This year's conference features speakers Richard Rohr and Joan Chittister.
Abingdon Episcopal
Church, Gloucester, and Grace Episcopal Church, Yorktown will partner to
present The Trinity Institute 42nd Theological Conference via a
downlink from New York City. The conference begins on Friday, November 9
and continues through November 10. Registration will begin at 5:00 pm
on November 9 at the Abingdon Parish Hall (4645 George Washington
Memorial Hwy), and the conference will begin at 6:00 pm. Saturday's
session will consist of speakers and small group discussion groups. The
theme for this year's conference is Radical Christian Life: Equipping
Ourselves for Social Change. Speakers include Richard Rohr and Joan
Chittister.
Sister Joan Chittister
will be the keynote speaker on Friday evening. In the 21st century,
people seek to cope and to create in a world that is shifting on its
very foundations. Economic inequity threatens to tear us apart at the
seams. The forces of globalization demand that we rethink what it means
to be a community and where our mutual responsibilities lie. It is a
time of classic crisis, forged of equal parts threat and opportunity.
"Our task is now to be radical Christian communities in the here and
now, not fossils of a bygone reality, not leftovers from an earlier
golden age. Now we need new wisdom and a new kind of struggle to
determine what we must be and do in the midst of changing time. The
question is then: What does it mean to be a radical Christian community
in times such as these?" Joan Chittister, The Radical Christain Life.
Join us for what will be
an interesting and thoughtful workshop. Call 757-898-3261, Grace
Episcopal Church, to register early for this event or visit Abingdon
Church's website abingdonchurch.org.
