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Past Conferences & Retreats
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Featuring a performance of Tolstoy by Broadway actor Bruce Kuhn, the 2016 Linlathen conference, "InActing Word" offered a weekend lecture and training series led by Kuhn and Theology professor and fellow thespian, Dr. Ivan Khovacs.
Theologian & Inklings scholar Dr. Jason Lepojärvi led this short retreat exploring The Theology of Love & Worship, with C.S. Lewis' theology of love as the discussion backdrop.
The special guest for this biennial academic retreat was Revd Dr Trevor Hart, co-founder of the Institute for Theology, Imagination, & the Arts at St Andrews University and author of Making Good: Creation, Creativity, & Artistry.
Led by Dr. Sharon Jebb Smith, with Dr. Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson, "How Should We Then Read? The History, Theology, and Spirituality of Reading” was a weekend lecture series that explored whether there can be a uniquely Christian approach to reading in a text-filled world.
Led by singer/songwriter Cheryl Bear and Professor Emeritus Loren Wilkinson, the 2018 Linlathen conference, "The Heartbeat of Earth," offered a weekend of exploring the theology of, scriptural teaching on, and practice of relationship with ‘the Land.’
Led by poet, priest, and Cambridge fellow Malcolm Guite, the 2019 Linlathen conference, "The Poetic Imagination," offered a weekend of song, poetry, and the exploration of the gift of the imagination.
Led by acclaimed Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail and English professor David L. Jeffrey, the 2022 Linlathen conference, "The Long Conversation," offered a weekend of exploring the Christian Literary Tradition and its invitation to listen, consider, and respond.
Led by hip-hop artist Shad and visual artist Steve Prince, the 2023 Spring Linlathen conference, "'Membering the Second Line," offered a weekend of reflection on the act of remembrance as one that can be framed by a joy that informs the future.
Led by artist Erica Grimm and musician-scholar Chelle Stearns, the 2023 Summer Linlathen conference, "Watershed Epiphanies," offered a weekend of pondering the question: how can art help us become better practitioners, better disciples, better witnesses to the God of all of Creation?
Led by singer/songwriter Steve Bell and author Norman Wirzba, the 2024 Linlathen conference, "An Ecology of Hope," offered a weekend of exploration of the concept of Hope in light of our current relationship to Creation-care.