Hosanna Preaching Project—When They Call You a Radical: Preaching Palestine in 2025
The purpose of the Hosanna Project experience is to struggle with and to address the serious theological problems which arise when the traditions of a religious community and its way of reading the scriptures assert that its members are somehow chosen, set apart, called or covenanted to be in a unique and specially privileged relationship with God to the exclusion of all others. These assertions have profoundly affected the self understanding, the relationships to those outside the religious community, and the attitudes and values of many within the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions across the centuries. This year we will focus on flipping the narrative surrounding Palestine. The workshop will prepare attendees to construct more authentic stories of the realities on the ground and speak to their local communities with honesty and urgency. Participants will come away with better media literacy and research skills, a wider grasp on doing good exegesis on the topic of Palestine, and the tools necessary to develop, write, and preach a sermon (or other project format) in their communities. All participants will be eligible to send in their project after the workshop for a chance at winning the 2025 Hosanna Preaching Project cash prize.
Click here to learn more and to register.
SPEAK UP for Palestine! PJN’s 2025 Annual Meeting
About the Annual Meeting
Speak up and judge fairly;
defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:8-9, NIV
The PJN annual meeting planning committee is excited to share that our 2025 annual meeting theme will be: SPEAK UP for Palestine!
During this annual meeting, we hope to offer programming that will inspire us to continue to Speak Up for Palestine. We will feature talks and workshops led by local Palestinian student activists, world-renowned Palestinian artists, and writers and thought-leaders who have put everything on the line to Speak Up for Palestine. We will also spend our time together reflecting on ways in which we have failed to speak up and moments in which we have been complicit through silence. We pray that our time together will rejuvenate and reinvigorate us to keep on Speaking Up for Palestine until Palestine is truly free.
The annual meeting programming will be offered on November 14 and 15. PJN will also host a welcome reception on the evening of Thursday, November 13, for folks who arrive early.
Confirmed speakers include:
Hannah Moushabeck, author, editor, and book marketer from Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States
Sim Kern, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of Genocide Bad and The Free People’s Village.
Tanya Habjouqa, award-winning visual journalist, artist, and educator.
Paying your registration fee
After your have submitted your registration form, please go to our donate page to pay your registration fee. As a reminder, the registration costs are displayed in the table.
Please put “Annual Meeting Registration Fee” and the type of ticket you are purchasing in the donor note section.
Traveling to Madison
There are 2 ways you can fly to Madison.
You can fly into the local airport - Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) - and then take an uber to your hotel.
Or, you can fly into Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and take a bus ($68.60 USD round trip) directly to downtown Madison and then take walk or uber to your hotel.
While it tends to be cheaper to fly into ORD and take a bus to Madison, it is worth checking both options because sometimes the cost to fly into Madison can be comparable.
Where to stay in Madison
The PJN has reserved 3 room blocks at hotels near Christ Presbyterian Church. You are not required to stay at one of these three hotels. We are just offering them to help you plan your trip to Madison.
Start Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
End Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Last Day to Book: Tuesday, October, 14, 2025
Hotel offering:
King Room - 139.00 USD per night (Tax rate: 20.4%)
Overnight parking: $20/night (self-park)
Offers complimentary shuttle to CPC? Yes
Includes complimentary breakfast? No
Onsite restaurant and bar? Yes
Distance to CPC: 0.5 miles (11 minutes walking)
Airport shuttle: Yes
Website: https://www.ihg.com/hotelindigo/hotels/us/en/madison/msnms/hoteldetail
Start Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
End Date: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Last Day to Book: Monday, October, 13, 2025
Hotel offering:
King Room - 149.00 USD per night (Tax rate: 15.5%)
Overnight parking: $18/night (self-park)
Offers complimentary shuttle to CPC? Yes
Includes complimentary breakfast? No
Onsite restaurant and bar? Yes
Distance to CPC: 0.9 miles (21 minutes walking)
Airport shuttle: Yes
Website: https://www.concoursehotel.com
Moxy Madison Downtown (Note: This is the only hotel where we start our room block on Tuesdays, which will be most convenient for folks attending Hosanna.)
Start Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
End Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025
Last Day to Book : Saturday, October 11, 2025
Hotel offerings:
King Room - 119.00 USD per night (Tax rate: 15.5%)
Double Queen Room - 134.00 per night (Tax rate: 15.5%)
Overnight parking: $34/night (valet only)
Offers complimentary shuttle to CPC? No (but may be able to walk next door to Indigo to catch their shuttle)
Includes complimentary breakfast? No
Onsite restaurant and bar? Yes
Distance to CPC: 0.4 miles (11 minutes walking)
Airport shuttle: No
IPMN November 2024 Virtual Meeting
Save the date for our online annual meeting on Saturday, November 9, from 1:00 to 5:00 PM ET. We will hear about successes at the General Assembly and experiences on recent delegations. Plus, we will hear from guest speakers and have time for online fellowship. We will reflect on the past year and discuss activities for the year ahead. Please be sure to save the date and join IPMN for this online get together. Click here to register!
IPMN 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Celebration
Join IPMN for our in-person annual meeting and 20th anniversary celebration hosted at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia! We will host a welcome event the evening of Thursday, March 21, and meet all day on Friday and for a half a day on Saturday.
Cost per person: $150 (excluding accommodation and dinners on Thursday, March 21, and Friday, March 22)
If you are looking for a place to stay, we welcome you to stay at a Marriott Hotel nearby! Use this link to reserve a room in our IPMN room block at a discounted rate.
Please use this link to register and let us know you are coming!
To check out the full meeting agenda, click here.
Keynote speakers:
Adam Horowitz, Editor-in-Chief of Mondoweiss
Adam Horowitz is an Editor-in-Chief of the website Mondoweiss. He received his master's degree in Near Eastern Studies from New York University. He has served as the Director of the Israel/Palestine Program for the American Friends Service Committee where he gained "extensive on-the-ground experience in Israel/Palestine.” Horowitz's writing mainly focuses on the Israel-Palestine conflict, human rights, and international law. His coverage attributes indicate a preference for evolving stories related to government announcements and legal policy regulations. In addition to Mondoweiss, Horowitz has written for The Nation, AlterNet, The Huffington Post, and The Hill.com. He has spoken frequently on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on campuses and to organizations.
Representative Ruwa Romman
Ruwa Romman is currently the Georgia State Representative for House District 97. She was born in Jordan and is the granddaughter of Palestinian refugees. Her family moved to Georgia when she was 7 years old. Romman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics from Oglethorpe University in 2015 and a Masters in Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in 2019. Ruwa has worked as a senior consultant for a professional services management company assisting government agencies and other stakeholders by advising, implementing, and developing improved strategies to deal with major public policy issues at the local, state, and federal level. In the past, she also worked as a Field Organizer for the Georgia Muslim Voter Project, as well as served as Communications Director for CAIR Georgia. Ruwa is passionate about politics, civic engagement, interfaith dialogue and community service.
Hosanna Preaching Project 2024
Registration Closed
The purpose of the Hosanna Project experience is to struggle with and to address the serious theological problems which arise when the traditions of a religious community and its way of reading the scriptures assert that its members are somehow chosen, set apart, called or covenanted to be in a unique and specially privileged relationship with God to the exclusion of all others. These assertions have profoundly affected the self understanding, the relationships to those outside the religious community, and the attitudes and values of many within the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions across the centuries. At the 2024 workshop, we will discuss the undeniable parallels between the settler colonial occupation of Israel on Palestinian land and the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE). Participants will come away with better media literacy and research skills, a wider grasp on doing good exegesis on the topic of Palestine, and the tools necessary to develop, write, and preach a sermon in their communities. All participants will be eligible to send in a sermon after the workshop for a chance at winning the 2024 Hosanna Preaching Project cash prize.
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Time: 9am-5pm ET
Registration cost: No registration fee (excluding cost for accommodation)
Accommodations for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 19-20th, 2024 will be at Columbia Theological Seminary. (IPMN has a limited scholarship funds for lodging assistance which will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis. If you would like to request funds to help with accommodation cost, please email moderator@theipmn.org.)
To learn more, go to https://www.hosannapreachingproject.com/.
For any questions or concerns, please email sermons@theipmn.org
IPMN 2023 Annual Virtual Meeting
Join IPMN for our Virtual Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 4, 2023 from 2:30 to 6:30 PM Eastern Time. This will be an abbreviated meeting for the purposes of business and fellowship.
Click on the link below to register:
IPMN Annual Meeting 2021
Learn more about the full Grant Justice/Make Shade Annual Meeting schedule here.
Join us remotely from around the world for our 2021 Annual Meeting! Click here to register now to join Tony Deik, Sara Améstegui Deik, and Cynthia Holder Rich for a panel and workshop moderated by IPMN's own Katie Archibald-Woodward at our 2021 Annual Meeting in November.
Join us on day two of IPMN's Virtual Annual Meeting to hear about what Christian Zionism is and what we Christians can and must do in order to challenge Christian Zionism. As we look to the 2022 GA and overtures on Empire Religion and Christian Zionism, IPMN is very excited to learn from Tony Deik, Sara Améstegui Deik, and Cynthia Holder Rich.
Our annual meeting is virtual again this year, but that doesn't mean that you can't be a part of a local or regional watch party!
If you miss being around your IPMN friends as much as we do, and feel comfortable attending or helping to host regional watch parties for our virtual meeting, fill out this interest form, and we will be in touch!
IPMN is not directly planning any in-person watch parties or gatherings. Depending on the responses received, however, we will put you in touch with others in your area who have indicated interest in leading or joining an in-person gathering.