A Generous Orthodoxy and Our next meeting

We had a great meeting Wednesday night, getting to know some new friends and chatting about whatever was on our minds.

But I think it’s time to get serious now. No more fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants meetings. Let’s get down to business.

Or something like that. Anyways…

We’re going to start reading a book together! And the one we decided on is a (somewhat) oldie but a goodie:

Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy

A few of us have read it already, a few of us haven’t, but either way I think the discussions that we’ll have surrounding the topics brought up in this excellent book will be beneficial to everyone involved.

I’ll follow up with more details on how much we should have read by next meeting, but the first chapter is probably a good place to start. And if you’d like to buy it through Amazon (the link above) and save a couple bucks on shipping, let me know, because I can get free shipping.

And speaking of the next meeting, I’m going to do something unprecedented and announce the date of the next meeting way ahead of time!!! Let’s see if that works for us, and we can always go back to the democratic method next time if it seems to work better.

Next Cohort meeting – #5

Date: Wednesday, 3/12
Time: 8pm-11pm
Location: Starbucks in Latham on Route 2 ( 549 Troy Schenectady Rd Latham, NY )
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=549+Troy+Schenectady+Rd%2C
Bring: A Generous Orthodoxy

Cohort Meeting #4 finalized – Wednesday 2/20

Based on the responses I’ve gotten, it seems that Wednesday, 2/20 is the day.

Here’s the details:

Cohort Meet #4
Date: Wednesday, 2/20
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm-ish
Location: Starbucks in Latham on Route 2 ( 549 Troy Schenectady Rd Latham, NY )

I’ll be posting this info in Facebook, and emailing it as well, so hopefully no one will miss it.

Looking forward to it!!!

See you all next week.

———-

UPDATE: Dave had a great idea for this meeting, check it out:

At our last meeting we all seemed to be discussing, for at least part of the time,what emerging/emergent authors are shaping our understanding of this entire conversation. If you have a book you are currently reading that you would like to bring along and share a few thoughts that you’ve gleaned from that book, it will help to guide our discussion. If you have a book in mind, post it here. Maybe we’re all reading the same books and can hone in on one or two that we all have in common and use them to guide us into a clearer idea of what it means to be emerging/emergent

Cohort Meeting #4 – try #2

It seems that I’m still having trouble communicating with all of you… In my attempts to include people who aren’t always on Facebook, and by communicating over email and through the blog, I ended up forgetting to write about what was going on on Facebook!!! Sorry.

Anyways, we didn’t meet this week in case you didn’t know. And I’d like to do it this coming week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday, 2/19 or 2/20, at 8pm at Starbucks in Latham.

Please either respond here, check your Facebook (because you should have a message from me) or check your email Inbox cause I’m going to send an email through that as well.

phew… OK, I think that’s it.

Thanks!!! looking forward to getting together again!

-Curtis

Pick a date – cohort meeting #4

Let’s get together again!!!

I’m thinking that an every-3-weeks schedule for these cohort meetings is an OK place to start. We can do it more or less as people desire. So, I’d like to plan one for this coming week.

Leave a comment here with your thoughts on what day works for you, and we’ll go with whatever one seems to work for the most people.
Date: Monday-Friday, 2/11-15

Time: 8pm-11pm (roughly)

Place:

we have some choices, so voice your opinion:

Latham 76 Diner
722 New Loudon Rd.
Latham, NY

or

Starbucks in Latham near the circle

or

Suggest a new place that you like!

First meet for ‘08

So, let’s decide on a day to get together to kick off the new year. I’m thinking sometime next week?

Monday-Friday (1/21-1/25) @ 8pm
Starbucks in Latham on Route 2 by the Circle

What day works for people?

We’ve been having some great discussions. There’s only been 3 of us so far, and it’s been fine, but obviously the more the merrier!

(You can also weigh in through Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=4577004743&topic=3812)

Meet #2 – Let’s pick a date

(This is also posted on the discussion board of the Facebook Group; leave a note here or there, whichever floats your boat!)

We had a great time at our first meet, granted there were only 3 of us, but it was still a good time of getting to know each other and just general conversation.

So, what say we try again and see if we can get some more people?

Dates:
Monday 12/17
Tuesday 12/18
Wednesday 12/19
Thursday 12/20
Friday 12/21

Time:
8:00 PM

Place:
Starbucks in Latham on Route 2:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=starbucks&near=Latham,+NY&fb=1&view=text&cd=2&hl=en&latlng=42750200,-73764156,6817905571319324753&ei=O9hOR7b-I4qejgH6lqiSAQ&sig2=JeFqQeGHBXNQTa7qwOOL2w

First Meet – Let’s pick a date!

(This is also posted on the Message Board for the Facebook group.  Leave a response here or there.)

OK, let’s figure out what date works for the most people. I’d LOVE to be able to do this next week, because I know that, at least for me, I’ve been waiting forever for there to be some interest in this thing, so I don’t want to wait any longer

It seems like weeknights will probably be the best, as there’s been at least one person that’s expressed that weekends might not be good.

Dates:
Monday 12/3
Tuesday 12/4
Wednesday 12/5
Thursday 12/6
Friday 12/7

Time:
8:00 PM – ???

Place:
I figured that Latham was a fairly central location to a lot of towns, so my initial plan was to meet at the Panera @ Latham Farms:
http://maps.google.com/?sourceid=navclient&q=601%20Troy%20Schenectady%20Road,Latham,NY%2012110
But there’s also a Starbucks right down the street from that as well, if that’s more up people’s alley.

So, please respond to this with the dates that work for you, and we’ll do it on the day that ends up working for the most people.

Looking forward to it!

Meet?

I’d love to setup a meeting sometime soon. There’s been some (marginal) interest in this thing, it seems mostly through the Facebook Group, so I was curious if anyone is interested in trying to get together sometime?

My hope in kicking off this Cohort was (at the very least) to have a “book club”-like meeting, centered around discussing a book that’s relevant to emerging / Emergent / postmodern / post-whatever-else-you-can-think-of… A book that I’ve always wanted to discuss, but until now had no willing parties, is Brian McLaren’s “A Generous Orthodoxy“. I think the style of this book would lend itself really well to group discussion, and on top of that there’s A LOT that’s worth discussing.

What do you think?  What days/times are good for people?  Weeknight?  Weekend?

Capital District cohort on Facebook

Now there’s a another way to participate in the conversation: on Facebook!

Check it out and/or join the group here.

And if you haven’t joined Facebook yet, what are you waiting for? All the cool kids are doing it… Join it now!!!

Kick it off…

Kicking this thing off.  Just wanted to get the site up and running, nothing really to write about yet though…  If anyone stumbles on this though, leave a comment!

later