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Founded in 1999, the Tri-State Forum is in its eleventh year of offering lectures, presenting an opportunity to bring together pastors, ministry professionals and others interested in lifelong learning, growth, and collegial fellowship in our common faith. The annual forum series features five day-long lectures. With 5 contact hours per event, .5 CEUs (continuing education units) are available. Cost for forum membership, which includes all five lectures, is $130. Individual lecture cost is $50 per lecture.
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A Typical Forum Schedule:
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9:00-9:30
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Registration in Fritschel |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Chapel |
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10:00-10:30
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Coffee and Registration in Fritschel |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Welcome and Introductions in Fritschel Auditorium |
| 10:45-11:45 |
Lecture Part I |
| 11:45-1:00 |
Lunch available in the Refectory -
Pay as you go through the line |
| 1:15-2:15 |
Lecture Part II |
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2:15-2:30
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Break in Fritschel Hall |
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2:30-3:30
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Lecture Part III |
Dr. John Lyden
 In the 16th century, the printing press revolutionized communication through the ability
to reproduce text and images. This new technology was effectively harnessed by the Protestant Reformers to spread their message in unprecedented ways. Since then, photography, radio, motion pictures, television, and the internet have accelerated the delivery of images and ideas affecting our worldviews in powerful ways; often having popular culture compete with traditional religious teachings. How are religions to cope with this? In order to remain relevant to this changing world, religions must adapt. Focusing on the myths, morals, and rituals conveyed by today’s popular films, Dr. Lyden will propose that rather than simply accepting or rejecting these evolving media outlets, we need to develop tools to approach and understand the world of popular culture in which all of us now exist and by which we are shaped.
John Lyden is the author of Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals. He has also published numerous articles on interreligious dialogue, religion and culture, and religion and film. He was interviewed for the History Channel documentary, Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed. Dr. Lyden is Visiting Professor of Religion at Grand View University and served as Chair of the Religion Department at Dana College from 1991-2010. Dr. Lyden is currently the co-chair of the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion and a recipient of the Spiritus Award for Outstanding Contributions to the study of Religion and Film.
Dr. Brian C. Jones
 Suffering presents an immense challenge for people who believe that a benevolent God created the world and cares for it providentially. So has it always been. But the challenge has been intensified by modern science’s description of the world, especially by the theory of evolution with its detailed explication of “nature red in tooth and claw.” Post-Darwin, the adequacy of the Fall as a master explanation for the shortcomings of the world has been deeply challenged, and the doctrines of providence, soteriology and eschatology beg re-examination. These lectures will explore the problem of suffering post-Darwin and offer a new theological vision—a theology of nature—based upon God’s answer to Job in Job 38–41.
Brian C. Jones is an Associate Professor of Religion at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa where he has taught courses in Bible, theology, and science, and religion. Dr. Jones holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Point Loma College, a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Old Testament studies from Emory University. His published works include books on Isaiah and Ecclesiastes and essays on OT exegesis and historical geography.
Dr. Craig A. Satterlee
 With two wars, sagging financial institutions, and an oil soaked gulf, people wonder aloud if the world—or at least life as we know it—is coming to an end. The message of Advent that the future is in God’s hands and the Christmas promise that God is with us are especially poignant. Dr. Satterlee will lead us through the readings for the Christmas cycle from a homiletic perspective and provide ideas for sermons from the First Sunday in Advent through the Epiphany of our Lord.
Craig A. Satterlee holds the Axel Jacob and Gerda Maria (Swanson) Carlson Chair in Homiletics at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, serves as Dean of the ACTS Doctor of Ministry in Preaching Program and as adjunct professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Satterlee, the author of seven books, serves as editor of “Preaching Helps” for Currents in Theology and Mission, and frequently contributes to both scholarly and ecclesiastical journals. Legally blind, Dr. Satterlee has a passion for ministry with persons with disabilities.
Dr. Charles L. Campbell
 The Apostle Paul declares that the principalities and powers crucified Jesus (1 Corinthians 2:8). Paul also announces that through the cross and resurrection, Jesus has overcome the very powers that executed him (Colossians 2:13-15; Ephesians 1:20-23). These lectures will explore Lenten and Easter preaching through the lens of Jesus’ engagement with and victory over the “powers that be.”
Charles L. Campbell is Professor of Homiletics at Duke University Divinity School. Dr. Campbell’s work focuses on the biblical, theological, and ethical dimensions of preaching. He is specifically interested in the Christological and apocalyptic aspects of preaching, the role of preaching in relation to the “principalities and powers,” and contemporary homiletical theory. Past president of the Academy of Homiletics and the author of several publications, Dr. Campbell is currently writing a book on the “foolishness of preaching” and a theological commentary on First Corinthians.
Dr. Craig Nessan
 Body of Christ is one of the primary images for the church in the New Testament. Bonhoeffer described the church as “Christ existing as community” and as the “collective person” Jesus Christ. The church is formed to be the body of Christ through the biblical narrative and the pattern of the liturgy (Word and Sacrament). What are the characteristics that mark the body of Christ as Christ existing as community? These lectures will explore the four classical marks of the church that have not only ecclesiological but ethical consequences as well. The church is formed to be the body of Christ as it ministers through the practice of reconciliation/peacemaking, justice, care for creation, and respecting human dignity. These are the qualities of the body of Christ as shalom church.
Dr. Craig L. Nessan is Academic Dean and Professor of Contextual Theology at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, IA where he teaches courses in the areas of contextual theology, pastoral theology, and theological ethics. His theological interests include ecclesiology, theological ethics, liberation theology, and family systems theory. Dr. Nessan holds degrees from Michigan State University, Wartburg Theological Seminary, and the University of Munich. In addition to numerous articles, reviews, and books, Dr. Nessan is the author of Shalom Church: The Body of Christ as Ministering Community.
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