the hard times ec cohort

Some guys came up from Charlotte to the DC area to attend one of the The Worship in the Spirit of Justice events on Darfur in the District tomorrow and we met up today at the Hard Times Cafe in College Park (Suburban MD).



In attendance were (from left to right):

• Tony Sheng
• Beth Shields
• Anthony Smith
• DJ Chuang
• Rod Garvin
• me
  
• Steve Knight

Here's a better pic of Anthony













So many memes - here are some that were addressed:

• beth began to bring us up to speed on Jeffrey Sach's new book The End of Poverty. (See a helpful excerpt here). we tried to get everyone to pitch in to cough up $340,000 to feed one village for a year but no takers (yet).
  
• emergent
• the emerging church
• should the emergent change its name?
• africa
  
• emergent's appointing a national coordinator
  
• ethnocentricity, both western/n.american, ecclesiological, theological, and racial
• Stanley Hauerwas
• The Billy Graham Association
  
• one.org
• how the declining cost of information changes society and shakes up denominational structures
• cornel west
• franklin graham
• billy graham
• billy graham's last crusade
  
• the sad state of faithmaps.org but the hopeful plans for its future envigoration
  
• WEB Dubois
• samaritans purse
• rick warren
• the sad state of evangelical worship music
• Martin Luther King
• Grace Community Church
• Cedar Ridge Community Church
• Warehouse 242
• Bill Hybels
• Willow Creek Community Church
  

i'm sure i'm missing some significant topics but this hits some of the highlights. It was a great time.