This will address both our ministry with others and our own spirituality.
Registration deadline: September 21st
Hotel Reservations must be made separately - Booking Link - Rooms are $139, our group name is "Protestant Chaplains Meeting."
COSTS FOR THE CONFERENCE:
Full Registration $300 (includes meals)
Volunteer Chaplain Full Registration $250 (includes meals)
One Day/Partial Registration $100 (does NOT include meals)
Tuesday Dinner $40
Wednesday Lunch $30
Wednesday Dinner $40
*Guests are welcome to join for meals, but must be registered for them.
SCHEDULE:
Tuesday
1 PM - Welcome
1:15 PM - Opening Worship
1:45 PM - Keynote Pt. I - Graves: “Wisdom’sVision: Practicing Discernment in Work & Life”
3 PM - Break
3:30 PM - Keynote Pt. II - Graves: “Wisdom’sVision: Practicing Discernment in Work & Life”
4:30 PM - Break
5:30 PM - Dinner
7 PM - NYSCOC Executive Director & NYSAPC meeting
8:30 PM - Fellowship
Wednesday
8:30 AM - Morning Worship
9 AM - Speaker - Graves: “I Am Because WeDiscern: Ubuntu and Communal Wisdom” (with small group breakout session)
10:30 AM - Commissioner Martuscello followedby Office of Ministerial Services Team
11:30 AM - Lunch
1-3 PM - Speaker - Letterman: “What is theDifference Between Decision-Making and Discernment?”
3 PM - Break
3:30-5 PM - Sister Donald Corcoran, OSB“Discernment: Creative Reflections”
5-5:30 PM - Break
6 PM - Dinner
7 PM - Communion Service
8 PM - Fellowship
Thursday
9-10:30 AM - Panel: Graves, Letterman, and SrDonald: “What God Wants for Us: Journeys of Discernment”
10:30 AM - Closing Worship
Our Speakers:
Dr. Marlena Graves is the Assistant Professor of Spiritual Formation at Northeastern Seminary on the campus of Roberts Wesleyan University in Rochester, NY. She has written five books, two of which were award-winning, edited an academic anthology, and has contributed to many, many other books. She has over 250 articles/devotions published in a variety of venues, including Christianity Today, Relevant, Sojourners, the Christian Century, and more. In the last eight years, she has been interviewed by both New York Magazine and Reuters about white evangelicals, politics, and nationalism. She has appeared on dozens of podcasts and is a sought-after speaker. She has spoken at churches, university chapels, retreats, and nonprofits all over the United States.
In addition, she has held pastoral positions at several churches, including a church plant in Springfield, Ohio. She has worked for many nonprofits in solidarity with the poor, migrant farm workers, immigrants from Central and South America, and local community members and leaders who sought to address police brutality in the Toledo, Ohio, area and address the lead paint poisoning of children. Marlena has been on the board of several organizations, including Evangelicals 4 Justice and The Redbud Writers Guild. She is married to her husband Shawn, a philosophy professor, and has three wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, and growing girls. She wants people to know God delights in them. She has been dubbed "a missionary to the American Church." She loves to laugh, Northeastern Seminary and the School of Theological Studies at RWU, anything to do with Puerto Rico, being out in nature, and being with family and friends and good folk. She received her PhD in American Culture from Bowling Green State University with a concentration in social history, focusing on the areas of race, gender, immigration, and American evangelicals.
Dr. Rebecca Letterman is an experienced educator, coach, mentor, and spiritual director. She taught human and Christian spirituality (along with other topics) for nearly two decades at Northeastern Seminary. She has researched ways that our bodies both express and shape who we are - becoming convinced that the most effective path for authentic change is through the inclusion of customized physical practices alongside spiritual, cognitive, cultural, and emotional intelligence practices.
Rebecca is passionate about guiding and supporting people who long for change - personal, relational, and organizational change - through integrative work that attends to all the dimensions of what it means to be human.
Dr. Letterman is Certified Embodiment Coach and an experienced Spiritual Director. She is ordained in the Free Methodist Church USA. Her Ph.D. is from Cornell University, and her M.Div. is from Northeastern Seminary. Dr. Letterman received her M.A. from Syracuse University, and her B.A. from Roberts Wesleyan University.
Sister Donald Corcoran, OSB, is a native of Minnesota. She has been a Benedictine nun for over 60 years. From 1976 to 1979, Sister Donald was co-director of the Institute of Religious Formation at St. Louis University where she also headed the M.A. in Spirituality program. She remains an adjunct professor at St. Louis University where she returns every January to teach a course on the history of Christian spirituality. She has a Ph.D. in theology from Fordham University with a specialization in spirituality. Her dissertation is entitled “The Spiritual Guide: Midwife of the Higher Spiritual Self,” a study of the classic master/disciple relationship in the great spiritual traditions. In 1979, she helped found the Transfiguration Monastery in Windsor, New York, where she currently lives. Her present interest is a comparative study of Benedictine and Confucian spirituality.
