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Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel
Sunday, March 11, 2012
3 PM: When Spiritual but Not Religious is Not Enough: The Limits of Taste
7:30 PM: When Spiritual but Not Religious is Not Enough: Finding God in Unexpected Places, Even the Church
First Presbyterian Church, 302 W. Whitner Street, Anderson, S. C. 29621
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Lillian Daniel has served as the Senior Minister of the First Congregational
Church of Glen Ellyn, since 2004. Before that, she spent fourteen years in
Connecticut, going to grad school, growing up, raising a family and leading
two churches, most recently the Church of the Redeemer, in New Haven,
from 1996-2004. She is the author of the book Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming
the Practice of Testimony, which is the story of one church’s attempt to get
main line Protestants to talk to each other about God.Her newest book, This
Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers,
co-authored by Martin B. Copenhaver is a humorous and honest look at the
ministry.
Lillian also hosts the Chicago based public television program “30 Good Minutes,” which airs on Sundays at5 pm on WTTW channel 11. You can also watch the show on line at 30goodminutes.org.
A editor at large for the Christian Century Magazine, and a contributing editor at Leadership, her work has also appeared in The Huffington Post, Christianity Today, Leadership Journal, Books and Culture, The Journal for Preachers and in the daily email devotionals available at ucc.org, with over 15,000 subscribers.
She has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School, Chicago Theological Seminary, and the University of Chicago Divinity School.
She serves on the Board of Trustees of Chicago Theological Seminary and the Board of Advisors at Yale Divinity School. In October 2010 she received the distinguished alumni award from Yale Divinity School for “Distinction in Congregational Ministry.”
A frequent speaker around the country, in the last year, Lillian has preached at the National Cathedral, Duke Chapel, and the Festival of Homiletics and delivered preaching lectures to clergy at Kings College, London and Queen’s College, Ontario.
Lillian is married to Lou Weeks, a labor union organizer who chose not to take her name when they got married back in 1991. She is the mother of two teenagers, Calvin and Abigail Weeks
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John Shelby Spong
The Fourth Gospel – Tale of a Jewish Mystic
August 4, 2012:
Lecture 1 at 3 PM: Separating the Fourth Gospel from the Synoptics — Mark,
Matthew and Luke
Lecture 2 at 7:30 PM: The Crucifixion in John: The time of Jesus’ Glorification.
Clemson United Methodist Church
300 Frontage Road
Clemson, South Carolina
Bishop John Spong was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, NJ for 24 years before his retirement in 2001. A fearless supporter for church reform, he is known internationally as a speaker and author. His books, which include Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World (2011) and A New Christ for a New World (2002), and have sold over a million copies.
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James Carroll
September 30, 2012, 3 pm and 7:30 pm, place TBA
James Carroll is a distinguished scholar-in-residence at Suffolk University and a weekly columnist for the Boston Globe. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969 and served as chaplain of Boston University. Carroll left the priesthood to write full-time and is the author of ten novels and six works of non-fiction, including Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World (2011) and Constantine’s Sword (2001), which was made into a documentary film. His memoir, An American Requiem, was the 1996 National Book Award winner.