MONDAY, MAY 19, 2008
(Central Lutheran Church)
2:00 PM Registration
6:30 PM Concert: National Lutheran Choir
7:00 PM Worship, Sermon: Anna Carter Florence, “The Fight Before Dinner”
Liturgist: Anthony D. Bailey
Organist: Mark Sedio
7:45 PM Lecture: Thomas Long
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008
(Central Lutheran Church)
8:45 AM Worship, Sermon: Thomas Long
Music: Bread for the Journey; Organist: Mark Sedio
9:45 AM Lecture: Barbara Lundblad, “Jeremiah, Martin, and Me”
11:00 AM Lecture: Anna Carter Florence, "Your Preacher on a Platter (with parsley and mint jelly): Another Take on Sacrifice and the Lamb of God"
1:30 PM Worship, Sermon: Michael Curry, “There is Power in the Dream”
Music: Bread for the Journey; Organist: Mark Sedio
2:30 PM Lecture: Michael Curry, “I Love to Tell the Story”
4:00 PM Video: Garrison Keillor, “Preaching in Lake Wobegon”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Great Hall) Sign-Up
5:00 PM Video: Fred Craddock, “Preaching in Blue Ridge, Georgia”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Great Hall) Sign-Up
4:30-6:00 PM Reception for Luther Seminary Alumni
(Location: Downtown Hilton, Nicollet Room)
7:00 PM Concert: Prudence Johnson
7:30 PM Storytelling: Walter Wangerin, Jr., “A Touch, A Word, A Barley Cake”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008*
(Central Lutheran Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church)
8:45 AM Worship, Sermon: Carol Miles, “Don’t Forget Your Compass”
Liturgist: Karoline Lewis
Organist: Mark Sedio
Vocals: Jearlyn Steele
(Central Lutheran Church)
9:45 AM Lecture: Walter Brueggemann, “A Life and Time Other than Our Own”
(Central Lutheran Church)
10:30 AM Refreshments sponsored by Luther Seminary
(Central Lutheran Fellowship Hall)
Vocal: Beth Nielsen Chapman
11:00 AM Lecture: Jim Wallis
(Central Lutheran Church)
1:00-3:00 PM Neshama: Visions of the Soul, Artists Available for Tours
(The Westminster Gallery)
1:30 PM Worship, Sermon: Mark Hanson, “Unchained”
Liturgist: David von Schlichten
Organist: Mark Sedio
(Central Lutheran Church)
2:30 PM Lecture: Christine Smith, “Prophetic Preaching: Breaking Homiletic Decorum”
(Central Lutheran Church)
3:30 PM Video: Garrison Keillor, “Preaching in Lake Wobegon”
(Central Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall) Sign-Up
4:30 PM Video: Fred Craddock, “Preaching in Blue Ridge, Georgia”
(Central Lutheran Church) Sign-Up
7:30 PM Worship, Sermon: Otis Moss, Jr.
Organist: Melanie Ohnstad
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
*Wednesday Options:
1:15-2:25 PM “Writers in the Round” Barbara Brown Taylor (Sermon Writer), Nora Gallagher (Novel Writer), Walter Wangerin, Jr. (Novel Writer), and Beth Nielsen Chapman (Song Writer)
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Sanctuary) Sign-Up
2:45 PM “Enlivening the Sermon: Writer’s Wisdom for Preachers” Barbara Brown Taylor assisted by Nora Gallagher
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Sanctuary) Sign-Up
7:00 PM Video: Garrison Keillor, “Preaching in Lake Wobegon”
(Central Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall) Sign-Up
8:00 PM Video: Fred Craddock, “Preaching in Blue Ridge, Georgia”
(Central Lutheran Church) Sign-Up
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008*
(Central Lutheran Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church)
8:45 AM Worship, Sermon: Michael Slaughter, “Reclaiming the Mission of Jesus”
Liturgist: Safiyah Fosua
Organist: Mark Sedio
(Central Lutheran Church)
9:45 AM Lecture: William Willimon, “The Homiletical Virture of Bewilderment”
(Central Lutheran Church)
11:00 AM Worship, Sermon: Barbara Brown Taylor, “Go Therefore and Make Disciples”
Liturgist: Rina Terry; Organist: Mark Sedio
Music: Butch Thompson and Mark Sedio
(Central Lutheran Church)
12:30-2:30 PM Neshama: Visions of the Soul, Artists Available for Tours
(The Westminster Gallery)
1:30 PM Concert: Butch Thompson
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
2:30 PM Worship, Sermon: Zan Holmes, “When the Spirit Moves the People”
Liturgist: Rina Terry
Organist: Melanie Ohnstad
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
3:30 PM Video: Garrison Keillor, “Preaching in Lake Wobegon”
(Central Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall) Sign-Up
4:30 PM Video: Fred Craddock, “Preaching in Blue Ridge, Georgia”
(Central Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall) Sign-Up
OR
4:00 PM Video: Garrison Keillor, “Preaching in Lake Wobegon”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Great Hall) Sign-Up
5:00 PM Video: Fred Craddock, “Preaching in Blue Ridge, Georgia”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Great Hall) Sign-Up
7:30 PM Beth Nielsen Chapman and Naomi Tutu, “Stepping Out in Faith”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
* Thursday Options:
8:45 AM “Preaching through Resistance (With the Help of Matthew),” Barbara Lundblad
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Sanctuary) Sign-Up
“The Sin of Homiletical Arrogance,” Zan Holmes
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Chapel) Sign-Up
“The 8-Hour Sermon,” Mary Hinkle Shore
(Westminster Presbyterian Church Great Hall) Sign-Up
10:00 AM Michael Slaughter, “The Missional Church”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church, Meisel Room) Sign-Up
1:30-3:30 PM Christine Smith, “Preaching Ecological Justice: Prophets On Behalf of Creation”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church, Meisel Room) Sign-Up
Frederick Gaiser, “The Shape of the Text and the Shape of the Sermon" (Westminster Presbyterian Church Chapel) Sign-Up
1:30 PM William Willimon, “Adventures in Preaching with Matthew”
(Central Lutheran Church)
2:30 PM Nora Gallagher: “Finding the Thread: Faith and the Practice of Writing”
(Central Lutheran Church)
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2008*
(Central Lutheran Church and Westminster Presbyterian Church)
8:45 AM Worship, Sermon: Mary Hinkle Shore, “Sleuths for Jesus”
Liturgist: Gayle Bintliff
Music: Beth Nielsen Chapman
Organist: Melanie Ohnstad
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
9:00-11:00 AM Neshama: Visions of the Soul, Artists Available for Tours
(The Westminster Gallery)
9:45 AM Lecture: David Lose, “Preaching at the End of the World (as we know it)”
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
11:00 AM Worship and The Lord’s Supper, Sermon: Frederick Gaiser, “Someone There is That Doesn’t Love a Wall”
Organist: Melanie Ohnstad
(Westminster Presbyterian Church)
12:00 PM Closing
* Friday Options:
8:45 AM “Creative Worship and Preaching with Image,” Midnight Oil Productions:Len Wilson and Jason Moore
(Central Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall) Sign-Up
*** All of the Above is subject to minor change.
Westminster Gallery Tours
There will be 1 or more artists in the gallery during the stated times to answer questions and offer an impromptu tour that will vary according to the visitor's interest and questions. The tour is not scripted in advance.)
WORKSHOP AND PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS
“Adventures in Preaching with Matthew”
A Workshop by William Willimon
Matthew’s gospel is prescribed this year, Year A, in the Lectionary. We will explore some of the adventure of working with Matthew in preaching in Year A.
“A Life and Time Other Than Our Own”
Lectured by Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann will consider a memory of grace and a hope of shalom and the “in-between” of obedience.
“Stepping Out In Faith”
Presented by Naomi Tutu and Beth Nielsen Chapman
Naomi Tutu and Beth Nielsen Chapman will conduct a presentation together on the power of dropping into the heart and listening to the guiding voice of spirit. Beth’s songs, interspersed with story and insights from Beth and Naomi, will explore both creative expression and preaching from the perspective of Divinity in action. In the process of song-writing, Beth describes the moment of inspiration as “lift off”, or a feeling like “divine intervention.” In preparing to preach, Naomi’s approach is to “read and reread whatever the selected texts are for that day and listen to what they say to me,” and then to put them away and find the thread from the center of the heart and follow it. This method of opening up to trust in the guidance of spirit is empowering and allows for the greatest sense of free flowing creative expression.
“The 8-Hour Sermon.”
A Workshop by Mary Hinkle Shore
This workshop introduces a method of sermon preparation that gives focused attention to four elements: the discovery of an insight from a biblical text, the development of that discovery into substantive sermon material, the design of a sermon based on textual discovery made, and preparation for delivery. We will explore how all of this can be accomplished in about
eight hours a week.
