Opening Convocations
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Opening Convocations
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Antisemitism and Anti-Judaism in History, Theology, Society, and Scripture
Opening Convocation for the 2023-2024 academic year with an address by Carolyn Helsel.
Ecolocation
Opening Convocation for the 2022-2023 academic year, featuring the musical address "Ecolocation" by Eric Wall and the first convocation presided over by Austin Seminary's new president José Irizarry.
Learning to Grieve: Witnessing the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Spiritual Practice
Opening Convocation of the 2021-2022 academic year. In this lecture, delivered on the first day of the reopening of campus, Philip Browning Helsel speaks to the spiritual realities of the pandemic.
Goodbye Rushmore. Hello Beautiful.
Melissa Wiginton discusses the new types of leadership that will be necessary for the church in this Opening Convocation address. Convocation was held virtually via Zoom due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic.
Flashes of Fire: Love in the Old Testament
Speaking during opening convocation of the 2014-2015 academic year, Suzie Park details the kinds of love in the Hebrew Bible.
The Biblical Critic as Collector
Gregory Cuéllar discusses the changes biblical criticism underwent in the 18th century, focusing on the rise of an emphasis on the collection and collation of textual artifacts.
Learning From the Exiles: Resilience and the General Epistles
Opening convocation for the 2019-2020 academic year. Margaret Aymer discusses how the General Epistles model ways to grow spiritual resilience by providing ways to reconcile moral stress.
Learning From the Exiles: Resilience and the General Epistles
Opening convocation for the 2019-2020 academic year. Margaret Aymer discusses how the General Epistles model ways to grow spiritual resilience by providing ways to reconcile moral stress.
Whiteness and Social Class at Mainline Seminaries: Toward an Agenda.
Opening convocation for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Angels in the Laundry
A lecture on the poetic imagination delivered by Paul Hooker during the Opening Convocation for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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- Lectures & Addresses
- Opening Convocations