Updated schedule
A few updates have been made to the schedule over the last two weeks. Here is the most up-to-date schedule:
FRIDAY, OCT. 15: RADICAL THEOLOGY IN EMERGING CHRISTIANITY
10 am: “Beating God to Death: Radical Theology & the New Atheism”
Roundtable conversation with Jeffrey Robbins, Christopher Rodkey and professors from Drury’s department of philosophy and religion
11 am: “An Emerging Radical Theology: On Politics and Ecclesiology”
Jeffrey Robbins and Christopher Rodkey
12 pm: Lunch (on your own)
1 pm: “The Emerging Church 101: An introduction for those new to the conversation”
Gary Black
2 pm: “To Believe Is Human, to Doubt Divine: Introducing Zizek’s Christology”
Peter Rollins
3 pm: “An Emerging A/Theistic Fighting Collective? A Caputian Introduction to Žižek’s Pneumatology”
Katharine Moody
4 pm: “Just Us: The undeconstructible Christ community in the age that is passing away”
Carl Raschke
7 pm: Keynote presentation I: “Radical Theology—or What’s the Emerging in Emergent?”
John Caputo
8:15 pm: Keynote presentation II
Peter Rollins
9:15 – 10 pm: After Session
Conversation with John Caputo, Peter Rollins, Carl Raschke, Katharine Moody, Jeffrey Robbins & Christopher Rodkey
10:30 pm: Transformance Art with participants from VOID, a collective from Waco, Texas
Creamery Arts Center in Downtown Springfield
SATURDAY, OCT. 16: EMERGING CHRISTIANITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
8 am: Coffee & Bagels
8:30 am: Keynote Presentation III
Karen Ward
10 am: Church practitioners workshop
Peter Rollins & John Caputo
11:30 am: Lunch
On your own unless you registered for the Saturday lunch option (see registration packet for local options)
1 pm: Keynote presentation IV
Karen Ward
2:15 – 3:15 pm & 3:30 – 4:30 pm: Breakout Sessions for Church Practitioners
2:15 – 3:15:
Emily Bowen: “Megachurch or Megasubversion? Transformative Ritual in the Emerging Church”
Chris Rodkey: “Satanism in the Suburbs: Ordination as Insubordination”
Julie Kennedy: “The Open Invitation: Tearing Down Labels at the Door”
Phil Snider: “Preaching After the Death of God: With A Little Help From Derrida & Caputo”
3:30 – 4:30:
Laura Fregin: “Art and Justice in Emergent Communities”
David Weiss: “Putting the ‘Queer’ back in Christianity: How extending a full welcome to LGBT persons reclaims the work of Jesus for today”
Lindsey Arnold: “Messiahs, Monsters & Others: The Search for Christ Figures in the TV Show Lost“
Travis Cooper: “Why the Emergent Church Represents the Culmination of the Azusa Street Revival”
Matt Gallion, Chris Rodkey & Phil Snider: “Why We’re Not Emergent: By Three Guys Who Used to Be”
7 pm: [D]mergent meet-up
Venue TBA
