Spring 2010 Lectures & Lecture Series
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Mondays, February 1, 8, + 15, 7-8:30 pm at the Center for Christian Study
For Nurture and Distribution:
The Fruit of the Spirit and Human Maturity |
What does human maturity look like? And how, in the Christian story, does maturity connect to spirituality and relationships? One Biblical picture of human maturity is the fruit of the Spirit, described by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Galatians. This study will examine Paul's discussion of the fruit and set that discussion within the larger Scriptural story about fruit-bearing and maturity. We'll consider the apostle's vision of spiritual nurture and the role of the fruit in relationships that feed one another.
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Wes Zell is the Director of Undergraduate Ministries and Educational Ministries at the Study Center. He is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary in St.Louis, where he received his masters of divinity degree. He earned his bachelor's degree from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. During his final year in seminary, Wes worked at the Sunshine Mission, a homeless shelter and community outreach center near downtown St. Louis. He is married to Amy Zell, Director of Counselng Resources, and they have two sons, Elias and Griffin.
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Audio Note: Because this lecture was cancelled, audio is not yet available. However, Wes will be giving this lecture series again to students May 17-21 and audio will be available shortly afterward. |
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Friday, February 12, 7-8:30 pm at the Center for Christian Study
Beyond Addiction: Why Self-Help is Not Enough
An extra lecture as part of the Beauty and the Body Seminar. This session is open to men and women of all ages. |
During our time together we will consider the lies we tell about addiction and the truth about redemption. We will explore why we are prone to addiction- to make one thing in our lives more central than it should be- and how we can break free of our compulsions. Our time will invite you to see your own story more clearly, to love boldly, and receive love in return. It will be an evening that invites you to the freedom of redemption.
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Sharon Hersh is a licensed professional counselor from Lone Tree, Colorado, and author of many books, including The Last Addiction: Why Self-Help is Not Enough, and Mom, I Feel Fat! Becoming You Daughter's Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image. |
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| Wednesday, February 24
at the Center for Christian Study
What the Academy Award Nominees for Best Picture Tell Us About Ourselves
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Drew Trotter has written on film and popular culture for over thirty years in such publications as Books & Culture, Christianity Today and Critique. He teaches a popular seminar for churches and colleges entitled Show and Tell: How to View a Movie Responsibly. A well-respected lecturer and speaker, Drew has also taught at colleges, churches and seminaries throughout the United States and Canada on a wide variety of topics from the cultural impact of Bob Dylan to what the Academy Award nominees for best picture tell us about America. Drew is a father and grandfather, lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife, Marie, and is the Executive Director of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers.
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Wednesday, March 24, 7:30 pm, at Random Row Books on Main Street
Easter History and Easter Faith: The Resurrection of Jesus According to the Early Church
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The Resurrection of Jesus is the ground of Christian belief and the
well-spring from which the books of the New Testament flow. This lecture
will discuss how the Resurrection was understood in the early Church, the
way Easter was celebrated, how it was preached, and its significance for
Christian teaching.
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Robert Wilken is the William R. Kenan Professor of Christian History at the University of Virginia (emeritus). He is the author of several books on early Christian history and theology, including Remembering the Christian Past, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought, and The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. He is formerly president of the American Academy of Religion. |
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Mondays, April 5, 12 & 19, 7-8:30 pm at the Center for Christian Study
unReconstructed, unReconciled:Race, Politics, Church and Forgiveness After the Civil War |
What went on in American churches after the Civil War? How did white and African-American churches respond to Emancipation, and how were the failures of Reconstruction mirrored among Christians? This three-part series will help us better understand the racial divisions that we experience as American Christians by helping us better understand this critical period of American Christianity. We will examine the patterns of Christianity in America that developed in the wake of slavery, while paying close attention to the tools that Christianity provides for understanding and perhaps overcoming ruptures that continue to mark church and society.
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Valerie Cooper is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where she lectures on African American Religious History, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism. |
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Scott Nesbit is the Associate Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond and a PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia. His dissertation focuses on conceptions and practices of forgiveness in the era of the American Civil War and emancipation. |
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Listen to audio from Week 1 of this series (Cooper).
Listen to audio from Week 2 of this series (Nesbit).
Listen to audio from Week 3 of this series (Cooper & Nesbit). Coming soon!
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NEW DATE: Wednesday, April 21, 5:30 pm
at the Center for Christian Study
The New Morality of Food
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Food currently engages our attention in ways that it did not for previous generations. As a nation we are increasingly aware of – and concerned with – where our food comes from and how our food habits affect public health and the environment. Food, in other words, has increasingly acquired a moral dimension, something that involves obligations, ideals, and even felt personal guilt. Mary Eberstadt argues that our new morality of food has replaced other moral frameworks, including the old morality of sex, and that “the norms society imposes on itself in pursuit of its own self-protection do not wholly disappear, but rather mutate and move on, sometimes in curious guises.”
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Mary Eberstadt is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, a contributing writer to First Things magazine, and author most recently of a black comedy called The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism (Ignatius Press).
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