Our Mission

Rooted in orthodox Christianity, the Regeneration Forum gathers emerging Christian leaders across deep differences, advancing conversations and relationships that will impact the future of the church and the culture. Our primary audience is college-educated Christians beginning careers of leadership in the academy, the arts, business and the professions, the home, media, politics and the church.

The Regeneration Forum helps emerging leaders cross the divisions that could easily render their influence shallow, cacophonous or ineffective. We bring them together with Christians who are seriously different from themselves, not watering down differences in lowest-common-denominator fashion, but inviting conversations where all the specificity of different Christian traditions and vocations are brought to bear on contemporary questions. We are uniquely focused on conversations and relationships that cross disciplinary and professional lines, believing that such interaction is essential to addressing the multifaceted challenges of the postmodern flood. And we have a deep connection to historical Christianity that balances the general youthfulness of our audience.

Our Values

While our principal purpose is to facilitate conversation and relationships, not advance one particular agenda, the forum seeks to shape those conversations and relationships along several core values:

• the priority of community—corporate manifestations of Christian faith and practice that eschew privatization and pietism and are built on growing love and mutual accountability.

• the comprehensiveness of the Gospel—its relevance to every area of nature and culture.

• the necessity of discernment—cultivating clear thought and expression in a sound bite-driven culture.

• the primacy of cultural engagement—resisting Christian ghettoization and self-marginalization through “Christian” music, art, et cetera, and encouraging Christian participation in the wider artistic culture.

• the imperative of Christian unity—as far as possible, without abandoning deeply held convictions, seeking to realize the unity of the Church described in John 17.

The Regeneration Forum pursues its mission through three related initiatives: the magazine re:generation quarterly, local RQ forums in cities throughout North America and the annual gathering, The Vine.

re:generation quarterly

The purpose of the magazine re:generation quarterly is to provide commentary, critique and celebration of the Church and contemporary culture. Our core conviction is that communities of Christians, in many forms, are the paramount resource of transformation in their neighborhoods—hence our tagline, “community transforming culture.” Over five years, RQ has established itself as a leading thoughtful journal on faith and culture. In 1997 RQ was named as one of the “top 10 resources for cultural literacy” by Christianity Today. We have received significant attention beyond the Christian community—in 1999 RQ received the Utne Reader's Alternative Press Award for spiritual coverage, and RQ or its principals were featured in media as diverse as the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Times, and PBS's Religion and Ethics News Weekly.