. . . leadership

Jonny Baker photographer and author of the popular weblog on postmodern worship, art, and culture in the UK. Jonny works for the Church Mission Society developing and supporting new ways of being church in the emerging culture. He is a member of Grace, an alternative worship community in West London and Baker is part of the wider alternative worship movement world wide.

Jonny is the author of Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church and The Labyrinth: A transforming ritual, Creator and collector of “worship tricks,” worship coordinator for the “Greenbelt Arts Festival.” He is also the director of independent music and worship resource publisher Proost .
(more on his site jonnybaker.blogs.com )

Dr. Ed Phillips, recently became an Associate Professor of Worship and Liturgical Theology, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. His focus is on the history and
practical and pastoral aspects worship. As well as, how churches conducted worship, initiated Christians, and organized ministries--as a way to understand the development of Christian theology. Dr. Phillips chaired the United Methodist General Conference Holy Communion Study for the past three years. That study has produced the first comprehensive treatment of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper for the United Methodist Church: This Holy Mystery: the United Methodist Understanding of Holy Communion. (More: http://www.divinity.duke.edu/portal_memberdata/ephillips )

This event is coordinated by the emerging leadership of the united methodist tradition.