NOTE: Due to the forecast of rain, the Yaupon Place Workshop scheduled for Thursday, March 24, has been postponed until FRIDAY, MARCH 25. The time will remain the same, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
DETAILS
2022 Carl Howie Center Events
March 22-March 24
Union Presbyterian Seminary
3401 Brook Road
Richmond, Virginia, 23227
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, March 22, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Early Center
Workshop: Tell Me About that Place: Sharing Personal Landscapes
This interactive workshop will focus on place, story, and self to guide participants in establishing a sense of "ecological identity." Participants will be invited to reflect on how places have shaped their understandings of themselves in their own stories. The workshop will include opportunities for quiet reflection as well as time and space to share stories in small groups. Just as individuals have landscapes that shape their identities, so do different places and communities as well. Come learn how the diversity of stories helps individuals and communities understand a particular place, its wounds, and its healing. Participants are invited (though not required) to bring two or three photos , print or digital, of places significant to them.
Wednesday, March 23, 7:30 p.m., Lake Chapel in the Early Center / Live-streaming available as well
Lecture: Becoming Inhabitants: Recasting Christian Life
An inhabitant desires and cultivates the wisdom necessary to live in God's world well. Faith communities that nurture inhabitance as a way of life for Christians tap into the creating, redeeming, and reviving power of God. They understand what it means to be members of the Body of Christ on an embodied and relational level. What is more, they understand themselves as members of creation, participants in the divine drama of life and death, joy and suffering, fear and wonder, love and grief. What if Christians re-imagined the life of faith as a life of inhabitance in God's world?
A book signing will follow the lecture, and copies will be available for purchase.
This event is FREE and open to the public. It will be presented on the Richmond campus and livestreamed as well.
NEW TIME DUE TO POTENTIAL RAIN on 3/24: This workshop will now take place on Friday, March 25, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Yaupon Place, 1313 Westwood Avenue, Richmond, Virginia
Workshop: A Pilgrimage Through Yaupon Place
Yaupon Place is envisioned as a public eco-park, providing the seminary a landscape for building healing connections across divides within our Northside community--divisions that include our social, ecological, and spiritual lives. How does this beautiful, natural space become a place where inhabitance is nurtured as a shared way of life? How will Yaupon Place help write a new, healing narrative for the Northside and for Richmond?
This workshop will provide a pilgrimage through Yaupon Place to explore these questions, to connect with the land, and to learn what is already happening at Northside's eco-park.
FORMAT AND OTHER DETAILS
There is not a cost for this event, but we are asking attendees to register.
Registration will close at 9 a.m. (Eastern Time) on the first day of the event (March 22).
New Note: Registration for the Yaupon Place Workshop will now close at 9 a.m. on Friday, March 25.
All times listed are Eastern Times.
ABOUT THE CARL HOWIE CENTER FOR SCIENCE, ART, AND THEOLOGY
The Howie Center Events are always FREE and open to all. They are designed to bring community members together through the intersection of science, art, and theology.
The Carl Howie Center sponsors presentations through which church leaders (including seminarians) recognize and engage the insights and implications of the interplay of science, art, and theology for theological expression and the practice of ministry. The Center generously provides funding for lectures, seminars, and displays at Union Presbyterian Seminary once or twice a year, featuring artists, scientists, and/or theologians in conversation about a particular topic.
