We invite you to join us March 10-12, 2010 in Claremont, Calif.,
for a first-of-its-kind national conference, “Theology After
Google.”
Why “theology after Google”?
Progressive Christian theologians have some vitally important
things to say, things that both the church and society desperately
need to hear. The trouble is, we tend to deliver our message using
technologies that date back to Gutenberg: books, academic articles,
sermons, and so forth. We aren't making effective use of the new
technologies, social media, and social networking. When it comes to
effective communication of message, the Religious Right is running
circles around us. Hence the urgent need for a conference to
empower pastors, laypeople, and the up-and-coming theologians of
the next generation to do “theology after Google,” theology for a
Google-shaped world.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, we’ve been
able to assemble a stellar team of cultural creatives and experts
in the new modes of communication. We are also inviting a selection
of senior theologians, and well as some of the younger theologians
(call them “theobloggers”) whose use of the new media (blogging,
podcasts, YouTube posts) is already earning them large followings
and high levels of influence. For two and a half days, in workshops
and in hands-on sessions, in lectures and over drinks, these
leading figures will be at your disposal to teach you everything
they know.
Schedule:
"Theology After Google" (TAG) will kick off with drinks and dinner
on Wednesday, March 10, and will end with a closing celebration on
Friday evening, March 12th.