Blogging from Chicago this week

April 6th, 2008 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0) |

I’m heading to Chicago on Tuesday to attend a pair of conferences: the Shift Student Ministry Conference and the Wheaton Theology Conference. I’m staying with my good friend and academic journal connoisseur, Brandon Mick. Like the National Youth Workers Convention last fall, I’ll be blogging my experience throughout the week.

Here’s a rough (and flexible) schedule of what I’ll be doing this week.

Wednesday

[Shift Conference]
9:00 – 10:30am — Brian McLaren, Everything Must Change; worship with Charlie Hall
11:15 – 12:45pm — Mark Yaconelli, Failure, Frustration & Loss: The Youth Worker’s Path to Holiness; worship with Charlie Hall
2:15 – 3:45pm — Shane Claiborne, The Scandal of Grace; worship with Charlie Hall

Thursday

[Shift Conference]
7:45 – 8:30am — Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President
9:00 – 10:30am — Brian McLaren, Onramp to the Postmodern Conversation
11:00 – 12:30pm — Scot McKnight, Missional Jesus
2:00 – 3:30pm — Tommy McClam, Mentoring Students in Your Ministry
4:00 – 5:30pm — Kara Powell, Deep Justice in a Broken World
[Wheaton Theology Conference]
7:30 – 8:30pm — Kevin Vanhoozer, Keynote Address #1

Friday

[Shift Conference]
7:45 – 8:30am — Aaron Niequist, Worship Songwriters Unite!
9:00 – 10:30am — Kara Powell, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World; worship with Brandon Grissom
11:15 – 12:45pm — Dan Kimball, They Like Jesus, But Not the Church; worship with Brandon Grissom
[Wheaton Theology Conference]
1:30 – 3:00pm — Mark Husbands and John Franke, The Trinity as Social?
3:30 – 5:00pm — Robert Lang’at and Keith Johnson, The Trinity and Mission
7:30 – 8:30pm — Kevin Vanhoozer, Keynote Address #2

Stay tuned to JakeBouma.com this week for updates from the conferences. Any fellow bloggers going to be at either of these conferences? Leave a comment and let me know; I’d love to meet up.