Brian D. McLaren is founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church, an innovative, nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region. He is the author of several books including A Generous Orthodoxy, A New Kind of Christian, and The Secret Message of Jesus.








Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope
(Critical Concerns Course)
Monday, Febuary 9 2009, 6:00pm-9:00pm, Pacific Salon 3
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 8:30am-11:30am, Pacific Salon 3

Christian Faith as Way of Life
Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Garden Salon 1
Christianity has tended to present itself as a system of belief or as an institution of society. What would it mean to rediscover the way of Jesus as a way of life - radical, daily, contemplative, active, and communal? How would this way of life be learned through practices? What role would ancient practices have in this way of life? What would the church look like if it formed itself around this mission of spiritual formation for global transformation?

Jesus and Empire Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 1:30pm-3:00pm,Golden Pacific Ballroom 
Including Shane Claiborne, Don Golden, Scot McKnight, and Efrem Smith