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December 10–11,
2005 | Christ Church Cathedral Dean's Forum
The Cathedral will
host Dr. David Miller and Joseph Cumming. Cumming will describe his vision
for the Center's new Reconciliation Program, which he directs and focuses
on Muslim-Christian dialogue. Download full invite here.
November 13, 2005 | First Church of Christ
Miroslav Volf will speak at the First
Church of Christ, Congregational, Redding, Connecticut. Visitors
are welcome.
November 12, 2005, 5:30 pm | Elevate: A
Post-contemporary, Loudly-contemplative Worship Experience
Chris Scharen will be guest preacher at the event hosted by Redwood
Covenant Church, Santa Rosa, CA. His task is preaching in relation
to U2's song, "Where the Streets Have No Name."
November 3–4, 2005 | Ryan Lectures
Miroslav Volf will present the Ryan
Lectures at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, on “God
Who Forgives.”
October 28, 2005 | AFS-USA Alumni Panel
David Miller will join Richard K. Betts (Institute of War and
Peace Studies, Columbia University) and Simon Chesterman (Institute for
International Law and Justice, New York University) for a panel discussion
on “Power, Politics, and Faith: The Role of Religion in Conflict
and Resolution,” moderated by David B. Fanning, from 6:00 p.m.to
8:00 pm at the United Nations in New York City. The moderator and panelists
are all alumni of AFS intercultural
education and exchange programs. See invitation for
details.
October 27–29, 2005 | Faith as a Way
of Life
The National Working Group will meet in Washington, D.C., to
discuss issues of faith and citizenship.
October 18–19, 2005 | Margaret A.
Steelman Lecture
Miroslav Volf gave the Margaret
A. Steelman Lecture at the Divinity School of Wake Forest University
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The title of the lecture was “Generosity:
Importance, Challenge, Possibility.” He also preached in the Divinity
School chapel
service on “The Superficial and the Profound,” and participated
in a University symposium on “The
Moral Challenges of Professional Life,” moderated by E. J. Dionne
of the Brookings Institution.
October 17–18, 2005 | Twin Cities
Leaders Offline IV
A Leaders Offline event for
CEOs was held in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
October 11–12, 2005 | Theology and
Congregational Life
Chris Scharen participated in a conversation on Theology and Congregational
Life at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut.
September 30, 2005 | Greenwich Leadership
Forum
The first meeting in the Fall 2005 series of the Greenwich
Leadership Forum was held in Greenwich, Connecticut.
September 28–October 1, 2005 | Practical
Theology and Christian Ministry
Chris Scharen participated in a seminar on Practical Theology
and Christian Ministry organized by the Lilly Endowment in Indianapolis,
Indiana.
September 22–23, 2005 | Faith as a
Way of Life Theological Education Renewal Awards
YCFC welcomed faculty teams from Fuller Seminary, Calvin Seminary, Columbia
Biblical Seminary, and Pacific School of Religion.
September 15–16, 2005 | Religiously
Incorrect? Public Faith in a Pluralistic World
YCFC’s second Sarah Smith Memorial
Conference on Moral Leadership was co-sponsored and hosted by Yale
Law School.
August 17–19, 2005 | National Conference
on Workplace Chaplaincy
YCFC, in collaboration with Tyson
Foods, hosted the National
Conference on Workplace Chaplaincy: Hot Issues and Best Practices.
June 24–25, 2005 | Fargo Leaders Offline
A Leaders Offline event
for CEOs was held in Fargo, North Dakota.
June 1, 2005 | United Methodist Church — New
York Annual Conference
Chris Scharen gave the keynote on Connecting Faith and Life
for the Laity Gathering at the 2005 Annual Conference Session of the
United Methodist Church’s New
York Annual Conference, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
May 19, 2005 | Wichita Prayer Breakfast
David Miller was the featured speaker at the Wichita (Kansas)
Prayer Breakfast, an event patterned after the annual National Prayer
Breakfast in Washington, D.C.
May 10–11, 2005 | Twin Cities Leaders
Offline III
A Leaders Offline event
for CEOs was held for the third time in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
April 28–30, 2005 | 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
fourth time, focusing on faith and the sphere of work. The meeting was
hosted by Tyson Foods in
Springdale, Arkansas.
April 22, 2005 | Theology Live: Phyllis
Tickle
Phyllis Tickle, for many years the religion editor for Publishers
Weekly and a prolific author on religious themes, gave a lecture
in the Theology Live series at Yale Divinity School.
April 21–22, 2005 | The New Religious
Pluralism and Democracy
A paper by Miroslav Volf, “A
Voice of One’s Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World,” was
discussed at this conference sponsored
by Georgetown University’s Initiative on Religion, Politics, and
Peace.
April 21, 2005 | New England ELCA Clergy
Offline
Gen-X pastors from the New England Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) participated in a Clergy Offline event,
organized by Chris Scharen, in Stafford Springs, Connecticut.
April 19, 2005 | Theology Live: Nicholas
Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical
Theology, emeritus, at Yale Divinity School, gave a lecture in the Theology
Live series at Yale Divinity School.
April 15, 2005 | Theology Live: C. William
Pollard
Bill Pollard, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board
of Directors of The ServiceMaster Company, gave a lecture in the Theology
Live series at Yale Divinity School.
April 7, 2005 | Theology Live: Jeffrey Stout
Jeffrey Stout, Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton
University and the current President of the American Academy of Religion,
gave a lecture in the Theology Live series at Yale
Divinity School.
April 3, 2005 | Trinity Lutheran Church
Chris Scharen preached at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Haven,
Connecticut.
April 1–3, 2005 | Coalition for Ministry
in Daily Life
YCFC hosted the annual consultation of the Coalition
for Ministry in Daily Life. The consultation’s theme was “Called
to Purposive Life and Work: New Perspectives on Vocation and Occupation.”
April 1, 2005 | Theology Live: James Forbes
James Forbes, pastor of the historic Riverside Church in New
York City, gave a lecture in the Theology Live series
at Yale Divinity School.
March 17, 2005 | Memory, Salvation, and
Perdition
Miroslav Volf gave the 2005
Dudleian Lecture at Harvard Divinity School. (Page contains a RealPlayer
video feed.)
March 13, 2005 | Worship and Work: Making
the Connections
Chris Scharen made this presentation in a series on “Faith
and Work” at First Church of Christ, Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
March 13–14, 2005 | Wilshire Baptist
Church
Miroslav Volf and David Miller preached and spoke at Wilshire
Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas.
March 2, 2005 | Theology Live: Phil Vischer
Phil Vischer, founder of Big Idea Productions and creator of “Veggie
Tales,” gave a lecture in the Theology Live series
at Yale Divinity School.
February 24, 2005 | Theology Live: Dorothy
Bass
Dorothy Bass, leader of the Valparaiso Project on the Education
and Formation of People of Faith, gave a lecture in the Theology
Live series at Yale Divinity School.
February 17, 2005 | Leadership Prayer Breakfast
David Miller was the keynote speaker at the 2005 Leadership
Prayer Breakfast in Stockton, California.
February 15–17, 2005 | Fresno Veritas
Forum
David Miller was one of the main speakers for the Veritas
Forum at California State University, Fresno, a public discussion
on “the radical and ancient possibility of truth in relation to
all of life.”
February 13, 2005 | Equipping the Saints:
Sunday Service as Preparation for Monday Work
David Miller spoke on how parishioners increasingly perceive
a huge gap between their Sunday worship and their Monday work at the
Resourcing Conference of the United Methodist Church’s Connecticut
Central District in Windsor, Connecticut.
February 4, 2005 | Theology Live: Robert
Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow, Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of
Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton
University, gave a lecture in the Theology Live series
at Yale Divinity School.
January 7, 2005 | Yale Alumni Association
David Miller spoke to the Yale Alumni Association in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
January 6–7, 2005 | Living Out Our
Callings in the Workplace
David Miller delivered two keynote addresses at Luther Seminary’s
annual Mid-Winter
Convocation. These Convocations consider the various places we live
out our faith — home, work, community and congregation — and
offer theological enrichment for lay and ordained ministry leaders and
the Christian community at large.