The Center's Summer Seminars are a popular offering in our program year, drawing a national audience to Portland for all over the country. An exploration of some of the most pressing questions and issues in Christianity today, Summer Seminar speakers have included Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Sr. Joan Chittister, Diana Butler Bass, Brian McLaren, Barbara Rossing and Jim Wallis.
SUMMER SEMINAR 2012
Living Together: Relationships and Vows in Community
June 11-13, 2012
with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Hosted by Trinity’s Center for Spiritual Development, Summer Seminar is an opportunity to delve deeply into some of the most pressing questions facing people of faith in the 21st Century. This summer we’re delighted to host Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, best-selling author of The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Modern Culture and co-author with Shane Claiborne of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals. Jonathan is director of the School for Conversion, a non-profit organization that seeks to foster community and form people in the way of Jesus. He joins local writers and leaders in exploring how we can draw from the wisdom of ancient traditions in sustaining the promises we make – marital, baptismal, and familial – and ordering the lives we build together. Watch the Center website for registration information.
Summer Seminar 2010 CDs and DVDs now available!
Relive this exciting seminar as Marcus Borg and Dom Crossan explore “the surplus of meaning” behind some of the most important words in the Christian language such as God, salvation, justice, prayer, the parables of Jesus, creeds and Eucharistic language. This material dives into why Christian language must be reclaimed, redeemed and liberated from the distorted meanings it has acquitted, bound to conventional domestications. Marcus Borg and Dom Crossan suggest that the key to setting it free, discussed at this year’s Summer Seminar, is through an historical and metaphorical approach—a parabolic and symbolic understanding of the language itself.
Complete CD set (14 disks) : $75
Complete DVD set (7 disks) : $125*
All orders include a copy of the 2010 Summer Seminar handouts. Prices do not include shipping.
Place your order by phone at: 503.478.1218 (CC number to be charged and billing address needed), or stop by the Trinity Bookstore for your copy today!
*This year, The Center for Spiritual Development partnered with a student from The Art Institute- Portland to produce this DVD. To be consistent to the learning curve of a student project while respecting the value of the content of the material, we’ve priced the set accordingly. A special thank you to student Vik Sklyarov who worked diligently to produce this DVD set.