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Dorothy Bass, Susan Briehl and Don Richter at Holden Village
A Week of Rich Fare at Holden
September 22 - 28, 2008
We are setting the table for conversation, song and feasts of every kind. All are welcome!
Food in the Wilderness
Monday lunch through Thursday lunch
Fred Niedner: Dining and Dying with Christ: Meal Stories for the Year of Mark;
Dorothy Bass: Practicing Our Faith in the Wilderness;
Martin Wells: Water and Rock: A Case Study in a Congregation's Place in the World;
Susan Briehl: A Trinity of Tables: Breaking Bread as a Christian Practice;
Paul Hinderlie: Five Pasta Sauces You Will Meet in Heaven, and some fine meals from Holden's kitchen;
Words in the Wilderness: A Writing Event
Thursday lunch through Sunday lunch
Continue the feast of conversation with Fred, Dorothy, Susan, and Paul, and create, hear, and talk
about new writing with Maren Tirabassi and others.
Music all week with Mary Preus and Tom Witt.
For more information and to register with Holden Village click here.
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Valparaiso Project book on practical theology to be featured at AAR annual meeting in Chicago
Saturday, November 1, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion on For Life Abundant
Practical theology is undertaken within a complex and interdependent ecology that provides the discipline's resources, shapes its agenda, and receives its products. From different locations within this intellectual, ecclesial, cultural, and social ecology, panelists will extend and critique the argument of For Life Abundant: Practical Theology, Theological Education, and Christian Ministry (eds., Dorothy Bass and Craig Dykstra, 2008).
Presiding: Craig Dykstra, Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Panelists: Serene Jones, Union Theological Seminary
Yoland Smith, Yale University
Lillian Daniel, First Congregational Church (UCC)
Responding: John Witvliet, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
[Check this space or the final AAR program book for location. Note: intial AAR publicity incorrectly announced a Friday time for this event] click here to register for the AAR meeting in Chicago.
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New Project Books
Available Now ~ Mission Trips That Matter: Embodied Faith for the Sake of the World ~ by Don C. Richter (Upper Room Books, February 2008)
Explore Christian practices for pondering the body as your group prepares for, engages in, and interprets mission trips and outreach projects.
Order now
Now Available ~ For Life Abundant: Practical Theology, Theological Eduction, and Christian Ministry ~ Dorothy C. Bass and Craig Dykstra, editors (Wm. B. Eerdmans, April 2008)
Theologians and pastors explore practical theology as an indispensable dimension of Christian faith and show how it can clarify and strengthen life-giving ways of life in and for the world.
Order now
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Food & Faith Festival
Highlights
Festival of Food and Faith held
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Participants in the intergenerational workshops created these wonderful banners focusing on "Life Abundant Around Table"
 
Other workshops included a discussion of Just Eating? Practicing Our Faith around the Table.
Download the "Just Eating? Leader's Guide" and "Just Eating? Participant Guide".
You will need the acrobat reader to view these files.
Coming soon - a youth version of this popular program.
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