SVS Events

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The second annual Society of Vineyard Scholars Conference will be held February 3-5, 2011, in Seattle, Washington, USA. The theme of the conference is "By The Renewal Of Your Mind: Imagining, Describing, and Enacting the Kingdom of God." The conference will be hosted by Dr. Rose Madrid-Swetman, co-pastor of Vineyard Community Church in Shoreline, WA.

Our keynote speaker and external respondent will be Professor James K. A. Smith of Calvin College. Smith is a highly acclaimed Christian philosopher, theologian, and cultural critic with astute insight into education, worship, postmodernity, orthodoxy, and the Kingdom of God. His book Desiring The Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation won the 2010 Christianity Today book award in Theology/Ethics. A Pentecostal who has found his home in the Christian Reformed Church, he is a friend of the Vineyard with much of value to say to the Society of Vineyard Scholars. (Click to see Prof. Smith's website)

Alongside our regular panel sessions, we will also have special opportunities to hear from Professor Bo Karen Lee (Princeton Theological Seminary), Dr. Bob Ekblad (Tierra Nueva/Mars Hill Graduate School; author of Reading The Bible With The Damned and A New Christian Manifesto), Bert Waggoner (National Director, VineyardUSA), and others to be announced.

Six panel sessions spread over Thursday afternoon, Friday and Saturday morning will feature presentations of and responses to papers written by SVS participants, focusing on aspects of the conference’s larger theme. This intellectual interaction forms the heart of what we do at SVS.

Also, we will make time for prayer, worship, and prophetic ministry. We highly value the essential relationship between the worship and the life of the mind, and we will bear that value out in our time together.

Finally, along with the papers, presentations, worship, and prophetic ministry, we will allow plenty of time at this conference for people to interact and form relationships. Our goal is to develop and nurture a community of theological discourse in the Vineyard, and we are committed to allowing the time that it takes to do so. There will be a wine and cheese reception, lunchtime breakouts for people with particular shared interests, and more.

How To Submit A Paper To The 2011 SVS Annual Conference

All who are working on or have earned a graduate degree in any field are invited and encouraged to submit a paper for consideration that has general relevance to the conference theme. There are also four specific areas under the general rubric of the conference theme in which submissions are particularly encouraged this year: Imagining Discipleship, Doctrines of Justification, Epistemology and the Kingdom, and the Formation of Orthodoxy.

For a full description of the general theme and specific foci of this conference, as well as for technical details on how to submit your work, click here to download the 2011 Call For Papers.

Registering For The SVS Annual Conference

Registration is not yet open for the conference. When it opens, you will be notified by email.
If you are not on the SVS email list, please sign up here.

Scholarships

The SVS will be able to provide a limited number of small scholarships to people who need assistance with their travel costs. We expect that these funds will cover a portion of an individual's expenses.

To apply, send an itemized travel budget after you have registered for the conference to societyofvineyardscholars@gmail.com. We will quickly let you know how much we can offer you as a scholarship so that you can finalize your plans. These funds are limited and available on a first come, first served basis, so do not delay in making your requests.

Please only apply for this scholarship if you have a genuine financial need. Your poorer colleagues will be grateful!

Conference Travel and Accommodation

Location
The conference is being held at:
Vineyard Community Church
14800 1st Ave NE,
Shoreline WA 98155

Airports // Ride Sharing
The nearest airport is Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
The conference center is 25 minutes north of the airport.

After conference registration opens, we will make information available about ride sharing to and from the airport.

Hotels // Room Sharing

Conference attendees are responsible for their own accommodations.

After conference registration opens, we will provide information about how to arrange room sharing with other participants.

Contact the SVS

Thank you for your interest in the Society of Vineyard Scholars. If you have any further questions that are not answered on these pages, please contact the Society of Vineyard Scholars by email at societyofvineyardscholars@gmail.com.

We hope that we will see you in February at the 2011 Annual Conference in Seattle!