Ministers Week 2010
February 8 – 11, 2010

Wells Sermons (Feb. 8-10)
Sharon Watkins, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

McFadin Lectures (Feb. 9)
Warren Carter, Professor of
New Testament, Brite Divinity School

Davis Workshop in Ministry (Feb. 10)
Diana Butler Bass, Author of Christianity for the Rest of Us and A People’s History of Christianity

Scott Lectures (Feb. 11) – William Paul Young,
Author of The Shack

Organ Recital & Concert (Feb. 9)
Olivier Latry, Titular Organist, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

All events held at University Christian Church
Lectures and workshops are free but pre-registration is strongly recommended due to limited seating.

The Shack: Is God Really This Good
William Paul Young, Author of The Shack

February 11, 2010
Ed Landreth Auditorium, Texas Christian University

The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:00 -8:30 pm
Kelly Alumni Center

Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Searching for Meaning: Reading the Lord’s Prayer Closely
The Third Jean and Parker F. Wilson Seminar,
The Stalcup School Of Theology For The Laity

Saturday, February 27, 2010
Northway Christian Church, Dallas

Francisco Lozada, Jr., Associate Professor of New Testament and Latina/o Church Studies, Brite Divinity School

Exploring the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4 from a variety of critical perspectives, ranging from the Lord’s Prayer’s earliest version, history on how the Lord’s Prayer came about, and its literary and theological background to the more contemporary perspectives relating to social justice and liberation reflected in the Lord’s Prayer. Framing the course is the theological question of how should Christians read the Lord’s Prayer? And what does the Lord’s Prayer teach us about how to engage global issues?

Implications of Our Images of Jesus
The Third Jean and Patrick Henry, Jr. Seminar,
The Stalcup School Of Theology For The Laity

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Northway Christian Church, Dallas

Rodney S. Sadler, Jr., Associate Professor of Bible, Union Presbyterian Seminary

What did Jesus look like? Why does it matter how he is portrayed through images? Though common, our depictions of Jesus are often unquestioned and convey a great deal of unexamined messages when used in worship and teaching.

Journeys Within and Without: The Theme of Journey and Quest in Religion and Literature
The Fourth Fay and Alfred C. Grosse Seminar on Religion and the Literary Arts, The Stalcup School Of Theology For The Laity

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Northway Christian Church, Dallas

Stephanie Paulsell, Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies, Harvard Divinity School

St. Augustine once famously named restlessness as central to what it means to be human. “You have made us for yourself,” Augustine writes to God in his Confessions, “and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” In this course, we will explore how literary artists from many times and places have explored the deeply human, deeply religious enterprise that emerges from this restlessness — the enterprise of making journeys and embarking on quests.