About

Hi, I am Doug. Thanks for visiting my site. When it comes to these sorta-formal, non-personal, neo-professional introductions I like to refer to myself as a social and theological entrepreneur (something I would never do if we were to meet in person).

My work-life has a few aspects to it.

• I am the founder of Solomon’s Porch, a holistic missional Christian community in Minneapolis, Minnesota (www.SolomonsPorch.com).
• I was one of the founders of Emergent Village, a social network of Christians around the world (www.EmergentVillage.com).
• I own a property management business and Wellness Center in Minneapolis.
• I am also co-owner, with Tony Jones (www.Tonyj.net) of an event production company called JoPa Productions (www.JoPaProductions.com).
• I am also an author and professional speaker.

On a more interesting note I have been married to Shelley since 1988 (which is a long time - certainly longer for her than for me) and we are parents of four teenagers.

Now here is more of the web-esse biographical stuff:

• Doug is a graduate of Medowbrook Elementary School (1976),
• North Junior High (1981)
• Hopkins High School (1984)
• Bethel University (1988 — Anthropology),
• Bethel Theological Seminary (1992 - Masters of Arts in Theology).
• (All the graduations listed actually included graduation ceremonies)

Doug has worked in churches, for a non-profit foundation and owns three businesses in Minneapolis.

Doug is a speaker and consultant for churches, denominations and businesses throughout the United States and around the world on issues of postmodern culture, social systems and Christianity.

Doug’s professional endeavors include pastoring a Holistic Missional Christian Community – (www.SolomonsPorch.com), speaking and writing (www.DougPagitt.com) and owning businesses in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He is seeking to find creative, entrepreneurial, generative ways to join in the hopes, dreams and desires God has for the world. Doug was one of the founders of Emergent Village.

Doug is the author of A Christianity Worth Believing (Jossey-Bass 2008), Church Re-Imagined (Zondervan 2004), Preaching Re-Imagined (Zondervan 2005), and BodyPrayer (Waterbrook 2005). He is the co-editor of An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (Baker Books 2007). He has contributed to numerous books, including The Post-Evangelical (Zondervan 2003), Practioners (Regal 2006), and Listening To The Beliefs of the Emerging Church (Zondervan 2007).

About this Site

Hey everyone, Jon here. The site that you’re currently perusing is running through-and-through on the burly back of WordPress, which is to blog engines what Springsteen is to the entire rock genre. I built the HTML and CSS from scratch with a tip-of-the-hat to Elliot Jay Stocks for his invaluable Starkers theme, which handily stripped out all of WordPress’ default presentational markup, leaving only the blankest (and friendliest) of canvasses. Thanks to Texture King for the source images of planks of wood that I wrang through the Photoshop wringer. Various tips of the hat to the various authors of our WP plugins, bringing you such content as Doug’s schedule, Twitter, and Flickr updates.

Oh, and the beauty of this whole thing — posts, podcasts, and all — is that it’s RSS. So, if you’re not already keeping up with Doug through your feed reader, iPhone, PDA, personalized Google, myYahoo, or what have you, then subscribe already!