We Invite You To Our Conference!
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, October 5-7, 2021
We are ready for our conference and we would be delighted if you could come!
This has been a tough year for many of us. Many of us feel a great need to gather, to think, to pray, and to worship together. In order to fulfill God's calling upon our lives, we want to be "equipped and encouraged, instructed and inspired," which is the mission of Theology Matters.
Our theme is: Living in the Power of Jesus Christ From Generation to Generation
and we have a wonderful line-up of speakers!
We have three new speakers we are announcing here for the first time. They are: Steven Crocco, who just retired as Director of Yale University Divinity School Library; James Edwards, who is Bruner-Welch Professor Emeritus of Theology at Whitworth University; and Joseph Small, who retired after many years as Director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Theology and Worship.
The reason we are announcing the names of these speakers so belatedly, however, is unfortunate. Earl Palmer, called me a couple weeks ago and told me he was having some health problems that he thought were related to his heart. Two days later, his wife, Shirley, contacted me and said Earl had to have emergency surgery to put in a pacemaker, and he would not be able to make the conference. About the same time, I received an email from John Azumah, who lives in Ghana. He wrote to tell me that his family and he “had challenges with COVID” and that he too would not be able to come.
We thank the Lord that both Earl and John (and John's family) are doing much better now! But we regret they are not able to come. Both expressed deep regret and promised, Lord willing, to come next time. We are also grateful for Steve, Jim, and Joe for stepping up to the plate only a month or so before the conference! Please see their bios along with those of our other speakers below.
So, please join us! We think you will be blessed!
Come and reflect on the faith, relax with friends, and rekindle the flame!
There are still great hotel rates on beautiful beachfront. While they last!
Here are our conference speakers:
Todd Billings is the Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. After serving as an elder in the PCUSA while a doctoral student at Harvard, he later became an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America. He is the author of six books, including Union with Christ (winner of a Christianity Today Book Award), and most recently, The End of the Christian Life.
Jeffrey Bullock has been President of the University of Dubuque, college and theological seminary, since 1998. He has led a transformation that has resulted in growing the endowment by nearly $250 million, and enrollment growth that has quadrupled the size of the University. He has published several academic works and is a Presbyterian minister who, prior to coming to Dubuque, focused on congregational revitalization in churches in Pittsburgh and Seattle.
Stephen Crocco recently retired from the position of Library Director at Yale University Divinity School. Prior to serving at Yale, he held similar positions at Princeton and Pittsburgh theological seminaries. Steve is an ordained PCUSA minister, has served as an interim pastor, and preaches regularly in PCUSA congregations. He is also a founding board member of the Theological Book Network.
James Edwards taught religion at the University of Jamestown, North Dakota for nearly twenty years, and theology at Whitworth for twenty years. His published works include commentaries on Romans, the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Is Jesus the Only Savior?, The Divine Intruder, and Between the Swastika and the Sickle: The Life, Disappearance, and Execution of Ernst Lohmeyer. He is on the board of advisors of Theology Matters.
Richard Gibbons is senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, South Carolina. A native of Scotland and graduate of the University of Glasgow, he is a much sought-after preacher and teacher of the Bible and Reformed theology, has led missions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and currently serves as co-moderator on the ECO denomination’s Theological Task Force.
Jennifer Powell McNutt is the Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. She is author of the award-winning book, Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685–1798, a specialist in the Reformation and post-Reformation periods, and a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society. She and her husband, David McNutt, are ordained ministers in the PCUSA, co-presidents of McNuttshell Ministries, and parish associates at First Presbyterian Church of Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
Richard Ray is chairman of the board of the Presbyterian Heritage Center, Montreat, North Carolina. He has served as a pastor in Arkansas, Virginia, and Tennessee, managing director of John Knox Press, professor at Stephens College and Pittsburgh Seminary, and president of King University, Bristol, Tennessee. He has served on the board of the Grandfather Home for Children, Calvin Studies Society, and is on the board of advisors of Theology Matters.
Joseph Small served as director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Theology and Worship from 1989-2011, following pastorates in Towson Maryland, Westerville Ohio, and Rochester New York. His extensive ecumenical theological engagements include ten years as co-chair of the international Reformed-Pentecostal Dialogue. He currently serves on the Board of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.
Lorenzo Small is pastor of First United Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina. After several years in the corporate world, working for companies such as 3M Corporation and Eli Lily & Company, he was called to preach, served as a Baptist minister, and was later ordained and installed as pastor of Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Union Presbyterian Seminary (Charlotte).
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