Saint Michael & All Angels

Distinguished Lecture Series

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Saint Michael is honored to host presentations featuring nationally recognized speakers on current topics at the intersection of our faith and culture. CLICK HERE to make reservations or you may call the Adult Formation Office.

  

October 8 – 9

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine
Listening to the Parables with First Century Ears
Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.

Friday, 7 – 8 p.m. 
Hearing the Parables Anew: The Pearl of Great Price, The Leaven, and The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
$10 per person 

Saturday, 9 a.m. – noon
Revisiting the Jericho Road: The Shock of the Samaritan

Revisiting Family Values: The Provocation of the Prodigal
$10 per person

  

November 13

Dr. Stephen Prothero
Religious Literacy: Home, Church, Classroom and Beyond
Professor of Religion at Boston University, specializing in religion and culture, and the author of God is Not One and Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know — and Doesn’t.

 

10 – 11:30 a.m.
Awareness of how religions form people and give them values is essential for people in their workplaces, families raising their children, travelers in their leisure, and anyone who desires to be in dialogue with the world's people to achieve common goals.
$10 per person

 

April 8 – 9

Brian McLaren 
The Christian Difference
Author, speaker, blogger, and networker among innovative Christian leaders and thinkers. He is author of A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, and A New Kind of Christianity.

 

Friday, 7 – 8 p.m.      
The Gospel of Reconciliation: Seeing Jesus' Gospel of God's Kingdom as global (and personal) Good News
$10 per person

Saturday, 9 a.m. – noon        
The Vital Connection: Becoming people who embody the change the world needs

Practicing Resurrection: How faith transforms lives between Sundays
$10 per person

 

To download a Distinguished Lecture brochure, CLICK HERE.