Please take a look at the schedule update below. Greg Garrett will speak in Crail C this Sunday, May 11, followed by Nora Gallagher on Sunday, May 18.
Practicing Resurrection: Reconciliation, Resistance, and Resurrection
HOW LITERATURE AND CULTURE CAN SHAPE US AND MOVE US
Sunday, May 11
10 a.m., Crail C
In this Sunday conversation, Dr. Greg Garrett will invite us to engage with Hollywood films, American literature, and, in particular, the writer and activist James Baldwin to see what they can teach us about loss and redemption in the Christian tradition.
Practicing Resurrection: Be like the fox
Sunday, May 18
10 a.m., Crail C
Resurrection is not about believing six impossible things before breakfast but about how we live out this mysterious idea of eternity, mixing into or flashing like a trout in our actual, messy lives. See bestselling author Nora Gallagher (joining us via Zoom) as she explores the Resurrection story from John's Gospel in which the disciples encounter Jesus cooking fish for them. He is not a triumphant king but a lowly camp cook.
Practicing Resurrection: A Writer’s Perspective
Sunday, June 1
10 a.m., Crail C
Our Adult Formation Crail C series during the season of Eastertide is entitled Practicing Resurrection. Guest speakers who are writers and poets will invite us to think about resurrection, not just as the promise of heaven or eternal life, but also as a life-giving reality in the world today that turns things upside down for the sake of God’s love.
Dr. Todd Copeland will explore the idea of practicing resurrection as found in poems that embrace the possibilities of a resurrected life and in narratives that tell the stories of people who, although no longer with us, retain the ability to teach us eternal truths about the human condition.
About Dr. Todd Copeland
Dr. Todd Copeland is the author of the narrative nonfiction book The Immortal Ten and Like All Light, winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. His poems and essays have appeared in Image, Sugar House Review, Christianity & Literature, and Literary Imagination, among other publications. His other awards include the John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History from the Texas State Historical Association in 2025. A graduate of Baylor University (B.A.), The University of Georgia (M.A.), and Texas A&M University (Ph.D.), he serves in institutional advancement at Baylor University, where he also has taught creative writing and American literature.
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