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Center for Church Innovation, San Francisco, CA (2026)

06/17/2022

ICYMI: Did you know we've launched a new podcast as part of our newest initiative? Follow along at Vital + Thriving Congregations and find our podcast wherever you listen to podcasts (https://vital-and-thriving.captivate.fm/listen)! The newest episode features the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, who talks about the Episcopal Church’s history around race, justice, and invitation with devastating clarity, courageous honesty, and prophetic hope. Listen to this timely and timeless conversation, full of a fierce and grounded trust in God’s movements in our midst.

01/18/2022

🎉Starts TOMORROW!🎉 We hope you can join us for the virtual Building Beloved Community Conference as we explore the question, “What does building beloved community look like?” The virtual sessions will feature critical perspectives from some of our favorite leading voices for the task of building beloved community amidst ongoing conflict and division, including:
✨Wed, 1/19, 2pm PT: Bishop Marc Andrus will be looking at the question: “How can friendships across boundaries of faith and culture strengthen us for the work of building beloved community?”
✨Wed, 1/19, 4pm PT: The Very Rev. Michael Battle will be looking at the question: “How can the African spiritual principle of ‘Ubuntu’ contribute to the building of beloved community?”
✨Thurs, 1/20, 2pm PT: Julie Rodgers will be in conversation about her book "Outlove: A Q***r Christian Survival Story" and the film PRAY AWAY.
✨Thurs, 1/20, 4pm PT: Dr. Kristin Du Mez will be looking at the question: “What would it look like to leave behind the militant masculinity and patriarchy so pervasive in American Christianity?”
Join us for conversation, learning, and leaning into the work before us. LINK IN BIO for more details and registration info.
Full conference tickets include all sessions (including both keynotes!). Can’t make it to the whole conference? Attend one (or both) of the keynote sessions with a keynote-only ticket. All sessions will be recorded and shared with registered attendees after the event.

01/11/2022

ICYMI: The Building Beloved Community Conference is now fully online! We hope you can join us next week as we explore the question, “What does building beloved community look like?” The virtual sessions will feature critical perspectives from some of our favorite leading voices for the task of building beloved community amidst ongoing conflict and division. Join us for conversation, learning, and leaning into the work before us. LINK IN BIO for more details and registration info.
Full conference tickets include all sessions (including both keynotes!). Can’t make it to the whole conference? Attend one (or both) of the keynote sessions with a keynote-only ticket.

01/05/2022

The conference is now 📣FULLY ONLINE📣! We hope you can join us in two weeks at the Building Beloved Community Conference, happening January 19-20, as we explore the question, “What does building beloved community look like?” The virtual sessions will feature critical perspectives from some of our favorite leading voices for the task of building beloved community amidst ongoing conflict and division. We hope you will join us for conversation, learning, and leaning into the work before us. LINK IN BIO for more details and registration info.
Full conference tickets include all sessions (including both keynotes!). Can’t make it to the whole conference? Attend one (or both) of the keynote sessions with a keynote-only ticket.

12/19/2021

We are ONE MONTH away from the Building Beloved Community Conference! Join us January 19-20 in San Francisco as we explore the question, “What does building beloved community look like?” This two-day conference will feature critical perspectives from some of our favorite leading voices for the task of building beloved community amidst ongoing conflict and division. We hope you will join us for conversation, learning, and leaning into the work before us. LINK IN BIO for more details and registration info.
Full conference tickets include all sessions (including both keynotes!), dinner on Wed. and Thurs., and breakfast on Thurs. Can’t make it to the whole conference? Attend one (or both) of the keynote sessions with a keynote-only ticket (just $10 per session if purchased in advance!). Proof of vaccination required.

12/10/2021

Join us January 19-20 in San Francisco for the Building Beloved Community Conference! Get your tickets by midnight PT on December 15 to take advantage of the early bird discount (save 20%!). Full conference tickets include all sessions (including both keynotes!), dinner on Wed. and Thurs., and breakfast on Thurs. Can’t make it to the whole conference? Attend one (or both) of the keynote sessions with a keynote-only ticket (just $10 per session if purchased in advance!).
This two-day conference will feature critical perspectives from some of our favorite leading voices for the task of building beloved community amidst ongoing conflict and division. We hope you will join us for conversation, learning, and leaning into the work before us. LINK IN BIO for more details and registration info.

12/07/2021

Meet Devin Singh, one of the speakers for the Building Beloved Community Conference! As Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, Devin Singh, PhD, teaches courses in religion in the West, philosophy of religion, ethics, organizational dynamics, and the connections among religion, economics, and politics. He is the author of “Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West,” which examines the influential connections between Christianity and economics, and uncovers roots to money’s power today. His work has been nationally and internationally recognized, and has appeared in periodicals such as Time, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and Patheos, and journals such as Harvard Theological Review, Political Theology, Journal of Religious Ethics, and Telos. Devin is currently at work on a second book, for Harvard University Press, on religion and debt. He will be sharing about Christianity and debt: what we owe in the Beloved Community.
Come learn from Dr. Devin Singh at the Building Beloved Community Conference (Jan 19-20, 2022). Tickets are now on sale! Early bird pricing (save 20%) for the conference ends 12/15; excludes keynote-only tickets. Link in bio!

11/30/2021

Meet Julie Rodgers, one of the speakers for the Building Beloved Community Conference! Julie is the author of “Outlove: A Q***r Christian Survival Story.” She played a significant role in shutting down Exodus International, the largest conversion therapy organization in the world, and she was the first openly gay person hired by an evangelical Christian college. She is featured in PRAY AWAY (streaming now on Netflix!), a documentary about the movement to pray the gay away, and her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Time. Through her writing and speaking, Julie moves people to reimagine belonging with her q***r reflections on faith, public life, and chosen family. She will be sharing about her book and the documentary that she was a part of.
Come learn from Julie at the Building Beloved Community Conference (Jan 19-20, 2022). Tickets are now on sale! Early bird pricing (save 20%) for the conference ends 12/15; excludes keynote-only tickets. Link in bio!

11/23/2021

Meet D.L. Mayfield, one of the speakers for the Building Beloved Community Conference! D.L. lives and writes in the outskirts of Portland, OR, with her husband and two children. Her first book of essays, “Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith” was released by HarperOne in 2016. Her second book, “The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power” was released in May 2020. Her next book, about Dorothy Day, is forthcoming in 2022. Her writing has appeared in a variety of places, including McSweeney’s, Christianity Today, Sojourners, the Washington Post, Image Journal, The Christian Century, and many more. Since 2008, she has taught English to speakers of other languages, specializing in working with non-literate communities. She is trying very hard to be a good neighbor in an unjust and inequitable world. She will be sharing about Dorothy Day and the Beloved Community.
Come learn from D.L. at the Building Beloved Community Conference (Jan 19-20, 2022). Tickets are now on sale! Early bird pricing (save 20%) for the conference ends 12/15; excludes keynote-only tickets. Link in bio!

11/16/2021

Meet Marc Andrus, one of the speakers for the Building Beloved Community Conference! The Rt. Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus is the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California. He was installed as bishop in 2006 — a position of oversight for a diocese comprised of 24,000 communicants in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties, and the cities of Los Altos and part of Palo Alto. Prior to his election as Bishop of California, Andrus served as Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. His leadership has focused on key issues related to peace and justice, including immigration reform, civil rights for LBGTQ+ persons, health care, and climate change. His new book, “Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.”, tells the never-before-told story of the transforming friendship between two of the most well-known peace icons of the twentieth century. He will be looking at the big question: “How can friendships across boundaries of faith and culture strengthen us for the work of building beloved community?”
Come learn from Bishop Marc Andrus at the Building Beloved Community Conference (Jan 19-20, 2022). Tickets are now on sale! Early bird pricing (save 20%) for the conference ends 12/15; excludes keynote-only tickets. Link in bio!

11/08/2021

Meet Kristin Du Mez, one of the keynote speakers for the Building Beloved Community Conference! Author of the New York Times bestseller “Jesus and John Wayne”, Kristin Du Mez, PhD, is a writer, speaker, and scholar who explores the intersection of religion, gender, and politics. An academic by training, Du Mez holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Notre Dame, but she writes and speaks for popular audiences in an entertaining style that is equal parts winsome and hard-hitting. Du Mez teaches at Calvin University and is also the author of “A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism”. She will be looking at the big question: “What would it look like to leave behind the militant masculinity and patriarchy so pervasive in American Christianity?”
Come learn from Dr. Kristin Du Mez at the Building Beloved Community Conference (Jan 19-20, 2022), or join us just for her keynote session on Thursday, Jan 20 at 7pm. Tickets are now on sale! Early bird pricing (save 20%) for the conference ends 12/15; excludes keynote-only tickets. Link in bio!

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