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Music for Worship That MattersPre-Conference WorkshopMinisters WeekWeatherly HallMonday, February 6 at 9:00 am Recent research indicates that a minimum of 20% and as much as 70% of a typical worship service uses music. With so much information and many opinions available, how can leaders of worship best serve 21st century congregations with music? What basic principles from the past can be appropriated for worshipers today? How can Scripture be brought alive in fresh and new ways by the singing of Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs? Dr. Monie will raise insightful thoughts from his experience as a pastor and planner of worship and pose theological questions to consider. Dr. Mann will discuss the best use of hymns in worship giving historical and theological contexts from which they arose and exploring why they are relevant to worship in the 21st century. Dr. Anderson will give historical contexts for a theology of music in worship from his significant understandings of church history and practical considerations of an experienced church musician. Dr. Kroeker will explore sources and settings of Psalms for congregational singing, as well as surveying the latest research on how the arts and music can be incorporated effectively in worship. Attendees will experience lively discussion, singing, and come away with new resources for worship planning and to enliven congregational worship experience in their churches.  , Dr. Christopher S. Anderson, Associate Professor of Sacred Music, Perkins School of Theology Dr. Charlotte Kroeker, Executive Director of Church Music Institute and previous faculty at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Robert C. Mann is Director of the Music Resource Library, Church Music Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Music, Stephen F. Austin State University. Rev. Dr. Blair R. Monie, Senior Minister Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas  More information
Wells SermonsWells SermonsMinisters WeekUniversity Christian ChurchEvening Worship, February 6-8 7:00 pm Monday, All Will Be Well (Mark 1:1; 16:1-8). Tuesday, Unhindered (Luke 1:1-4). Wednesday, Binding, Loosing(Matthew 16:13-19).  Mike Graves, William K. McElvaney Professor of Preaching and Director of Continuing Education, Saint Paul School of Theology Mike Graves is the William K. McElvaney Professor of Preaching at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri and Regional Minister of Preaching for the Greater Kansas City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). An ordained Disciples minister, he was formally educated as a Baptist, having earned his MDiv and PhD at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He says he spent many hours in the libraries here on the TCU campus. He previously served as pastor in two Baptist churches, and nowadays is a guest preacher in many different traditions, but especially DOC ones in the Kansas City area. Dr. Graves has also taught adjunctively at Spurgeon’s College in London, England, and given the Warrack Lectures in Saint Andrews, Scotland and the Chungyup Symposium Lectures in Seoul, S. Korea. He is the author and/or editor of six books on preaching, including the collection Craddock Stories and The Fully Alive Preacher: Recovering from Homiletical Burnout. His current book project is titled Another Look at Narrative Preaching. He and his wife Carol are originally from Houston, Texas, and two of their three grown children were born in Fort Worth, while in seminary. Organ Recital and Hymn SingOrgan Recital and Hymn SingMinisters WeekUniversity Christian ChurchTuesday, February 7 at 3:00 pm  Patrick Scott, Organist, University Christian Church, Austin, Texas A native of Picayune, Mississippi, Mr. Patrick A. Scott holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ Performance from Birmingham-Southern College where he studied with James Cook, a Masters of Music degree in Organ Performance and Sacred Music from the University of Texas, Austin, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, also from the University of Texas where he studies with Gerre and Judith Hancock. His other major teachers have included Betty Polk and Kathy Vail. While at Birmingham-Southern he was the Annie B. Ellis Organ Scholar and won several honors including the Minnie McNeil Carr Scholarship and the Myrtle Jones Steele Scholarship Competitions and the Birmingham Chapter of the AGO Regional Competition for Young Organists. In 2008, he was first prizewinner of the Clarence Dickenson Organ Competition. In 2011 Patrick was named the first prizewinner in the National Federation of Music Clubs Student/Collegiate Auditions, won the Agnes Fowler/Marie V. Thiesen Award, received the First Place Ruby Simons Vought Scholarship and was selected as a semi-finalist in the Rodgers North American Classical Organ Competition and went to compete in the semi-final and final rounds. He is the recipient of the Wihla Hutson Organ Scholarship from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation. Patrick made his international debut in 2009 as part of the Summer Institute for French Organ Study at the Abbey Church of Ste. Criox in Bordeaux and the Church of Notre-Dame in Epernay, France. The following year Patrick traveled to England to study the English Sacred Choral Music tradition at churches and cathedrals in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Winchester. Patrick currently serves as organist of University Christian Church in Austin, Texas. What do We love When We Love Our Neighbor?: Cosmopolitan Theology of Neighbor-LoveScott LecturesMinisters WeekUniversity Christian ChurchTuesday, February 7 at 9:00 and 11:00 am Augustine shifts the question from “Do I love God?” to “What do I love when I love my God?” The name of God is the name of everything we love and desire. Therefore, the authentic question for Augustine is not “whether” we love God but “what” we love when we love our God. Jesus’ teaching reveals us that we cannot separate our love for God from our love for neighbor/enemy/self. Jesus’ radical commandment to love one’s neighbor-and-enemy-as-oneself is a radical call for dissolving the seemingly rigid boundaries between the triad of “I-neighbor-enemy”—the boundaries that appear to be impossible to transgress, to dissolve. The ideal of cosmopolitanism is to enlarge the circle of inclusion and to expand the scope of justice, which is implicit in various biblical texts. The biblical texts with cosmopolitan ideals can be a foundational teaching for a religious practice to transform the view of the other and to ever-enlarge the circle of inclusion—an important act of neighbor-love. In the lecture, I will deal with the ideal of cosmopolitanism and its theological implication in relation to the issue of hospitality as a way of practicing neighbor-love.  Namsoon Kang, Professor of World Christianity and Religions, Brite Divinity School Namsoon Kang is Professor of World Christianity and Religions at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. Before she joined Brite in 2006, she taught at Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK, and Methodist Theological University, Korea. She has been actively involved in various international ecumenical organizations and movements, and was a plenary speaker at the WCC 9th Assembly in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2006. She has given lectures and speeches in Hong Kong, Thailand, Jamaica, India, Korea, Japan, Philippine, Indonesia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the US. She studied in Korea, Germany, and the USA with her Ph.D. from Drew University and is currently the president of WOCATI (World Conference of Associations of Theological Institutions). Writing in both Korean and English, her most recent publications include Handbook of Theological Education in World Christianity (Co-edited), “Constructing Postcolonial Mission in World Christianity,” “Out of Places: Asian Feminist Theology of Dislocation,” and “Towards a Cosmopolitan Theology: Constructing Public Theology from the Future.” |
Future Events
Wednesday Afternoon WorkshopsWednesday, February 08, 2012, Read More Pastoral Spirituality in A Global ContextWednesday, February 08, 2012Bruce Epperly, Theologian, Pastor, Author, and Leader in Faith Formation The Bible: Bane and BlessingsThursday, February 09, 2012Phyllis Trible, University Professor, Wake Forest University Divinity School Power of Black PreachingFriday, February 17, 2012Bishop Walter Scott Thomas, Emerging Voices: Building a Transformative Future for Black ChurchesFriday, February 17, 2012Distinguished Panelists, Saved From Sacrifice: New Light on the CrossSaturday, February 18, 2012Mark Heim, Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology, Andover Newton Theological School Read More Singing Our Way to GodSaturday, March 03, 2012Robert Mann, Director of the Music Resource Library at the Church Music Institute, Dallas and Professor Emeritus of Music, Stephen F. Austin State University Read More Faith Resources and Perspectives for the Experiences of AgingSaturday, March 10, 2012Nancy Ramsay, Dean and Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Care, Brite Divinity School Read More Cosmopolitan Theology of Hospitality: Searching for Neighbor-Love-as-Self-LoveSaturday, March 31, 2012Namsoon Kang, Professor of World Christianity and Religions, Brite Divinity School Read More Religion, Media, and Modern ReligiositySaturday, April 21, 2012Stewart Hoover, Professor of Media Studies and Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Read More |