2007 Craven Wilson Evangelism Lecture

Conversations with Brian McLaren: What does emerging have to do with the rest of the church?

 The 2007 Craven Wilson Lecture, Conversations with Brian McLaren, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Nov. 12, 2007, in the Umphrey Lee Center Ballroom, 3300 Dyer Street, on the SMU campus.

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers and activists. A frequent guest on television, radio and mews media programs, his books include More Ready Than You Realize: Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix (2002), A is for Abductive (coauthored with Dr. Leonard Sweet, Zondervan, 2002), Adventures in Missing the Point (coauthored with Dr. Anthony Campolo, Emergent/YS, 2003), A Generous Orthodoxy (Emergent/YS/Zondervan), and The Secret Message of Jesus (W, April 2006).

McLaren is on the international steering team and board of directors for emergent, a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders. He is also active in global networking among emerging leaders (amahoro.info).

The Craven Wilson Lecture Series is dedicated to making available to students and churches in North Texas, nationally recognized leaders in the ministry of evangelism. The lecture is made possible through an endowed gift from the late Evie Jo Wilson of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Houston. Wilson was long noted for her support of higher education and the church. The 2007 lecture is sponsored by The Church in Emerging Culture, a project of the Center for the Advanced Study and practice of Evangelism.

Pre-registration is required, with a registration fee of $45. (Reduced fee for currently enrolled students.) The fee includes CEUs and lunch.

Register on-line.                      Download brochure. (PDF format)

Campus Map   Off-campus visitors must park in Moody Garage (#96 on the campus map). The event will be held in Umphrey Lee (building #9 on the campus map).