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Fall 2004 | Greenwich Leadership Forum (GLF)
This series of
morning learning and discussion events for executives in Greenwich, Connecticut,
completed a second successful season with six sessions on integrating
faith and work.
December 9, 2004 | Ethics and Leadership:
Today’s State of the World
David Miller participated on a panel on “Ethics and Leadership:
Today’s State of the World” at the 12th
Annual Investor-Advisor Dialogue in New York sponsored by the Institute
for Private Investors.
November 30, 2004 | Theology Live: Stanley
Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
at Duke Divinity School, gave a lecture and participated in discussions
for the inaugural Theology
Live event.
November 13, 2004 | Integrating Faith and
Work
David Miller and Bill Pollard conducted a weekend seminar for
businesspeople on “Integrating Faith and Work” at Germantown
Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee.
November 11, 2004 | Faith and Ethics in
the Workplace
David Miller gave a presentation on “Faith and Ethics
in the Workplace” at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greenwich,
Connecticut, as part of their new midweek evening outreach to the business
community.
November 5–7, 2004 | Lutheran Student
Movement of New England Fall Retreat
Chris Scharen participated as a retreat leader, focusing on
the topic “The Cross as a Way of Life: Theology of the Cross and
Contemporary Culture.”
November 5, 2004 | Integrating Faith and
Work in a Secular Arena
David Miller gave a presentation on “Integrating Faith
and Work in a Secular Arena” to a men’s group in Larchmont,
New York.
October 28–30, 2004 | Faith as a Way
of Life National Working Group
The 24 pastors, laypersons, and academic theologians of the Faith
as a Way of Life project’s National Working Group met for the
third time in New Haven.
October 22, 2004 | Chicken Soup for the
Soul at Work
Speaker and consultant Martin Rutte led a one-day inspirational
session at the New Haven Lawn Club as part of the series “Spirit
at Work,” co-sponsored by YCFC and Yale’s Organizational
Development & Learning Center.
October 20, 2004 | Faith and Sustainable
Development
David Miller gave a paper and led a discussion at the 4th US
Senior Executives’ Seminar sponsored by HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & the
Environment Programme. David’s presentations explored the relevance
of faith and culture to the challenge of sustainable development and
the significance of personal ethics, values, and faith to people committed
to leading their organizations toward sustainability.
October 18–19, 2004 | Leaders Offline
YCFC presented this jointly sponsored invitational event for
CEOs, hosted by three leading CEOs in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and
facilitated by David Miller. The group looked at live business dilemmas
and drew on business experience and biblical wisdom to help resolve them.
October 7–9, 2004 | Lilly Practical
Theology Seminar
Chris Scharen was a presenter and participant at this gathering
in Indianapolis, Indiana, sponsored by the Lilly Endowment.
October 5, 2004 | Memory, Salvation and
Perdition: Memory of Suffering and Reduction of Violence
Miroslav Volf delivered this lecture as part of Georgetown University’s Pacem
in Terris lecture series, which commemorates the 40th anniversary
of the papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. The series examines
issues and prospects in the global imperative for peace.
October 4, 2004 | Seeking Mastery of Foolishness:
A Personal Recollection of Ministerial Formation
Chris Scharen gave this lecture in the ongoing Liturgy Symposium
sponsored by the Institute
of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School.
September 28, 2004 | Clergy Discussion on
Faith and Work
David Miller gave a brief presentation, followed by a Q&A
discussion, on the topic of integrating faith and work at Yale Divinity
School for local New Haven area clergy.
September 28, 2004 | The Art of the Impossible:
Business as Morality in Practice
Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the international Catholic
fraternal society The
Knights of Columbus, addressed the need for a greater commitment
to ethics in the conduct of business, suggesting that it is possible
not only to conduct business from a moral standpoint, but also to do
so profitably. The lecture was given at the Saint
Thomas More Chapel in New Haven, Connecticut.
September 24, 2004 | Episcopal Church House
of Bishops
Miroslav Volf addressed the national House of Bishops of the
Episcopal Church in Spokane, Washington (announcement; story).
September 23–24, 2004 | Faith as a
Way of Life grant finalists workshop
The finalists for grants to be given by the Faith
as a Way of Life project for renewal in theological education gathered
in New Haven with Drs. Thomas Schatthauer and James Neiman of Wartburg
Seminary.
September 16–17, 2004 | A Crisis of
Trust? Trust in a Culture of Suspicion and Spin
The inaugural Sarah Smith Memorial Conference
on Moral Leadership at Yale Divinity School focused on the topic
of trust.
June 16–18, 2004 | Confronting the
Corporate Culture of Moral Indifference
David Miller gave a three-part lecture series at the annual
Conference for Rectors of Large Episcopalian Churches at Christ Church
Greenwich in Greenwich, Connecticut.
June 11–13, 2004 | The Children of
Abraham and the Art of Peacemaking
Miroslav Volf spoke at a conference on “The
Children of Abraham and the Art of Peacemaking,” organized
by Christians, Muslims, and Jews seeking to work together for peace and
held at the American Cathedral in Paris.
June 10–13, 2004 | Reconciliation
and Memory
Miroslav Volf gave a plenary address, “Reconciliation
and Memory,” at the 59th annual convention of the Catholic
Theological Society of America in Reston, VA.
June 7–11, 2004 | Ministering to Those
Called to the Marketplace
David Miller led a course on “Ministering to Those Called
to the Marketplace” as part of Yale Divinity School’s Summer
Term 2004.
May 27, 2004 | Ethics and Spirituality in
Business
The Excellence in Leadership Group in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin, had
David Miller give its fifth annual luncheon address on “Ethics
and Spirituality in Business.”
May 23–26, 2004 | Forgiveness and
its Dimensions
Miroslav Volf spoke at an international conference on “Forgiveness
and its Dimensions’ in the Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and
Jewish traditions at the Tantur
Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies in Jerusalem.
May 7, 2004 | Greenwich Executive Breakfast
Series on “Faith and Ethics in the Workplace”
David Miller gave a presentation to the Greenwich (Connecticut)
Executive Breakfast Series entitled “It’s a Fine Theory:
Developing an Ethical Framework That Works,” the third in a series
of three talks on “Faith
and Ethics in the Workplace.”
May 6–7, 2004 | Theology of
Hope 40 Years Later
With a paper entitled “Hope Against Hope,” Miroslav
Volf participated in a conference celebrating the impact over four decades
of the first major work by Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope.
The conference was held at the Candler
School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
May 5, 2004 | Spirit at Work Discussion
Group
Following up on David Whyte’s March presentations at Yale
on “Spirit at Work,” David Miller facilitated an informal
opportunity for members of the Yale community to share their thoughts,
visions, or questions about spirituality at work. The discussion was
co-sponsored by YCFC and the Yale WorkLife
program.
April 30–May 2, 2004 | Executive Leadership
Forum
David Miller served on the faculty of the Billy Graham Executive
Leadership Forum at the Billy
Graham Training Center near Asheville, North Carolina, an invitation-only
attended by CEOs from across the country.
April 29, 2004 | Yoder Dialogue
Miroslav Volf was featured in a dialogue honoring the memory
of John Howard Yoder at the Joan
B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies of the University
of Notre Dame.
April 29–May 1, 2004 | Faith as a
Way of Life National Working Group
The 24 pastors, laypersons, and academic theologians — representing
a variety of locations, traditions, and situations — of the Faith
as a Way of Life project’s National Working Group met for the
second time in New Haven for discussion of how and why faith is often not a
way of life — when people live according to orienting powers other than
Christian faith.
April 16–18, 2004 | Ministry in Daily
Life
David Miller attended a board meeting and Annual Consultation
of the Coalition
for Ministry in Daily Life, a network of persons and organizations
to “help Christians discern their ministry and be affirmed, equipped,
supported and empowered to minister.”
April 15, 2004 | The Role of the Holy Spirit
from 9 to 5
Miroslav Volf gave a lecture on “Theology and Vocation:
The Role of the Holy Spirit from 9 to 5” at Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary, followed by a panel discussion with Paul Lim,
Gary Parrett, and Sean McDonough of the Gordon-Conwell faculty.
April 13–14, 2004 | The High Calling
of Our Daily Lives
David Miller attended an Advisory Council meeting for TheHighCalling.org,
a program of the H. E. Butt Foundation that “seeks to connect people
with the faith that undergirds and sustains all that we do.”
April 2, 2004 | Greenwich Executive Breakfast
Series on “Faith and Ethics in the Workplace”
David Miller gave a presentation to the Greenwich (Connecticut)
Executive Breakfast Series entitled “It’s a Dog’s World:
Being Ethical in a Not-So-Ethical World,” the second in a series
of three talks on “Faith
and Ethics in the Workplace.”
April 1 and 8, 2004 | Christian Ethics in
the Workplace
David Miller led a two-part conference call with IBM managers
on “Christian Ethics in the Workplace,” exploring the ethical
teachings of the Christian faith as they pertain to the marketplace and
the corporate world.
March 30–April 1, 2004 | Muslims and
Christians Building Bridges
Miroslav Volf delivered a paper entitled “Scriptures in
Dialogue?” at the third Building
Bridges seminar, a meeting of Muslim and Christian scholars convened
by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Georgetown University
in Washington, DC.
March 30, 2004 | Reversing Hate
Miroslav Volf gave a presentation on “Reversing Hate” as
part of “Bridge Building: Clergy as Designers of Reconciliation,” a Ministry
Professional Growth Seminar transmitted live by satellite to pastors
worldwide.
March 17–19, 2004 | Faith, Profit, and Decision Making
David Miller responded to Leland Ryken at the spring conference on “Faith, Profit, and Decision Making: Christians in the Corporation” hosted by Wheaton College’s Center for Applied Christian Ethics.
March 5, 2004 | Spirit at Work
Poet, author, and organizational development expert David Whyte
spoke at Yale as part of the series “Spirit at Work,” leading
two workshops: “Finding the Soul in the Workplace” and “Courage
and Conversation for a New Workplace.”
March 5, 2004 | Greenwich Executive Breakfast
Series on “Faith and Ethics in the Workplace”
David Miller gave a presentation to the Greenwich (Connecticut)
Executive Breakfast Series entitled “If I Were King: Closing the
Gap Between Personal and Marketplace Ethics,” the first in a series
of three talks on “Faith
and Ethics in the Workplace.”
February 26–27, 2004 | Christian Faith
and Contemporary Pluralism
Miroslav Volf gave the three 2003–2004 Theological Lectures
at the Associated Mennonite
Biblical Seminary on the topic “The Light Shines in the Darkness:
Christian Faith and the Varieties of Contemporary Pluralism.”
February 26, 2004 | Evolution and Human
Ethics
John Hare, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at
Yale Divinity School and a member of the Center’s Advisory Board,
gave a lecture on ”Prospects for an Evolutionary Account of the
Origin of Human Ethics” at the Divinity School. The event was sponsored
by the Religious Issues in Bioethics Working Group, an initiative of
the Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project, coordinated by the YDS
Initiative in Religion, Science and Technology.
February 21, 2004 | Catholic Men’s
Ministry
David Miller gave a keynote presentation on “Man in the
World” at the eighth Annual Conference of the Catholic
Men’s Ministry of Oklahoma.
February 20, 2004 | Faith and Work: Can
It Really Be Done?
David Miller gave a talk entitled “Integrating Faith and
Work: Can It Really Be Done?” to a group of business leaders in
Kansas City.
February 18, 2004 | Faith and Work in the
Legal Profession
David Miller gave a presentation on “Integrating Faith
and Work in the Legal Profession” to the Yale Law School Christian
Fellowship.
February 17, 2004 | Religion and Our World
in Crisis
Miroslav Volf was interviewed on the topic “Religion and
Our World in Crisis: Christianity and Violence” by Krista Tippett,
host of the radio show “Speaking
of Faith” on Minnesota
Public Radio. The interview was taped at the National Cathedral in
Washington, DC.
February 11, 2004 | How the Church Can Help
Businesspeople
David Miller gave a presentation on “How the Church Can
Help Its Businesspeople Integrate Faith and Work” before the cabinet
of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
February 6, 2004 | War, Violence, and the
Bible
A paper by Miroslav Volf was read at a conference on “War,
Violence and the Bible” at Denver
Seminary.