A summary of her transition period and status of progress in leading EEC to a New Rector.

This event will be held in the Gallery. 
 

Dr. Brent Laytham, Dean of Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s University. Climate change and a ‘green pope’ are among the reasons Christians have begun to reclaim the importance of the doctrine of creation. Yet we seldom connect that with the gospel word that God has raised “the firstborn of all creation” – Jesus of Nazareth – from death. The Easter season is a good time to consider why creation matters for resurrection, and why resurrection matters for creation.

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As a member of Dwight Eisenhower's staff during WWII, Joel Fisher kept the memos detailing one of the greatest treasure hunts in history. His documents, found by his daughter Susan Sullam, chronicled how Americans located and recovered billions of dollars worth of gold, currency and artworks looted from the homes, museums and churches looted by the Nazis. She became a journalist and has spoken broadly on how the treasure was located and largely returned.

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John Ciccone is President of Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Ciccone will share both research and the experiences of St. Ignatius Loyola Academy’s successful work with counseling boys from low income families through high school and college.

This event will take place in the Gallery. 

A Mystical Lent: Reflections on Writings of History’s Great Mystics, a Three Part Series

MAR 19 – The Desert Fathers
MAR 26 – Dark Ages Mystics Week
APR 2 – The Mystics of the Millennium

Although the subject may sound dry and academic, what we will explore is nothing of the sort. The writings of the mystics give us an invitation to mark Lent and Easter not on the basis of self-abnegation and enumerating our “grievous faults,” but rather as a life discipline in deep exploration of our incarnational relationship with the Creator. Lent is a renewing spiritual practice the doesn’t merely get us through the forty day before Easter. Instead, it welcomes us to join with Christ is our own resurrection from the tombs of human limitations. In a period of a thousand years between the dawn of the Christian church and the hinge-point of the second millennium the theology of the mystics urges us not to be constrained by dogma. Rather, we are invited to deepen relationships as the only means of understanding Jesus, his birth, teachings, suffering, and resurrection, and how to live into this Christian age.
 

This event will take place in the Gallery

A Mystical Lent: Reflections on Writings of History’s Great Mystics, a Three Part Series

MAR 19 – The Desert Fathers
MAR 26 – Dark Ages Mystics Week
APR 2 – The Mystics of the Millennium

Although the subject may sound dry and academic, what we will explore is nothing of the sort. The writings of the mystics give us an invitation to mark Lent and Easter not on the basis of self-abnegation and enumerating our “grievous faults,” but rather as a life discipline in deep exploration of our incarnational relationship with the Creator. Lent is a renewing spiritual practice the doesn’t merely get us through the forty day before Easter. Instead, it welcomes us to join with Christ is our own resurrection from the tombs of human limitations. In a period of a thousand years between the dawn of the Christian church and the hinge-point of the second millennium the theology of the mystics urges us not to be constrained by dogma. Rather, we are invited to deepen relationships as the only means of understanding Jesus, his birth, teachings, suffering, and resurrection, and how to live into this Christian age.
 

This event will take place in the Gallery

A Mystical Lent: Reflections on Writings of History’s Great Mystics, a Three Part Series

MAR 19 – The Desert Fathers
MAR 26 – Dark Ages Mystics Week
APR 2 – The Mystics of the Millennium

Although the subject may sound dry and academic, what we will explore is nothing of the sort. The writings of the mystics give us an invitation to mark Lent and Easter not on the basis of self-abnegation and enumerating our “grievous faults,” but rather as a life discipline in deep exploration of our incarnational relationship with the Creator. Lent is a renewing spiritual practice the doesn’t merely get us through the forty day before Easter. Instead, it welcomes us to join with Christ is our own resurrection from the tombs of human limitations. In a period of a thousand years between the dawn of the Christian church and the hinge-point of the second millennium the theology of the mystics urges us not to be constrained by dogma. Rather, we are invited to deepen relationships as the only means of understanding Jesus, his birth, teachings, suffering, and resurrection, and how to live into this Christian age.
 

This event will take place in the Gallery

Timothy Sabin graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with a major in Latin and completed his graduate studies at Brown University with a degree in Classics. He entered into a 30 year career in Boston in legal administration before moving to Washington DC where he conducted graduate education courses at various institutions as well as produced several classical plays. He also taught Koine Greek to postulants before they entered the seminary, as well as continued his practice of teaching Greek and Latin at other venues. Chaucer’s pilgrims never made it to Canterbury, but all of us will arrive in the Holy City Jerusalem. In these troubled times it seems that all human endeavor fails, yet in Christ it is destined to succeed.

This event will take place in the Gallery. 

On the porch of Lent: search & transition as a spiritual act of discernment.

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"Exploring a Rule of Life Including Spiritual and Christian Disciplines"

Dr. Patricia Fosarelli received her MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a D.Min from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington DC. She currently serves as the Associate Dean at the Ecumenical Institute of Theology where she also teaches practical theology and spirituality. Spiritual disciplines sound hard and unappealing, but they help us grow in our knowledge and love of God. In fact, you might be practicing some already! Find out about new ways that you can grow in your spirituality or improve those disciplines you are already practicing.

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Dr. Steven Fowl is the Chair, Department of Theological Studies at the Loyola University Maryland. He has published widely on New Testament subjects including Pauline studies, and theological interpretation of scripture issues. This talk will look at some of the very simple ways in which we lapse into idolatry and things we might do to combat this.

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Dr. Rhetta Wiley received her bachelor's degree in classical Greek from the University of North Carolina and her doctoral degree from Harvard University's department of near Eastern languages and civilization. She is an associate professor of sacred scripture at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she has taught courses in Hebrew and Christian studies. She also serves as an assisting priest at the Cathedral of the Incarnation.
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Dr. Kenneth Clarke Sr. has been Director of Cornell United Religious Work (CURW) since 2001. He also serves as chair of CURW’s Multifaith Advisory. Fifty years after Dr. King’s most famous anti-war speech, 49 years following his death and 31 years since the first federal holiday honoring his birth, his radical critiques of racism, militarism, and materialism – which he called “demonic triplets: - are largely unknown to many Americans. His embrace of a more militant nonviolent strategy and tactics planned for the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign he did not live to lead are obscured by the haze of history.

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What in the World is the Season of Epiphany?
 From the blessing of home, church, threshold, and candles to focusing on the Baptism of Jesus and the mission of the church. Why this “inbetween” season matters. 
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Advent 2016 - The Center Will Hold, Four Part Series

Timothy Sabin graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with a major in Latin and completed his graduate studies at Brown University with a degree in Classics. He entered into a 30 year career in Boston in legal administration before moving to Washington DC where he conducted graduate education courses at various institutions as well as produced several classical plays. He also taught Koine Greek to postulants before they entered the seminary, as well as continued teaching Greek and Latin in other venues. 

November 27 – Puritan Rust
The history of our founders’ vocation to repair what is wrong becomes itself corrupted, whether in the history of people, nations, or religions. 
December 4 – Puritan Gold
This same history bears eternal witness to the high calling of those who live to set things right. 
December 11 – If You Hear the Dogs, Keep Going
From Henry David Thoreau and Harriet Tubman to Desmond Tutu, we find the powerful testimony of those who will not be confined to the margins: how the pilgrimage of us as individuals joins this holy company. 
December 18 – The Center Will Hold
hen Nature and its component Humankind at last perceive their redemption, they shall find it at the center, where they meet their Christ. We are compelled to the conclusion as a Christian population that there is no margin. There is only the Center, to which we all strive and in which we shall finally rest. The Christian Life is supremely centripetal.

This event will take place in the Gallery

Advent 2016 - The Center Will Hold, Four Part Series

Timothy Sabin graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with a major in Latin and completed his graduate studies at Brown University with a degree in Classics. He entered into a 30 year career in Boston in legal administration before moving to Washington DC where he conducted graduate education courses at various institutions as well as produced several classical plays. He also taught Koine Greek to postulants before they entered the seminary, as well as continued teaching Greek and Latin in other venues. 

November 27 – Puritan Rust
The history of our founders’ vocation to repair what is wrong becomes itself corrupted, whether in the history of people, nations, or religions. 
December 4 – Puritan Gold
This same history bears eternal witness to the high calling of those who live to set things right. 
December 11 – If You Hear the Dogs, Keep Going
From Henry David Thoreau and Harriet Tubman to Desmond Tutu, we find the powerful testimony of those who will not be confined to the margins: how the pilgrimage of us as individuals joins this holy company. 
December 18 – The Center Will Hold
hen Nature and its component Humankind at last perceive their redemption, they shall find it at the center, where they meet their Christ. We are compelled to the conclusion as a Christian population that there is no margin. There is only the Center, to which we all strive and in which we shall finally rest. The Christian Life is supremely centripetal.

This event will take place in the Gallery

Advent 2016 - The Center Will Hold, Four Part Series

Timothy Sabin graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with a major in Latin and completed his graduate studies at Brown University with a degree in Classics. He entered into a 30 year career in Boston in legal administration before moving to Washington DC where he conducted graduate education courses at various institutions as well as produced several classical plays. He also taught Koine Greek to postulants before they entered the seminary, as well as continued teaching Greek and Latin in other venues. 

November 27 – Puritan Rust
The history of our founders’ vocation to repair what is wrong becomes itself corrupted, whether in the history of people, nations, or religions. 
December 4 – Puritan Gold
This same history bears eternal witness to the high calling of those who live to set things right. 
December 11 – If You Hear the Dogs, Keep Going
From Henry David Thoreau and Harriet Tubman to Desmond Tutu, we find the powerful testimony of those who will not be confined to the margins: how the pilgrimage of us as individuals joins this holy company. 
December 18 – The Center Will Hold
When Nature and its component Humankind at last perceive their redemption, they shall find it at the center, where they meet their Christ. We are compelled to the conclusion as a Christian population that there is no margin. There is only the Center, to which we all strive and in which we shall finally rest. The Christian Life is supremely centripetal.

This event will take place in the Gallery

Advent 2016 - The Center Will Hold, Four Part Series

Timothy Sabin graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with a major in Latin and completed his graduate studies at Brown University with a degree in Classics. He entered into a 30 year career in Boston in legal administration before moving to Washington DC where he conducted graduate education courses at various institutions as well as produced several classical plays. He also taught Koine Greek to postulants before they entered the seminary, as well as continued teaching Greek and Latin in other venues. 

November 27 – Puritan Rust
The history of our founders’ vocation to repair what is wrong becomes itself corrupted, whether in the history of people, nations, or religions. 
December 4 – Puritan Gold
This same history bears eternal witness to the high calling of those who live to set things right. 
December 11 – If You Hear the Dogs, Keep Going
From Henry David Thoreau and Harriet Tubman to Desmond Tutu, we find the powerful testimony of those who will not be confined to the margins: how the pilgrimage of us as individuals joins this holy company. 
December 18 – The Center Will Hold
When Nature and its component Humankind at last perceive their redemption, they shall find it at the center, where they meet their Christ. We are compelled to the conclusion as a Christian population that there is no margin. There is only the Center, to which we all strive and in which we shall finally rest. The Christian Life is supremely centripetal.

This event will take place in the Gallery
 

Dr. Patricia Foserelli is Associate Dean of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s University. St. Ignatius was highly intelligent and emotional, and his spirituality reflects both sides of his personality. Find out more about the spirituality that has guided so many people (including the current Pope) over hundreds of years.
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Tom Hall is the Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and the host of “Maryland Morning” and “Choral Arts Classics” on WYPR Radio. Handel’s Messiah is one of the most well known and frequently performed works in the history of Western classical music. It is also one of the most unique. Conceived and structured unlike any of Handel’s other ground-breaking oratorios, its theological and musical sophistication are unparalleled, and its appeal is unrivaled. Tom Hall unravels some commonly held misunderstandings about this great musical masterpiece.
 

This event takes place in the Gallery.