This is not your ordinary church leadership gathering. It's the Innovative Church Conference, hosted by Granger Community Church. It's where you'll learn to relate. Adapt. Change. And innovate. On September 21-22, join Mark Beeson, the Granger team, Mark Batterson, Perry Noble, and Shane and Shanefor this practical conference that will inspire your ministry team. Our friends at Granger do a great job, complete with compelling teaching, music, and drama. We encourage you to check it out at http://www.wiredchurches.com/.

Brian McLaren argues in the upcoming fall issue of Leadership Journal that young leaders in their 20's and 30's are not connecting with the version of church their parents created. And the fact is, according to McLaren, we as the church aren't listening. Check out more regarding the conversation on the Leadership Journal website. What is your church doing to reach this group?

Make sure to check out David Crowder's latest book (not yet released) Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die. In his second highly personal book, the innovative musician explores the relationship between death, life, grief and community - a quest that was compounded by the sudden, accidental death of friend and pastor Kyle Lake.

Rick Warren joined other world leaders at the International Aids Conference the past two weeks in Toronto, Canada. Check out Rick's comments on the conference, the current state of the fight, and his involvement in it, on his blog at http://www.rickwarren.com/.

Here at Catalyst, we have built some fun components into our website that deal with robots - in a George Jetson futuristic way. But, according to Forbes Magazine, the robot revolution is here, and here for real. In the latest issue, Forbes devotes the cover story to robots and how the recent compounding development of all kinds of robots are fighting wars, driving cars and performing surgeries, among a number of other tasks. Could it be that many of us will soon be losing out on projects and new job opportunities to our small un-human counterparts?