2011 Society of Vineyard Scholars Annual Conference

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."

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. 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. 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, Vineyard USA), and others to be announced. Also, we will make time for prayer, worship, prophetic ministry, as well as allowing plenty of time for people to interact and form relationships.

The mission of the Society of Vineyard Scholars is to foster a community of theological discourse in the Vineyard movement.

Contact: societyofvineyardscholars@gmail.com