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Events in 2008 Click on an underlined event title for greater detail
"Transformational
Leadership in the Missional Church" -
April 15-17 with Rev. Kevin Mundell You have the option to register online and pay by credit card or check for most WCC events! To view or print an event evaluation form click here. Tell us what kind of events/presenters you would like the WCC to offer. Click here.
Subversive Books of the
Bible for Subversive People of Faith -
May 7 - 9
May 7 at Underwood Memorial Baptist Church
Presenter: Dr. Ken Stone, Professor of Bible,
Culture and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Dr. Stone examines "How does the Hebrew Bible model
dissent and social resistance?" Christians often explore this question by
turning to the Old Testament prophets. However, this workshop will focus
on resources for dissent and resistance that are found in the five Biblical
books which function as "Festival Scrolls" in Judaism: Ruth, Song of Songs,
Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther. Although not always considered
subversive, each of these short books raises radical questions about such
matters as religious and ethnic identity, gender, marriage, sexuality,
suffering, divine activity and retribution, and the legitimate role of doubt and
skepticism in the life of faith.
Registration:
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here to
download a PDF copy of the event flyer with registration form to view or
print. Click
here to register online and pay by credit card or check.
Vision From the End of the
World: Ezekiel in Exile
William Tooman, Ph.D. Hebrew and Semitic Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at
Edgewood College, madison, WI and specializes in the literature and thought of
the Hebrew Bible. He works in particular on the Book of Ezekiel, history of
interpretation, intertextuality, composition history, and the ancient Greek and
Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible. He also teaches in the fields of
Church history, early Christian literature and world religions.
The Book of Ezekiel was crafted to involve its
readers in questions of identity - national identity, religious identity,
present identity and future identity. Ezekiel accomplished this by raising
issues of heritage, loyalty and affiliation. He pushed his readers to embrace a
radical vision for the future. Come and discover how Ezekiel's vision for
Israel, with the help of the imagination and metaphor, can speak anew to the
assumptions and values of believing communities in our time.
Workshop locations and registration information will
be available in June, 2008.
Washington Island Forum 2008
- June 23 - 27, 2008
What's Past is Prologue: Hope, Transformation
and Emerging Christianity
The featured presenter for the 2008 Washington
Island Forum will
be Diana Butler Bass, an expert in American religion who works as an
author, speaker and independent editor. She holds a Ph.D. in religious
studies from Duke University and is the author of six books on American
religious practice including, Christianity for the Rest of Us, released
in 2006. From 2002 to 2006 she was the project director of a national Lilly
Endowment funded study of mainline Protestant vitality. She has taught at
University of California, Santa Barbara, Macalester College, Rhodes College and
the Virginia Theological Seminary. She is an Episcopalian and she and her
husband, Richard Bass, live in Washington, D.C.
In The Tempest, William
Shakespeare wrote of the relationship between history and the future as,
“What’s past is prologue, what is to come in yours and my discharge.” In
this year’s Washington Island Forum, Diana Butler Bass explores the
lesser-traveled paths of the Christian past as a way of personal and
congregational spirituality, renewal, and change. Diana Butler Bass is the author of
six books including Christianity for the Rest of Us (Harper One,
2006) and the forthcoming After Jesus: Recovering the History of
Christianity as a Way of Hope and Transformation (Harper One, 2009).
Learn more about Diana Butler Bass at her website
www.dianabutlerbass.com
For a copy of the 2008 Forum Information Flyer
in PDF format click here.
Note:
The
2008 Forum will be held in late June, rather than in July as in past years.
The Forum dates are June 23-27, 2008.
Early Pre-registration: To view or print a
pre-registration form for the 2008 Washington Island Forum in PDF format click
here. To pre-register
online click
here. The cost of the 2008
Forum is $225 for persons who pre-register by May 1, 2008 and $250 after May 1.
A full refund is available for persons who notify WCC of cancellation by June 1.
2009 Washington Island Forum
The 2009 Washington Island Forum will be held June
22-26, 2009. The presenter will be John Bell, a minister in the Church of
Scotland, noted broadcaster, lecturer and activist. He is also known for his
hymn-writing, many published by the Iona Community in Scotland and G.I.A.
Publications in North America. Pre-registration begins June 25, 2008.
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