Higher Learning. Real Experience. Vital Ministry.

Schedule of Events

Monday, February 6      
Monday programs meet in Hughes-Trigg Student Center.
1:00 pm    Registration Opens
1:30    Opening Worship
2:30              

Martin Lecture
Vital Congregations in the Age of Branding
Thomas Frank

4:00  

Afternoon Break

4:15 Fondren Lecture
Aldersgate and Kingswood:
A Wesleyan Missional Paradigm for the Local Church
Jeremy Basset
6:00   Distinguished Alumnus Dinner
Rev. Dr. M. Mouzon Biggs Jr., Perkins Class of 1965
Senior Pastor, Boston Avenue UMC, Tulsa, OK
Tuesday, February 7
Tuesday daytime programs meet in the Hughes-Trigg Student Center.
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00

Peyton Lecture
Prophetic Preaching Now and Always
William Bobby McClain

10:45 The Women’s Lectureship
Leading for a New Church
Bishop Janice Riggle Huie
12:45 pm The Barton Lecture and Luncheon
A Framework for Developing Hispanic Ministry:
A Conversation
Hugo Magallanes and Ruben Saenz
3:00 Small Group Sessions/Workshops
4:30 Afternoon Break
4:45 Afternoon Lecture
Christianity After Religion: Exploring the 3Bs of Faith: Belief, Behavior, and Belonging, Part I
Diana Butler Bass
6:15 Dinner on your own
Tuesday evening program meets in the Owen Arts Center, Caruth
Auditorium.
8:00    Faculty Recital
Job, composed by Petr Eben (1929-2007)
Organist: Christopher Anderson
Associate Professor of Sacred Music
Narrator: John Holbert
Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics
Made possible in part by the Jackson Lecture Endowment 
     
Wednesday, February 8
Wednesday programs begin in the Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall.    
7:30 am Dean’s Breakfast
Speaker: Steve Rankin
Recognition of reunion classes of 2011 through 2007, 2002, 1997, 1992, 1987, 1972, 1962 and earlier years
Wednesday lecture and worship conducted in Perkins Chapel.     
9:30             Morning Lecture
Christianity After Religion: Exploring the 3Bs of Faith: Belief,
Behavior, and Belonging,
Part II
Diana Butler Bass
11:30    Seminary Closing Worship with Rev. Dr. William Bobby McClain
Immortal Tidings in Mortal Hands
Ministers Week Adjourns

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