Conference: “Love bade me welcome”
Bringing Poetry into the Life of Your Church
May 12 - 14, 2015
TUESDAY, MAY 12 | Yale Divinity School | 409 Prospect Street, New Haven
3:15pm – Bus leaves hotel for Yale ISM-Divinity School
3:00-4:30 – Conference check-in
4:30-4:45 – Welcome & Orientation
4:45- 5:45 – PLENARY #1 (Keynote): Christian Wiman | “When You Consider the Radiance: Poetry for Preachers and Prophets”
6:00-7:00 – Dinner Reception
7:15-8:15 – Evening Worship led by Maggi Dawn
____
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 | Yale Divinity School | 409 Prospect Street, New Haven
8:30 am – Bus leaves hotel for Yale ISM. Continental breakfast in Common Room.
9:15–10:00 – GUIDED MEDITATION led by Janet Ruffing
10:00-10:30 – Coffee break
10:30-11:30 – WORKSHOPS #1
- Maggi Dawn | “Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Integrating Poetry and Song Lyric into Worship”
- David Mahan | “’all that beauty comes home’: Teaching Faith through Verse”
- Thomas Troeger | “Cultivating the Landscape of the Heart: How to Nurture the Poetic Imagination for Preaching”
12-1:00pm – LUNCH
1:15-2:15 – PLENARY #2: Thomas Troeger | “Wonder Reborn: the Theological Necessity of Poetry in a Lopsided Culture”
2:15-2:45 – Coffee break
3:00-4:00 – WORKSHOPS #2
- Christian Wiman | “Reading Poetry as an Act of Faith”
- Janet Ruffing | “Poetry as an Opening to the Mystical?”
- David Mahan | “ ‘all that beauty comes home’: Teaching Faith through Verse”
4:15-5:15 – WORSHIP led by Maggi Dawn
5:30 – Bus leaves for hotels, downtown
____
THURSDAY, MAY 14 | St. Thomas More | 268 Park Street, New Haven
8:30–9:00am – Continental breakfast served
9:00-10:00 – WORKSHOPS #3
- Maggi Dawn | “Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs: Integrating Poetry and Song Lyric into Worship”
- David Mahan | “’all that beauty comes home’: Teaching Faith through Verse”
- Thomas Troeger | “Cultivating the Landscape of the Heart: How to Nurture the Poetic Imagination for Preaching”
10:00-10:30 – Coffee break
10:30-11:30 – PLENARY #3: “Spirit & Muse” An open conversation moderated by David Mahan
11:30-12pm – GUIDED MEDITATION led by Janet Ruffing
12:00pm – Conference ends
<<BACK to conference home
Map of conference locations