Dwight J. Friesen, D.Min.
Associate Professor of Practical Theology
dfriesen@mhgs.edu
Visit Dwight's website at www.dwightfriesen.com.
 
Dr. Friesen brings more than a dozen years of pastoral experience to Mars Hill Graduate School. Dwight was the community-curate of an Eastside emerging simple church for more than eleven years; he is licensed and ordained by the Christian & Missionary Alliance. Dwight earned his Doctor of Ministry degree at George Fox University, where his dissertation research focused on the development of a relational hermeneutic toward connective church leadership and structure. He earned his master’s degree from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois and his undergraduate degree from Ambrose University College in Calgary, Alberta. He is active locally and internationally with missional and emerging church movements, and has served on the “Faith & Order Commission” of the National Council of Churches and blogs irregularly at www.dwightfriesen.com. Dwight, his wife Lynette and their son Pascal live in Bellevue, Washington.
 
Dwight’s speaking and facilitating engagements consist of a wide-range of settings from churches to colleges; from youth events to citywide meetings; from retreats to home groups utilizing a combination of mini-talks, media, discussions, Q&A, smaller group conversation and spiritual exercises.
Some of Dwight’s areas specialty for facilitated learning engagements include topics such as: missional living, faith & culture, God’s networked Kingdom, emerging church issues, connective leadership, contextualization, transformational process, reading Scripture, and new sciences & theology.

Books
Routes & Radishes: And Other Things to Talk about at the Evangelical Crossroads, Zondervan 2010
Thy Kingdom Connected: What the church can learn from Facebook, the Internet and Other Networks, Baker 2009
"Orthoparadoxy: Emerging Hope for Embracing Otherness," in An Emerging Manifesto of Hope, edited by Tony Jones & Doug Pagitt, Baker 2007

Writings/Presentations
...of Essential Community
Living Incarnationally 
Asking Evangelical Questions