Greetings! Mike here again whilst Tim is in the Middle East. Today we’re going to look at some top futurist blogs. What’s a futurist, you ask? Futurism – or strategic foresight – is a social sciences discipline. It’s kind’ve like the mirror-image of history. Like history, which doesn’t determine what ‘actually happened’ (something rather impossible, not to mention undesirable given the rich array of perspectives that exist about any given moment of the past), futures (and its always plural) seeks to educate regarding possibilities thinking, a fully-funded imagination that can look at a range of possible future scenarios and pro-actively created desired futures in an empowering way. The reason that I got involved with the Presence families of ministries is largely because I’m a student of Strategic Foresight; Transmillenial eschatology sees the future as an open book, in which we have the sacred privilege of co-creating with God, one moment at a time. While the foresight field is ‘faith neutral’ (its actually historically a tad hostile to faith, though that is changing as more nuanced and integral views effect the discipline), its view of an open future is quite compatible with this “way of seeing.”

Here are futures blogs that my KedgeForward partner Frank Spencer and I pay closest attention to in the foresight community:

Avant Game – Jane McGonigal

Emergent by Design – Venessa Miemis

Far Other Worlds – Dominique Jaurola

Foresight Culture – John Mahaffie

Open the Future – Jamais Cascio

The Long Now

The event will be held at the Indian Hills Church and will have as participants Tim King and Kevin Beck of Post-Christian Connection, Mike Morrell of zoecarnate, leading futurist Frank Spencer, Trevor Harden of RockOm and many more.

Nashville’s own Christian rockers, The Redding Brothers will be performing all 4 days!

More details and an updated list of participants coming soon, stay tuned!