Cornerstone Festival Line-Up Announced!

As many of you know, bluechristian (a.k.a. Jon Trott) is part of the community Jesus People USA, in turn the sponsor of Cornerstone Festival. This year's line-up of outstanding speakers can be found on the official CornerstoneXchange Seminar program page. Cornerstone Festival, by the way, has been Christianity's premier arts festival for nearly three decades, and we're just getting started.

A few of the speakers include:

Miroslav Volf on Identity, Otherness & Reconciliation
Shane Claiborne (& the "Jesus for President" Tour)
William Cavanaugh on "The Theopolitical Imagination"
Michael Spencer (aka Internet Monk)
Anthony Smith (aka Postmodern Negro)
Karen Sloan (Flirting With Monasticism)
Andy Whitman (Paste magazine) on Music
Crystal Downing (How Postmodernism Serves [My] Faith) and (A Good War is Hard to Find)
Gordon Melton on "Witch-Hunters & Cult-Busters"

And then there's Mimi Haddad, who happens to be the President of Christians for Biblical Equality as well as a dear friend to my wife Carol and I, offering "Mama Don't Preach."

There will be some dozen or two other speakers (a few listed below in the tags, many more on the afore-linked pages) and the usual mass of bands and musical troubadors of every style and substance artistically known to humanity (they may or may not have the kazoo artist back this year). Carol and I sure hope to see you at Cornerstone Festival this year!

For more on the music, the Flickerings 2008 film venue, and so much more, see the main Cornerstone Festival site.


tag: Cornerstone Festival, Cornerstone Festival 2008, Christians for Biblical Equality, feminism, Jesus for President, Jesus People USA, Cornerstone Seminars, Miroslav Volf, Shane Claiborne. William Cavanaugh, Michael Spencer, Anthony Smith, Karen Sloan, Andy Whitman, Crystal Downing, Gordon Melton, Mimi Haddad, Bill Ellis, Christine Sneeringer, Jonathan Case,

Imaginarium at Cornerstone Festival 2007

Really, I'm just posting this because of the awesome Undead Elvis artwork. But you might want to check out the program as well as have your mind blown by the home page. 'Nuff said.

The Talking Stage? Cstone Fest's Newest, uh, Attraction

Don't know if you've perused the Festival line-up of speakers and topics yet. If not, check CstoneXchange blog for the newest listings (along the right edge of the first page in short form, or for a longer and more thorough treatment, the Seminars page). I must say, even though I've been point man on the past few years' speaker line-ups, Mike "Herky" Hertenstein's efforts this year are truly exciting. And don't forget Flickerings, the Imaginarium, the CBE Tent (where this blue Christian will be speaking on "Manly Men & Mutuality" and "Mutuality in Bed"!) and all the other great Cstone venues. Sure, there's music there also, but we all knew that.

Anyway, there's also another new attraction you can link to from CstoneXchange, or here, called the Cornerstone Festival Talking Stage. Got the conversational yen, the gift of gab, the verbose virus? You'll want to check this out. And I hope all my myriad readers (in the millions, of course) will look me up at the fest and say "Hey, I really dig Blue Christian!" or perhaps "You goddess-worshipping commie feminazi!" If you call me the latter, you have to buy me a cup of coffee first.