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Multi-Year Program in Christian Formation Ministry of Healing & Wholeness Training |
2008 - 09 Lecture Series |
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Richard Rohr
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Most of the world lives in cities that have become noisy, congested and stressful. Yet, somehow we have to live "in the world and yet not of the world." In the Friday lecture Fr. Rohr leads us through lecture and guided meditation to integrate our very active lives with that inner core which is "hidden with Christ in God." In the Saturday workshop, Fr. Richard Rohr shares some of the most exciting themes of the Bible, “things hidden” as Jesus said “since the foundation of the world.” With presentations and discussion, Fr. Rohr hopes to offer you the gift of insight into how a people gradually came to believe for themselves and know for themselves, with immense inner authority, the reality of God through Scripture. Learn a method for reading Scripture that puts the heart and the head together. Discover how a theme unfolds inside the entire Bible, creating a spirituality that is grounded, traditional, and yet frequently “counter-intuitive” in its mature form. See how the text, in its entirety, mirrors our own development of spiritual consciousness, with all stages revealed: getting it, losing it, resisting it, loving it, and even opposing the Mystery of God. Fr. Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He founded the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971, and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1986, where he presently serves as Founding Director. Richard was born in Kansas in 1943. He entered the Franciscans in 1961, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970, and received a Master’s Degree in Theology from Dayton in that year. He now lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community in Albuquerque, and divides his time between local work and teaching on all continents. Richard has partnered with such esteemed teachers as Thomas Keating, OCSO, Ron Rolheiser, OMI, Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Joan Chittister, OSB, Jim Wallis and James Finley. Some of his best known books include: Everything Belongs, Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation, Hope Against Darkness, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective, From Wild Men to Wise Men: Reflections on Male Spirituality. His latest book Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality was published in November 2007. Richard is known for his numerous recorded teachings, and through the Center’s quarterly publication, Radical Grace. He is also a regular contributing writer for Sojourners and Tikkun magazines. He has been a featured essayist on NPR’s “This I Believe” and a guest of Dr. Mehmet Oz on the “Oprah and Friends” radio show. He also appears in the 2006 documentary, ONE, featuring spiritual teachers from around the world.
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The Rev. Frederick Schmidt
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The Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. is Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. An Episcopal priest, he also serves as the director of the Episcopal studies program. He is canonically resident in the Diocese of Washington and a member of the national church’s Board of Examining Chaplains. He is the author of numerous published articles and reviews, including forty-four entries in Doubleday’s Anchor Bible Dictionary, as well as contributions to Feminist Theology andThe Scottish Journal of Theology. He is author of A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination and the Church, The Changing Face of God, When Suffering Persists, Conversations with Scripture: Revelation and What God Wants for Your Life, Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions. His more recent work includes an article co-written for the Heythrop Journal with Drs. Jeff Bishop and Philipp Rosemann, entitled, “Fides ancilla medicinae: On the Ersatz Liturgy of Death in Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine.” His work in higher education includes service as a lecturer in New Testament studies at Oxford University, and as a tutor at Keble College, Oxford. He has been a guest lecturer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas, Dallas. |
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The Most Rev. Frank Griswold
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In his first ever lecture/workshop weekend at The Center and Trinity Cathedral, Bishop Griswold will introduce us to the challenge of reading scripture, given our current culture. In the Saturday workshop, he will introduce us to the spiritual disciplines of St. Ignatious and the Desert fathers and mothers. Suggesting that these, along with the study of scripture and practice of prayer, are important guides for our life of faith. |
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The Most Rev. Frank Griswold III was the 25th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Ordained an Episcopal priest in 1963, he served at three parishes in Pennsylvania, including St Andrews Church in Yardley, Pennsylvania, and St Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1976 until his nomination as Bishop of Chicago. Bishop Griswold served as bishop of Chicago from 1987 until he became presiding bishop in 1997. Bishop Griswold was co-chair of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission from 1998 to 2003, and a member of the standing committee for the 1998 Lambeth Conference. He has also served on diocesan, national and international committees for liturgy, worship and ecumenism. He is also a member of the Fellowship of the Society of St John the Evangelist and is known to have Anglo-Catholic tendencies. His term as presiding bishop ended on November 1, 2006. He was replaced by the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first woman primate in the Anglican Communion. It is an honor to have him speak at Trinity.
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The Rev. Herbert O'Driscoll
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Between the fall of the western empire and the emergence of the early middle ages, between a shattered and chaotic continent on one side and a vast unnamed ocean on the other, there flowered in Ireland for a short time a way of Christian faith and community whose integrity and beauty, though forgotten for long periods, never finally disappeared. At Friday’s lecture we will consider the beauty and integrity of that Christian faith. Along with this, we will explore a Christian faith that, up to the middle of the last century, felt at home within western culture. That perception - or was it illusion? - has since left us. In its place we have a world where Christians find themselves questing for what might once again become home. Christians are by no means alone in this experience. As a symptom of our homelessness we have become pilgrims not only geographically but also historically. When Barbara Tuchman, the eminent American historian, was asked why she titled her great book on the 14th Century, A Distant Mirror, she said she felt that the 14th century was a distant mirror of her own 20th century. Within the limitations of any historical parallel, it may be possible to say that the 5th Century world of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic can be seen as a distant mirror of our 21st century experience. All exploring of the past is a manifestation of some aspects of our present needs and longings. As others before us, we know that we cannot live in the world without a spiritual dimension to our lives. As we seek to build a house for the contemporary Christian soul, what may be the building blocks of that house? And when we have attempted to build such a house, can we find that which will make it a home? All these will be explored in our Saturday workshop with Herbert O’Driscoll. |
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Herbert O’Driscoll, a popular writer on spirituality, pilgrimage leader, and preacher, is a former Warden of the College of Preachers who has served Anglican churches in Canada. He is author of some 36 books including The Psalms: Finer than Gold, Sweeter than Honey, Living Scripture: The Guidance of God on the Journey of Life and The Road to Donaguile: A Celtic Spiritual Journey. His work is widely used by clergy and lay readers in homiletic preparation and his hymns are published in hymnbooks in Canada, Ireland, England, the United States and mainland China. He has prepared television scripts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for many years hosted a daily radio program, and has been involved in career development programs for senior Provincial and Federal civil servants. In his retirement years he has continued to write and compose, has traveled widely in the Anglican Communion conducting preaching seminars and conferences as well as continuing to lead pilgrimages to Ireland, Scotland, England and France for the College of the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. He serves as an Honorary staff member of Christ Church Cathedral Victoria B.C. Born, reared, educated and ordained in Ireland, O’Driscoll has always felt a special affinity for those centuries during which Celtic Christianity flowered in the north Atlantic and later in Europe, regarding this period not only as past history but as a chapter of our Christian story that addresses and enriches us today. |
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Diana Butler Bass
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Diana Butler Bass is an author, speaker, and independent scholar specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of six books including the best-selling Christianity for the Rest of Us, released by Harper One in 2006, named as one of the best religion books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Christianity Century it won the Book of the Year Award from the Academy of Parish Clergy, and was featured in a cover story in USA TODAY. She is currently Senior Fellow at the Cathedral College of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Diana regularly consults with religious organizations, leads conferences for religious leaders, and teaches and preaches in a variety of venues. She is currently working on two books. A People’s History of Christianity, a history of Christian spirituality and social justice, is scheduled for March 2009 release from Harper One. Pilgrimage, part of the “Seven Ancient Practices” series, will be published in 2010. From 2002 to 2006, she was the Project Director of a national Lilly Endowment funded study of mainline Protestant vitality—a project featured in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. She serves on the board of directors of the Beatitudes Society, and participates in an advisor for Emergent Village and Synagogue 3000. She is part of Sojourner’s Red Letter Christians and is a regular contributor to the God’s Politics blog on Beliefnet. Diana has taught church history, American religious history, history of Christian thought, religion and politics, and congregational studies. at Westmont College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Macalester College, Rhodes College, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. She has From 1995-2000 she wrote a weekly column on American religion for the New York Times Syndicate. She has written widely in the religious press, including Sojourners, Christian Century, Clergy Journal, and Congregations. She has appeared on CNN, PBS, FOX, and NPR. Diana’s other books include The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church, lauded as one of the most important books on mainline Protestantism in the last two decades, From Nomads to Pilgrims: Stories from Practicing Congregations, Broken We Kneel: Reflections on Faith and Citizenship, Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community, and Standing Against the Whirlwind: Evangelical Episcopalians in 19th Century America. Two of her books have been nominated for the Louisville Grawemeyer Award.
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Frederick M. Denny
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Frederick M. Denny is professor of Islamic studies and the history of religions at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author of, An Introduction to Islam, and has published numerous articles on various aspects of Qur’anic studies.
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James Finley
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Friday evening's lecture will be an introduction to the practice of Christian meditation and the journey the practitioner takes from reading scripture to discursive meditation to a deeper prayer life to contemplation. Saturday's workshop will explore the teachings of the mystics will serve as our guide in exploring meditation (contemplative prayer) in the Christian tradition. An emphasis will be given to meditation as a grounding place for learning to live a more contemplative way of life in the midst of today's world. Time will be given for group meditation, personal reflection and discussion of the themes presented. The topics covered in the workshop include:
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James Finley has been a student of contemplative prayer for more than 20 years, six of which he spent at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where he studied with Thomas Merton. He is the author of several books, including The Contemplative Heart, and his teachings are also available on CDs. Now a clinical psychologist in California, Finley leads meditation workshops and retreats throughout North America. |
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