [...]

Q - Jon Passavant

Jon Passavant - model home project- pastor’s kid- one of top 5 male models in the world
How did you get into it?- school- was applying for seminary (father was a church planter)- opportunity to enter culture in a radical way was presented- father encouraged him to take a risk and even when not knowing the [...]

Q - Susan Grant

Susan Grant - EVP at CNN - power of media
- responsible for online properties at CNN
Areas of responsibilityCNN.comCNNmoney.comRelationships with TV stations in NAMCNN radioBusiness area
CNN & the future- predicting the future hard for organisations based on facts- tend to cover what is going on, rather than predicting- news & journalism tries to stay out of [...]

Q - Michael Lindsay

Michael Lindsay - sociologist
Interviewed leaders - in politics, in business, in mediaThere is a cosmopolitan intelligence in evidence - they draw their intel from different sources. They draw upon small groups, other Christians but also intel from other sources outside of the church. Cosmopolitan = citizen of the world, about worldliness in its best possible [...]

Q - Catherine Rohr

WOW! This was the talk with the biggest single impact on me of the whole conference. Ironically I wrote my notes rather than typed them, as th talk was a barstool type conversation with Gabe Lyons so I wasn’t sure it was her main talk - 5 mins in I realised it was! By then [...]

Q - Majora Carter

Majora Carter spoke today. I didn’t actually take notes - one because she speaks too fast but mostly two because I’d posted her video a while back on this post as she also spoke at TED. Well worth watching and it has the added benefit of not making you read more of my notes. You [...]

Q - bloggers of the world unite!

Had my first blogger meet up today with Josh Scott of The way I think which was good. Who says online community is not real?
Josh - you’re now officially on my blogroll. Looking forward to hear what you have to say post the conference and hope to catch up with you later this year.

Q - Shayne Wheeler & chris Seay panel

Shayne Wheeler & Chris Seay - HomosexualitySo much of GLBT community’s identity wrapped up in homosexuality so that when we say God hates the sin, they hear God hates mePeople see Christians on TV saying 9/11 happened as judgement because gay people existWe need to say that these people don’t represent us, the same way [...]