The spring ECCT Clergy Day will be held on June 8 at Christ Church Cathedral, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Registration is
here.
As a part of their annual conference, members of the Society of Scholar Priests will be hosting the morning portion of the Clergy Day. (
Link here for more info on the conference.) Come join clergy colleagues from ECCT and the Society of Scholar Priests for a day discussing Theological Imagination and Ministry:
"Worship is an act of poetic imagination that aims to reconstrue the world. By the phrase, "act of imagination," I mean it presents lived reality in images, figures, and metaphors that defy our conventional structures of plausibility and that host alternative scenarios of reality that cut beyond our conventional perceptual field. This act of imagination that offers an alternative world is, perforce, a poetic act; that is, it is given to us in playful traces and hints that come at us sideways and that do not conform to any of our usual categories of understanding or explanation.
"The practice of such poetic imagination that invites us playfully to alternative reality is deeply rooted in old texts, old memories, and old practices; but it requires contemporary, disciplined, informed imagination to sustain alternative vision." (Brueggemann,
Disruptive Grace, p. 226)
Outline of the Day
- 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
- 9:00 a.m. Panel Presentation: "Inhabiting a Theological Imagination"
- 9:30 a.m. Facilitated Discussion Groups at Tables
- 11:30 a.m. Eucharist
- 12:30 p.m. Lunch
- 1:30 p.m. Clergy Discussion with Bishops of ECCT
- 2:30 p.m. Depart
Panelists: the Rev. Joel Daniels, Ph.D.; the Rev. Robyn King; the Rev. Lyndon Shakespeare, Ph.D.
Joel Daniels
serves as the associate for Evangelism at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in NYC. Joel is also a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion, assistant editor of the journal Religion, Brain & Behavior, and a visiting scholar at Boston University, from which he received his doctorate in 2014. His book Theology, Tragedy, and Suffering in Nature: Toward a Realist Doctrine of Creation was published in 2016, and his articles have appeared in the Anglican Theological Review and the Journal of Ecumenical Studies. He serves on the Ecumenical Commission of the Diocese of New York, focusing on dialogue with the Eastern churches. In addition to Boston University, he is also a graduate of the General Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Joel serves on the Board of the Society of Scholar Priests.
Robyn King
has a BA in History from the University of Montana and a Master of Divinity from The General Theological Seminary of The Episcopal Church. Before becoming rector of St Peter's Anglican Church in the Diocese of Edmonton she served as the rector of a cluster of three small Churches in Montana and interim Camp Director for the Diocese of Montana.
Robyn serves on the Board of the Society of Scholar Priests.
Robyn's writings may be found online at:
Lyndon Shakespeare
has served parishes in Washington, DC, Virginia, New Jersey, and Long Island. From 2011-2013, Lyndon was the Director of Program and Ministry at Washington National Cathedral. As a scholar-priest, he teaches and publishes in the areas of theological anthropology and ecclesiology. His Ph.D. thesis, written while as a member of the Archbishop's Examination in Theology, has been published in the Veritas series of Cascade Books with the title,
Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management
. He currently serves as chair of the Society of Scholar-Priests which fosters and supports scholarly-minded priests in their vocation to serve in parish and teaching ministries.
To Register for Clergy Day, please visit:
