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SpeakersDiana Butler Bass | Marcus Borg | Brian D. McLaren Diana Butler Bass
Now a senior fellow at the Cathedral College of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., from 2002 to 2006 she was the project director of a national Lilly Endowment-funded study of mainline Protestant vitality. Although her work specializes in mainstream and liberal Protestantism, she also serves as a member of the national board of directors for Emergent Village and as an advisory board member of Synagogue 3000, a Jewish renewal organization. She is part of Sojourners' Progressive Religious Communicators Group and is a regular contributor to the God's Politics blog. She has taught at Westmont College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Macalester College, Rhodes College, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. She has taught church history, American religious history, history of Christian thought, religion and politics, and congregational studies. From 1995 to 2000 she wrote a weekly column on American religion for The New York Times Syndicate. She has written widely in the religious press, including Sojourners, Christian Century, Clergy Journal, and Congregations. She has appeared on PBS, Fox News, and NPR. She is a member of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. Marcus Borg
Described by The New York Times as "a leading figure in his generation of Jesus scholars," he has appeared on NBC's Today Show and Dateline, PBS's Newshour, ABC's Evening News and Prime Time with Peter Jennings, NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and several National Geographic programs. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar, he has been national chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and co-chair of its International New Testament Program Committee, and is past president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars and a regular columnist for Beliefnet. His work has been translated into nine languages: German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. His doctorate is from Oxford University, and he has lectured widely overseas (England, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Israel, and South Africa) and in North America, including the Chautauqua and Smithsonian institutions. Brian D. McLaren
Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists. He is a frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs. He has appeared on many broadcasts, including Larry King Live, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, and Nightline. His work has also been covered in Time magazine (where he was listed as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals), Christianity Today, Christian Century, The Washington Post, and many other print media. Brian has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors since the mid-1980s, and has assisted in the development of several new churches. He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer at seminaries and denominational gatherings, nationally and internationally. His public speaking covers a broad range of topics, including postmodern thought and culture, Biblical studies, evangelism, leadership, global mission, spiritual formation, worship, pastoral survival and burnout, interreligious dialogue, ecology, and social justice. McLaren's books include: The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix (1998, rev. ed. 2000); Finding Faith (1999); A New Kind of Christian (2001); More Ready Than You Realize: Evangelism as Dance in the Postmodern Matrix (2002); A Is for Abductive (with Leonard Sweet; 2002); Adventures in Missing the Point (with Anthony Campolo; 2003); The Story We Find Ourselves In (2003); A Generous Orthodoxy (2004); The Last Word and the Word After That (2005); and The Secret Message of Jesus (2006). He is one of five co-authors of Church in the Emerging Culture (2003).
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Diana Butler Bass is an expert in American religion who works as an author,
speaker, and independent scholar. She holds a PhD in religious studies from
Duke University and is the author of six books on American religious practice,
including Christianity for the Rest of Us (HarperSan Francisco, 2006), which was named one of the best religion books of the year by
Publishers Weekly and Christian Century and won the Book of the Year Award
from the Academy of Parish Clergy; and The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old
Church (Alban Institute, 2004), which has been lauded as one of the most important
books on mainline Protestantism in the last two decades. She is at work on two
more books: Pilgrimage, part of the "Seven Ancient Practices" series (W Books, 2008); and
Episcopalians in America (Columbia University Press,
2008).
Marcus J. Borg holds the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture in the
Philosophy Department at Oregon State University. Internationally known in both
academic and church circles as a biblical and Jesus scholar, he is the author of
16 books, including Jesus: A New Vision (1987) and the best-seller
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (1994); The God We Never Knew
(1997); The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (1999); Reading the Bible
Again for the First Time (2001) and The Heart of Christianity
(2003), both best-sellers. His newest books are Jesus: Uncovering the Life,
Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary (2006); and two books
co-authored with John Dominic Crossan: The Last Week (2006) and The
First Christmas (2007). 
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