Mustard Seed vs McWorld
Seminar Tom & Christine Sine
Court of Miracles, Wed.-Fri., 1-2 PM; Thur.-Sat., 10-11 AM
Tom Sine is a consultant in futures research and planning for Christian and secular organizations. He and his wife Christine direct the Seattle-based Mustard Seed Associates, helping organizations face the challenges of a changing world. Tom's 1981 bestseller, Mustard Seed Conspiracy urged Christians to resist the pressures of greed and materialism and fulfill the call of Christ in their local communities and around the world. In Mustard Seed vs. McWorld: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future (Baker, 1999), Tom sought to find a Christian alternative to both extremes of Jihad (world-shunning fundamentalism) and McWorld (anything-goes globalization). The Sines' new book, Living on Purpose: Finding God's Best for Your Life (Baker, 2002), challenges Christians to chart a purposeful path through a dizzying and often toxic culture. This six-session seminar examines the causes, consequences, and culture of globalism and how the church and individual Christians can maintain their faith and witness in a future that has already begun.

Revolutionary Cinema of Iran
Film Series
Flickerings, Wed.-Sat., 3-5 PM; Wed.-Thur., 7-9 PM
Something significant has been happening with the cinema of Iran. It's not just that films like Kandahar and The Day I Became a Woman, and The Circle have been winning awards at international festivals and showing up on Top Ten Films lists. And it's not just the innovative stylistic approaches of Iranian directors that is winning them acclaim among critics and filmmakers. It's not even just the fact that these films offer Westerners an astonishing look at a culture usually considered closed and hostile to the West. What is really amazing about these films is the vitality of discussion about Iran's own problems, especially connected with the role and rights of women in revolutionary Islamic society. Flickerings is pleased to present a program of films that spotlights all of these significant aspects of Iranian cinema, with an eye to contrasting films that talk about women under Jihad with a look at at the fate of woman in McWorld. See www.flickerings.com for films and schedule.

What Women Want
Seminar Sharon Hersh
I & Thou, Wed.-Fri., 2-3 PM; Thur.-Sat., 9-10 AM
Women bear the most painful burdens of both Jihad and McWorld: on this side of the veil, it is advertising images and expectations which have had such a devastating effect on the lives of women. In order to survive McWorld, women need to understand both who they are and the traps consumer society sets for them. This six-session seminar will uncover every woman's heart for extraordinary relationships and release her to use her deepest longings to live with dignity, self-esteem, purpose, and greater joy than she ever believed possible. This is good news! God's design for women is more diverse than we might think, wilder than we dare imagine, and intended to lead us to a far more satisfying life than most of us experience. Sharon Hersh is a licensed professional counselor and the author of Bravehearts: Unlocking the Courage to Love with Abandon and Mom, I Feel Fat! Becoming Your Daughter's Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image. Sharon is the director of Women's Recovery & Renewal, a retreat ministry for struggling women and their caregivers. She lives with her family in Lone Tree, Colorado.

McLife in McWorld
Film & Documentary Screenings
Flickerings, Fri., 3-4 PM; 7-8:30 PM
Along with the Iranian films, Flickerings will present a screening of the 2001 independent film, Ghost World, a painfully funny look at two girls attempt to find an alternative to assimilation by McWorld, and among the questions raised is whether such an alternative exists. Ghost World will be preceeded by a screening of the acclaimed PBS Frontline documentary, The Merchants of Cool, an eye-opening and infuriating look at the predatory corporate targeting of teenagers, and the co-option of their own subcultures. See complete list of films.

Beyond Evangelical Jihad
Seminar John Morehead
Discerning the Way, Wed.-Sat., 2-3 PM
"Fundamentalism" is defined by extreme critics as any belief in moral absolutes. On the other hand, there are Fundamentalists and there are Fundamentalists. The reassessment of Modern methods of evangelism and apologetics in the light of better work in anthropology and missiology suggests new directions for presenting the Gospel in a pluralistic world. John Morehead, on staff at Watchman Fellowship and President of Evangelical Ministries to New Religions, explores a new approach to reaching out to groups many still identify by a term called into question by such reassessment, "cult". This new paradigm for evangelism focuses on being missionaries rather than defenders, proactive rather than reactive.