Postkiwi

Tony Jones, the national coordinator of Emergent Village in the USA, is visiting Queensland in October in conjunction with his sessions at Black Stump in NSW.

Tony has a background in youth ministry, Christian spirituality, postmodernism and the emerging church and will be picking up some of these themes. Tony’s approach will be focused on conversation rather than lecturing. See more on his blog, tonyj.net.

See my posts on Tony’s most recent book, The New Christians, his On The Road video series, and on Left/Right polarisation in the USA church.

Here’s the program in its basic form. I’ll add details regarding times and places as they are finalized in the next week or so.

Wednesday October 1

• Lunch & afternoon conversation, Sunshine Coast
  (contact Steve Turner, 0412 459 429)
• Dinner & evening conversation, Brisbane
  (contact me 0439 828 718)

Thursday October 2

• Dinner & evening conversation, Gold Coast
  (contact me 0439 828 718)

Friday October 3

• Lunch & afternoon conversation with youth leaders, Brisbane
  Focus on spiritual practices and youth ministry
  (contact Michael Jeffrey, 0417 644 642)

Books by Tony Jones

• Postmodern Youth Ministry (Youth Specialties/Zondervan, 2001)
• Soul Shaper (Youth Specialties/Zondervan, 2003)
• Read, Think, Pray, Live (NavPress, 2003)
• Pray (NavPress, 2003)
• The Sacred Way (Zondervan, 2005)
• Divine Intervention: Encountering God Through the Ancient Practice of Lectio Divina (Th1nk Books, 2006)
• Introduction to The Most Difficult Journey You’ll Ever Make: The Pilgrim’s Progress: a Modernized Christian Classic (Paraclete Press, 2006)
• Introduction to You Converted Me: The Confessions of St. Augustine (Paraclete Press, 2006)
• Introduction and commentary on Brother Lawrence Practicing the Presence of God (Paraclete Press, 2007)
• Co-editor of An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (Baker Books, 2007)
• The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier (Jossey Bass, 2008)