Who Do You Say "I Am": Getting Honest about God Today
Crossings Second International Conference
St. Louis, MO
October 19-22, 2008
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| Monday | |
| 8:30-5:00 | Workshop I: Digging for the Gospel: A Workshop in Six-Step Crossings Methodology. |
| | Facilitators: Jerome Burce & the Crossings Writing Team |
| | Workshop II: The Heart of Bertram's Theology: A Study of "A Time for Confessing" and "Postmodernity's Crux" |
| | Facilitators: Michael Hoy and Edward Schroeder |
| Afternoon | Conference Check-In |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner and Introductions |
| 7:30 p.m. | Evening Prayer |
| 8:00 p.m. | Wine and Cheese Reception w/ Bertram Book Signing |
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| Tuesday | |
| 7:45 a.m. | Morning Prayer |
| 8:15 a.m. | Keynote: Steven Kuhl | - | Abraham's Paradoxical God: Fearing and Trusting the God Who Promises to Save Us from God's Self |
| 9:30 a.m. | Sherman Lee | - | "god" and God in Pop Culture |
| | John Strelan | - | Singing God's Tune when the Audience has turned its Back |
| | Fred Niedner | - | America's God: YHWH, Baal, or Golden Calf? |
| | Jerome Burce | - | Six Steps Through a Text: A Thumbnail Review |
| 11:00 a.m. | Michael Hoy | - | Being Honest about God in Times of Confessing: Insights from Bertram |
| | Gary Simpson | - | What Does God Require, Do, and Promise when the U.S.A. Holds Elections? |
| | Philip Kuehnert | - | The Question of God in Pastoral Care |
| | Edward Schroeder | - | Reading Real Life through the Six Step Lens |
| 1:45 p.m. | Keynote: John Strelan | - | "And there's no other God": Being Honest-to-God about God |
| 3:15 p.m. | Marcus Felde | - | Is the Lord's Prayer Christian? |
| | Jakka Kaarianen | - | Missio as Promissio: Lutheran Missiology Confronts the Challenge of Religious Pluralism |
| | Stephen Krueger | - | Encountering God at the End of Life |
| | Lori Cornell | - | The Six-Step Parish Practitioner |
| 4:30 p.m. | Round Table |
| 7:30 p.m. | Eucharist (Jerome Burce, Preacher) |
| 8:30 p.m. | Reception |
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| Wednesday | |
| 7:45 a.m. | Worship |
| 8:15 a.m. | Keynote: Mary Sue Dreier | - | Missional God Outside the Box |
| 9:30 a.m. | Robin Morgan | - | Confessions of the Lutheran Risk-Taker: Living Care and Redemption in the 21st Century |
| | Kit Kleinhans | - | Discipleship and Equipping the Saints |
| | Edward Schroeder | - | Crossings Theology for Missions |
| | Steven Kuhl | - | Six Steps to Worship of the Great "I AM" |
| 11:00 a.m. | Round Table (with lunch) |
| 12:15 p.m. | Prayer and Godspeed |
