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Is it really only 70 days \u2019till the Wild Goose Festival<\/a>? <\/strong>In the midst of all our planning, it\u2019s been challenging to find the time to blog about it!\u00a0 We\u2019ve been making good progress, though, and we\u2019re committed to posting frequently, beginning this week. And we\u2019re happy to announce Patheos<\/a> as our new blogging home!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve asked a few friends of Wild Goose to write short posts responding to two simple questions; please feel free to comment below with your own responses.\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n

What do you want the Wild Goose Festival to be?
\nAnd \u2013 how will you help make that happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gareth Higgins, Wild Goose Executive Director: <\/strong>As a recent immigrant to the US, but someone who has a long history of admiration in US progressive Christianity, I believe the country is at a critical juncture.\u00a0 The culture wars have clearly not ended with the election of President Obama, but rather have intensified.\u00a0 The progressive Christian movement is assailed by both its right wing denouncers, and secular progressives who don\u2019t want to have anything to do with religion.\u00a0 The tragic but perhaps reasonable fact is, to outsiders, Christians still look boring as a library of algebra textbooks (apologies to any mathematicians reading).\u00a0 We\u2019re also sometimes guilty of scaring people, and not in a good way.\u00a0 If we\u2019re honest, it\u2019s not only outsiders who think that way.\u00a0 And so, it must be possible to do something different.\u00a0 It must be possible to create space for creative space.\u00a0 It must be possible to throw a wild party that reminds us just how wild \u2013 in the sense of untamed spirits, alive to the purposes of God, yearning for our full humanness, and binding the wounds of the suffering \u2013 we can be.<\/p>\n

So, What is Wild Goose?<\/strong><\/p>\n

A justice festival that feels more like a long weekend party than a conference, rooted in the progressive Christian tradition, using the lenses and gifts of art, music, and conversation to nurture a radical community of people connected to each other, to the suffering people of the world, and to the earth itself.\u00a0 A festival that starts new conversations, and continues old ones in a new way.\u00a0 A festival at which everyone can feel welcome, from any faith background or none.\u00a0 A festival at which everyone can participate, because the traditional hierarchies between \u2018teachers\u2019 and \u2018learners\u2019 have been collapsed. A festival that provides a platform for things to be said and heard that may not be said or heard anywhere else in the US.\u00a0 A festival whose economic and structural values parallel those being promoted by the people who speak, perform and attend.\u00a0 A festival where once a year conversations take place that change our lives forever.\u00a0 A festival that becomes both an axis point for and an access point to helping shape the future of Christian practice in America.\u00a0 A festival that helps people live better.<\/p>\n

To answer the question, then:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I want Wild Goose to be an event that will help people live better \u2013 both while they\u2019re attending it, and for the year afterward.\u00a0 I\u2019ll help this happen by trying to offer some leadership to the overall vision, to bring people to the table to create the Wild Goose community, and to try to hear to what the Spirit is saying to us.\u00a0 And we need your help to do this\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"