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Taylor at his new job

Hello Papa Murphy's

If not now, when?

If you have never gone to Jon White-ville. Do it now.

Next Best Thing

John Raymond, Matt Henry and Thom Olson and I saw Bruce Springsteen and Session Band concert live in St. Paul last year. My cheeks are still sore from smiling for 3 hours during the show.
I loved it so much I wanted to load up my family and drive them to Chicago for the show.
Now the movie concert version will be in theaters for one night, the day before the release of the DVD.
So, if you want to go with me to the show at the Lagoon Theater on Monday the 4th let me know.
Who know, maybe it will be the next best thing to being there.

Midwest Gathering

This July there is a really interesting event going on in the Chicago area.
It is interesting partly in that it is designed by the cohort in the Chicago area.
I really like that the price is kept low - $40. This of-course comes at the cost of the presenters not being paid for presenting at the event, but that adds a nice flavor as well.

Consider joining in if you have the chance.

San Francisco Event June 12

The good folks over at ReImagine, have pulled together a little event in the Bay area on Tuesday, June 12.
Come one, come all,

Here is the email information I got about it today:

SAVE THE DATE!

Tuesday, June 12, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.

The stars have aligned and a critical mass of emerging church
leaders happen to be in the Bay Area on the same date. We thought this
convergence a good reason to host a day of conversation and
friendship-building among missional leaders and seekers.

Please join us for...

The Spiritual Ecology Project:
A day of conversation about the emerging church and God's mission in
our world.

Featuring: Karen Sloan
Ian Mobsby
Doug Pagitt
Nathan George
Mark Scandrette
Tony Jones
Bob Carlton

9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Introductions & Break Out conversations12 p.m. - 2
p.m. Lunch and continuing open source conversation

Come for all or a portion of the days festivities.

San Francisco Location TBA.

Limited Space available. Please RSVP to Amy Ross

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Not For Sale Effort

On Sunday we at Solomon's Porch joined in the first Abolitionist Sunday. It all started with an Art Expose on Saturday that I will post about later.
Abolitionist Sunday is an effort of a number of organization who have worked for years to raise awareness of Human Trafficking and 21st Century Slavery.
We are joining in the effort of Not For Sale along with other groups like Protest 4 who are doing great work.

There were many who asked during our gatherings on Sunday about the prevalence of this in the United Sates and in Minnesota.

Well as it turns out over the weekend there was significant series of raids that revealed a sex trafficking ring in Minneapolis. You can read about it in this article

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At Mars Hill Graduate School June 2

June 1-3 I am going to be in Seattle.

Friday and Saturday I will be part of the Zondervan hosted event Emergence.
Then on Saturday night I will be at Mars Hill Graduate school (by the way the school is not affiliated in any way with the church that is hosting the Emergence Event also called Mars Hill). The event starts at 7 PM and will run for a few hours, then I suspect some of us will go out and keep the conversation going.

If you are interested in being part of the conversation at MHGS follow the link.

Radio Interview

So i was interviewed last week by a woman named Ingrid Schlueter.

You can listen to it here.

It is unbelievable.
She then has a fellow named Bob DeWaay comment on my interview.

And then she does a blog post saying not very nice things.

Update:
Whenever I break one of my blog rules it comes around to bite me in the butt.
I have rules about not putting content on the blog, but rather updates and not allowing people to have conversations in the comment section.
I get all kinds of grief for this, but it is the only way for me to keep from going nutty.
But I left comments open on this one and then had not checked it for a day because I was busy painting a house.
And when I looked today it had devolved into people writing not helpful things, so I am closing the comments.
I am not doing this to stop discussion. I am doing this because this kind of interaction is not discussion. Rather it is people not using their real names writing accusatory things.

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Solomon's Porch CD

Every year or so our musicians put together a recording of songs that have become part of our collective life at Solomon's Porch.
They have recently completed a set of songs that come from our Sunday Gatherings. In the past the collections have included music of all sorts from our community.

Invite Us,

is a collection of 12 songs written over the last 18 months or so and have become part of Solomon's Porch "sound track".

There are another 12 or so songs that didn't make the CD since it was recorded in on long weekend at Ben's house.
That's right, they did the CD in three days in Ben's living room. Then added in a few tracks of kid singers and adults on the song Invite Us.
If you are interested in the CD you can order it here or on Itunes by searching for Solomon's Porch or going here and clicking itunes under the cover image.