Offered in partnership with more than 40 Episcopal parishes, "Going Forward Together" will be the theme of two conferences organized to promote health and unity in the Episcopal Church.
Meeting October 24-26 at St. Michael & All Angels Church in Dallas, Texas, and November 7-9 at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, Georgia, the conferences will provide numerous examples of some of the most vibrant ministry taking place in Episcopal parishes across the nation.
Participants will explore "best practices" in parish ministry -- practical, tangible ideas people can take back to their parishes -- encouraging "a renewed sense of health and vitality in the Episcopal Church."
Keynote speakers will include: the Rev. Michael Battle, assistant professor of Spirituality and Black Church Studies at the Divinity School of Duke University; the Bishop Mark Dyer, professor of Systematic Theology and Director of Spiritual Formation at Virginia Theological Seminary; Phyllis Tickle, contributing editor in religion for Publishers Weekly; and the Rev. John Westerhoff, theologian-in-residence at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta.
More than 20 workshops, led by clergy and lay presenters, will cover topics ranging from understanding the church's place in current culture to an examination of the results of the soon-to-be-released Lambeth Commission report.
For further information please call John Gaskill, 901.767.6987, or visit: www.goingforwardtogether.org.
Note: The following title is available from the Episcopal Book Resource Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, NY 10017; 800-334-7626; http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/.
- To Read: REINVENTING ANGLICANISM: A vision of confidence, community and engagement in Anglican Christianity by Bruce Kaye (New York City: Church Publishing, 2003; 278 pages; $25.00.)
From the publisher: "Using the Anglican Church of Australia as a case study, Bruce Kaye argues that Anglicans must give up nostalgic notions of Empire and a colonial past and concentrate on 'reinventing' Anglicanism to emphasize the strengths of its interdependent diversity and cultural pluralism -- vital tools for mission in a world deeply in need of reconciliation."
Bruce Kaye has extensive experience in global Anglicanism. For 10 years he served as General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia and has taught at universities in England and Australia and lectured in Europe and North America. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Anglican Studies.
