Free Public Lecture Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Another Brick in the Wall
Just Another Brick In the Wall: Why We Don't Join Institutions Anymore     Will Our Church Have Children? Emergent Possibilities
Keynote Speaker Bob Sweetman Historian of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies		Daddy's flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory Snapshot in the family album Daddy what else did you leave for me? Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!? All in all it was just a brick in the wall. All in all it was all just bricks in the wall. –Pink Floyd
7:00 pm Wednesday, March 12, 2008 The King's University College Atrium Edmonton
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7:00 pm • Talk #1

Just Another Brick In the Wall: Why We Don't Join Institutions Anymore.

The world changes at a dizzying rate. Bob Sweetman tells a story about the role our social institutions—church, home, school, governments—played in that change. Those institutions were forged to build a better world. They were designed to help people with different visions share the same political, economic and religious landscape. Over the past generation, however, our society has lost much of its faith in these institutions, leaving them ill-suited to meet the challenges of our new era. Finally, Bob examines how these institutions might adapt to address these challenges.

8:00 pm • Refreshments

8:15 pm • Talk #2

Will Our Church Have Children? Emergent Possibilities

The difficulties faced by all institutions have in today's society also bedevil the church. The old issues—doctrinal purity, converting unbelievers, or beating back evil secular humanists—don't have much traction today. Many dismiss the church as too authoritarian, inauthentic, irrelevant and scandal prone. Bob Sweetman suggests that a large part of the problem is that the church is organized to fight yesterday's battles. He also suggests that the emergent church movement offers some valuable clues for what the church could look like beyond yesterday's battles and today's yawns.

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