The 2012 Spring Convocation, "Getting Greener Faithfully" will be held April 17-18, 2012

Details are coming soon. 
 

The 2011 Spring Convocation, "We Tell to Love the Story"

was held May 3 & 4, 2011

All presentations are open and free to the public. Questions? Call 717.338.3011 or email ngarretson@Ltsg.edu for information.

Featured speakers are Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Christopher Hedges (pictured right, author of I Don't Believe in Atheists), Kathryn Vitalis Hoffman, and Marty Stevens.

This Convocation will also include within it, a focus upon the life and work of Bertha Paulssen, the annual Alumni/ae Banquet, and more. 
  
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Schedule for Tuesday, May 3rd and 4th: 

Tuesday, May 3

Morning pre-event of the Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic: Topic: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg

11:55 AM Chapel

12:15 PM Lunch in the Refectory

12:15 PM Alumnae Lunch: Now we’re 40, what’s the story?  Female graduates of all LTSG degree programs are invited to  lunch with table talk  to debrief the 40th anniversary year (2010) of Lutheran women’s ordination in the US, and look ahead to future challenges and celebrations.  Valentine 206

1:15-2:30 PM Faculty Book Chat:  members of the faculty will be available in the Coffee Shop for conversation about current essential reading in their fields. 

3:00-4:30 PM  Our  Paulssen Years: a Roundtable Discussion  Moderator Ed Sites and a few of Bertha Paulssen’s former students will prime the pump for  wider discussion of the formative dimensions of the seminary’s “Paulssen Years. ” All are invited, especially  Paulssen’s former students.

4:15 PM Reception and book-signing in Beekman Common

6:00 PM Alumni Banquet in Refectory
or
7:00 PM (alternative to Refectory Banquet): Dessert, music and wine in Val. 206

7:45PM Distinguished Alumni Awards in the Church of the Abiding Presence
• Lifetime Service: Donald Main
• Special Service: Judith Simonson
• Parish Ministry: Judith Cobb

 

Wednesday, May 4: We Tell to Love the Story

9:00 AM Opening Eucharist: Dr. Theodore F. Schneider,’59, retired Bishop of Metro DC Synod, preaching, Dr. Nelson Strobert,’72, presiding

10:30 AM Dr. Marty Stevens, LTSG Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Stewardship
Scripts in Scripture: Varied Voices in the Greatest Story Ever Told
Readers have long noted the complex interweaving of multiple authors, genres, and socio-historical contexts in Bible stories. The presentation will explore how this complexity addresses ancient contexts of faith by advancing particular theological agendas

Noon: Lunch options—in Refectory or with Reunion classes in Dobbin House

2:00 PM Dr. Christopher Lynn Hedges, M.Div. Harvard, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist

Lecture in celebration of the inauguration of the Theodore F. Schneider Fund for Homiletics Empire of Illusion: An exploration of what can happen in our image-based culture when community narratives get replaced by emotionally driven scenarios that foster a frightening historical amnesia.

3:00 PM Dr. Kathryn Vitalis Hoffman, Senior Pastor, Zion, Middletown, MD

Story Brokering as an Approach to Ministry
With a panel of the speakers and congregational leaders, the role of leader as story broker will be explored as a way to give voice to the narrative of God’s work in the world today. In this session panelists will discuss the importance of excavating, exposing, and illuminating God’s story in the many intersecting stories that emerge at the crossroads.

4:00 PM  Reception in celebration of the Theodore F. Schneider Fund for Homiletics

 

Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quotation from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quotation reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."

Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).

In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He is currently the F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor in American Studies, Centre for the Study of the United States at The University of Toronto. He writes a weekly column on Mondays for Truthdig and is married to the Canadian actress Eunice Wong. 
 

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CHRISTOPHER HEDGES is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. His most recent book is Death of the Liberal Class (2010).