Public Lectures and Mission Research Colloquia—Spring 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Worship Language: Finding the Right Words Today
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“In many churches there is tension between the language that is used in worship and the actual vernacular tongue, an issue that has to do with cultural and religious identity, questions of unity and uniformity of ecclesiastical worship, and the intelligibility of liturgical rites,” says DR. BASILIUS GROEN, professor of liturgical studies and sacramental theology and director of the Institute for Liturgy, Christian Art and Hymnology, University of Graz, Austria.
He also holds the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for South-East Europe, which was established in 2007 at the University of Graz.
He is founding director of the Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, Nijmegen, Netherlands, which promote s scientific study of Eastern and Oriental Christianity, and was editor of the institute’s Journal of Eastern Christian Studies. Groen is a visiting professor at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and an OMSC resident.
Friday, March 2, 2012, 12:30 p.m.
Transnational Mission Networks: From Africa to America
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DR. MOSES O. BINEY, assistant professor of religion and society and research director for the Center for the Study and Practice of Urban Religion, New York Theological Seminary, will introduce and analyze transnational networks that exemplify new forms of twenty-first-century mission efforts. These efforts use structures that look much like the nineteenth-century Protestant churches in Africa, relating to a mission board in New York or London—only now the relationship is reversed, with the ordained leadership coming from Nigeria or Ghana to New York.
Dr. Biney is also minister of missions and outreach at First Presbyterian Church of Irvington, New Jersey. He has served in various ministerial positions, including as the organizing pastor for a Ghanaian immigrant congregation in Bronx, N.Y. Dr. Biney is author of From Africa to America: Religion and Adaptation Among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York (2011).
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
“The Church’s Response to Youth Violence: Being a Light That Shines in the Darkness”
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REV. KEITH A. KING is pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church in Hamden, Connecticut. Additionally, King serves as a federal prosecutor in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Connecticut, and in that dual capacity he has presented his message about school safety and reducing juvenile gun violence to more than 30,000 students in a variety of forums throughout the state.
Based on his extensive legal, pastoral, and community experience, Rev. King will discuss how congregations and individual Christians can respond constructively to the challenges and opportunities presented by juvenile violence in cities, including New Haven. With more than two hundred gun-related deaths recorded by the medical examiner in Connecticut last year and an ever-increasing number of homicides in New Haven each year, juvenile gun violence is an acute problem about which the church must show concern.
Upcoming Public Events—Save These 2012 Dates:
Mission Research Colloquia (Friday, 12:30 p.m. brown bag lunch)
March 23: Ms. Barbara Hüfner-Kemper
Public Lecture (Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.)
March 27: Fr. Stefanos Alexopoulos
April 10: Dr. J. Kwabena Asamoa-Gyadu
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