A very special opportunity through a partnership with Redeemer Church and New City Resources is coming to Knoxville in just a few weeks—an intensive weekend with James K. Smith, February 3-5, 2012.

Dr. Smith is associate professor of Philosophy at Calvin College and a critically acclaimed author: Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism (Baker Academic, 2006), Introducing Radical Orthodoxy (Baker Academic, 2004), Desiring the Kingdom (Baker Academic, 2009), Thinking in Tongues (Eerdmans, 2010).

Perhaps what has captured my imagination most about Smith’s thinking is his Christian vision for the imagination. As with the heart, Smith sees in the imagination the essential well-spring from which our all our thoughts and actions are drawn.

While sounding rather deep, this is also radically practical. We are what we love. We love what we desire. We do what we desire. As God’s image-bearing creatures what we do reflects in no uncertain terms what we truly desire.

Since our imagination feeds our desires, we are quite literally nourishing or impoverishing ourselves each and everyday upon the basis of how well the stirrings of our hearts serve us. If our imaginations enjoy the transforming presence of God’s Spirit then we live fruitfully as new creatures in Christ from the inside out—and from a heart that knows what it means to grow soft toward God. And if our imaginations do not enjoy the transforming presence of God’s Spirit then…I’ll let you reflect on what that looks and feels like for yourself.

Please come join us as we host Dr. Smith in an effort to explore what it looks like to do and desire the kingdom from the inside out. We’ve already got a great group committed to participate in the learning community component of the weekend, and there is room for more.

As with all our offerings, if you wish to participate but cannot cover the full amount, please offer what you can—and come join us. Thanks for your time. We hope to hear from you soon.

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New City Resources is excited to announce the upcoming course: Faithful Medicine: Bioethics and Christian Thought. Facilitated by Kenny Woodhull, this course features Jennie McLaurin and will examine the secularity of modern medicine, the structures of modern bioethical frameworks, and the theological arguments used by Christians to support bioethical positions.

• $150/person w/o CME credit
• $250/person w/ CME credit

For more details, contact Kenny Woodhull – 865-803-9758 or kennywoodhull@comcast.net

Thursdays, 7-9pm (April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20, May 27)

Apostles Anglican Church
1540 Robinson Road
Knoxville, TN 37923

There is no cost to attend.
Call Kenny Woodhull for pre-meeting reading.
865.803.9758

Christians in every walk of life face challenges every day at work.  Some of these challenges relate to embodying a worldview in a world that views things different from a faith-based, biblical perspective–sometimes radically so, other times in a more nuanced way.

These challenges are nowhere more evident than in the efforts by God’s people to integrate the demands and opportunities brought about by modern Science with a thorough-going biblical worldview.  Our research scientists and health care practitioners live this tension every day.

In their world, critical and sometimes life-changing decisions must be made on the spot, and some of these decisions do not always allow for adequate reflection—or even serious dialogue with other thoughtful Christians.

In an effort to address this need for reflection and ongoing dialogue—as well as providing a follow up to our October 09 discussion on Bioethics and the Practice of Faithful Medicine—New City is prepared to host a quarterly gathering in 2010.

Our hope here is to cultivate a learning community of thoughtful Christians who will listen well to one another and equip each other for the art and science of living faithfully as God’s missional witnesses in the world.  To help us get there, we will share articles in advance, swap essays and ruminations, and lovingly push one another to clear thinking and courageous living.

It’s not quite the Fellowship of The Ring, but here is an opportunity to carve out some time and create a little space in which we might rather seriously “spur one another on,” as the writer of Hebrews says, “toward love and good deeds” within the crucible, that is, the cross-shaped reality of our vocational callings.

If you are interested in participating, please reply here and I’ll forward you an initial reading with some prompting questions for our first meeting in January—now scheduled for Monday night January 25, 7-9pm, at Lauren Clevenger’s house (716 Noragate Drive, Knoxville 37919).   Coffee and dessert will be served.  RSVP.

Faithful Medicine: Bioethics and Christian Thought

What: This course will examine the secularity of modern medicine, the structures of modern bioethical frameworks, and the theological arguments used by Christians to support bioethical positions.

When: October 2 – 3, 2009

• Friday, October 2, 2009, 4:00pm – 8:30pm (with dinner)
• Saturday, October 3, 2009, 8:30am – 3:30pm (with lunch)

Who:
Jennie McLaurin
Associate Professor of Bioethics and Dean of Students
Regent College
Vancouver, Canada

Where:
3710 Riverbrook Drive
Louisville, TN 37777

This seminar will be facilitated by Kenny Woodhull, New City Resources. For registration fee, further information and pre-session preparation, please contact:

Kenny Woodhull
865.803.9758
kennywoodhull@comcast.net

Cost:

• $200/person (w/o CME credit)
• $250/person (w/ CME credit)
• $350/couple (no CME credit)

Webs, Calls, Texts, and Tones: Practicing the Presence of God in a Wireless World

Jennie McLaurin, Medical Doctor and Associate Professor of Bioethics and Dean of Students at Regent College, will be our guide as we explore what it is to practice the presence of God in an ever increasing world of ubiquitous communication. Details and registration information for this event are as follows:

Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:00pm – 8:30pm (with dinner)
Saturday, January 31, 2009, 8:30am – 3:30pm (with lunch)

Speaker:
Jennie McLaurin, MD
Associate Professor of Bioethics and Dean of Students, Regent College
Vancouver, Canada

BS (Salem), MD (Wake Forest), MPH (North Carolina – Chapel Hill), MCS (Regent College)

Facilitator:
Kenny Woodhull
New City Resources 

For registration fee, further information and pre-session preparation, please contact:

Kenny Woodhull 865.803.9758
kennywoodhull@comcast.net

Venue:
3710 Riverbrook Drive
Louisville, TN 37777

Cost:
$100/person (meals included)

Pre-registration deadline January 15. 

Who:

Principal Speaker :
Paul Stevens
Professor Emeritus, Marketplace Theology
Regent College, Vancouver, Canada

Local contributions and case studies:
Lauren Clevenger
Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care Pediatrics, Knoxville

Randy Pardue
Family Physician, Knoxville

Russell Simmons
Circuit Judge, Kingston, TN

Facilitator:
Kenny Woodhull
New City Resources

Where:

3710 Riverbrook Drive, Louisville, TN 37777

When:

Friday 4:00pm – 8:30pm (with dinner)
Saturday 8:30am – 3:30pm (with lunch)

Cost:

$100

Contact:

Kenny Woodhull
865.803.9758
kennywoodhull@comcast.net
P.O. Box 397, Knoxville, TN 37901