The Threshold Arc

Four Liminal Spaces x Four Reflective Postures

The porch is a slow space to observe —there’s no hurry, no rushing.

Our keynotes and large gatherings are your opportunity to turn your attention to what’s around us.

The Reflective Posture:
We look together

The table is an invitation to engage with what’ve seen.

Panels, workshops, and good conversations with leaders who are actively engaged with formation, mission, and justice every day.

The Reflective Posture:
We ask together

The path is made by walking.

We’re grateful for local Twin City friends who will host small groups in order to share stories, answer questions, and inspire you toward creative work.

The Reflective Posture:
We walk together

Gardens are places to rest and tend to all you’ve encountered.

Quiet spaces for prayer, art, journaling, and a contemplation room that stays open all day —we offer these for you to process, grieve, and heal.

The Reflective Posture:
We tend together

We’ll help you connect with other theological practitioners from across the country so you can find inspiration and leave empowered to do your very best work in your community. You can enjoy pre-conference options, multiple plenary sessions, tracks with workshops and forum panels, plus dedicated time for coffee, networking, and more.

About Awakenings 2027

All titles are subject to change; schedule TBD.

APRIL 15—17, 2027 MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Keynote Talks & Topics

Schedule information coming soon.

A gathering you move through, not a conference you navigate.

Four liminal spaces —or thresholds. One formation.

We could have built a schedule with keynotes, breakouts, networking. You'd choose sessions. You'd optimize. You'd leave with notebooks full and three new connections.

Instead, we're asking something else of you: Move with us.

We've designed a formation arc—a three-day journey that takes you from standing together (the Porch), to asking questions (the Table), to walking into the actual city (the Path), to letting it reshape you (the Garden).

We’ll move through this together.

That means you'll connect with new folks and hear new stories. You'll encounter practitioners whose work may be different from what you thought you understood, but will compel you all the same.

And you'll have space —real space— to process, to grieve, to wonder, while also being able to tend and cultivate the quiet, interior spaces of your own heart, too.

Gather with us.

We’ll be at Mill City Church in Northeast Minneapolis.