Yesterday at #WildGoose2018 was incredible:
1) I shared on the main stage about the radical practice of gratitude -- and how if we read the Easter story through the lens of gratefulness, Maundy Thursday -- not Good Friday -- becomes the most significant event of justice and eschatology.
2) Had lunch with @RevJacquiLewis and our two wonderful spouses -- a true table of trusted friends.
Met up with the ever-creative @annaclaire713, a Methodist pastor from Alabama whose joy, energy, and justice-imagination never ceases to inspire me.
Was part of a #WildGoose2018 "Living Room" event with @brianmclaren, Randall Balmer, and @Frank_Schaeffer that might well go down in Goose history for its taking us all on a journey that was revelatory and profoundly moving.
Good book signing. Saw friends. Almost stung by a bee. Yeah. #WildGoose2018 has bugs. 😉
Hung out @pagitt's tent to tape a @HomebrewedXnty pod w/@brianmclaren hosted by @trippfuller. We talked everything from the Cappadocian theologians to Scottish peasants, land removal & finding a life-giving justice narrative. And yes, Trump, too. Don't miss it when it comes out!
Along #WildGoose2018 pathways, I had a lovely and short chat with @KaitlinCurtice, who is such a good human and talented young writer.
Gave @johnpavlovitz a hug.
(And he gave me the proofs of his upcoming book, "Hope and Other Superpowers")
Got a hug from @xinmetoo, who had come directly from the Episcopal General Convention.
Met @JenHatmaker for the first time -- she is warm, smart, funny, and kind. I hope it won't be our last meeting.
Saw so many friends and good colleagues that I can't even keep track.
And we (Richard and I) ended the day having dinner with Barbara Brown Taylor, her husband Ed, and @pastormitchell. What a table of story-telling!
And those are the sorts of things that happen at #WildGoose2018 -- the spirit blows and she brings unexpected gifts -- all day, everyday.
Multiply my little thread by 4500 (the number of people here), and you pretty much get the pic of #WildGoose2018 -- the spirit moving in 10s of 1000s of surprising, life-affirming, hopeful ways.
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