Since February of this year, people have been gathering in eleven cities across America for the “Everything Must Change Tour.” The tour brings together a wide range of sponsors – from the Sierra Club to Sojourners to a seminary (Mars Hill Graduate School) to the ONE. And it brings together a wide range of people as well – church leaders, lay people, and spiritual seekers. What brings them together? A desire to understand contemporary global crises and learn what they can do to switch sides from being part of the problem to part of the solution.

Based on my 2007 book, Everything Must Change, the tour highlights four global crises: first, environmental deterioration; second, the growing gap between rich and poor; third, the proliferation of catastrophic weapons, and fourth, the failure of our world’s religions to mobilize people to address the first three crises. Through my research for the book, I became completely convinced: if we want to make a lasting difference in any one of the crises, we need to see how they’re all interrelated.

The conference includes lectures, video, small group interaction, prayers, other liturgical elements, and original music. It’s not too late to catch the tour in Goshen, Indiana (May 9-10). For more information and to register, go to deepshift.org.

-Brian McLaren, author/activist