Holden Village Teaching Faculty Summer 2017: Beginning Together
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Faculty
Dr. Hal Taussig
Bio
June 12 - 16
Sessions
Theologian and Professor of New Testament, Union Theological Seminary
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Dr. Katrina Hay
Associate Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. Author, Little Bear’s Big
Night Sky.
1. What is energy? What powers our devices?
2. Our Energy Future: Innovations in responsible use of Earth’s
resources
3. Our Place in the Universe: Cosmology of space and time
Kristen Benson,
Ph. D., LMFT,
CFLE
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at North Dakota
State University and licensed marriage and family therapist. Kristen focuses on providing inclusive and supportive therapy to LGBTQ people and relationships.
1. Understanding Gender Identity and Gender Diversity
2. Supporting Gender Creative Children
3. Creating a Gender Inclusive Faith Community
Laura Norton
Letter arts practitioner and calligraphy specialist based in Bellingham, WA. Her work
can be found at www.LettersAloft.com
“Wild” Calligraphy: God has given each of us something
mportant to say, and calligraphy is a powerful, visual way to say it!
Molly SecorTurner,
Ph. D., RN
Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Department of Public Health at North Dakota State University and Director of Programs for the non-profit organization, For
the Good PERIOD. Her work bridges the universal experience of adolescence from
rural North Dakota, to rural Kenya, to high-risk youth in Fargo.
1. The Story of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Rural Kenya
2. Building Partnerships to Work for Global Health
3. Preparing Menstrual Hygiene Kits for Rural Kenya
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Faculty
Dr. Hal Taussig
Bio
June 19 - 23
Theologian and Professor of New Testament, Union Theological Seminary
Rev. Dr. Barbara Theologian and Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology at
Rossing
Chicago
Sessions
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Professor, worship and ecotheology at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
Holden Village pastor 2000 - 2003 and author, A Watered Garden: Christian Worship
and Earth’s Ecology.
Rediscovering Earth Wisdom in Ritual and Daily Life
Dan Spencer,
Ph. D.
Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Montana. Author, Gay and Gaia:
Ethics, Ecology and the Erotic, and Earth Ethics: A Case Method Approach
Deep Time and Christian Responses:
1. The Geological Story of the Pacific Northwest
2. Climate Change, Faith & Ethics
3. Biomimicry and Sustainable Energy: Living on and with the Earth
Peter Hernes,
Ph. D.
Professor, University of California Davis, specializing in river biogeochemistry. Peter
has also tought courses in hardcore aqueous geochemistry, water quality, graduate
writing courses, and first-year seminars on environmental poetry and classic environmental literature.
1. The Climate Change wild child - is it nature or nurture?
2. Are human values compatible with environmental sustainability?
3. What the FRACK!
Ben Stewart,
Ph.D.
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Faculty
June 26 - 30
Bio
Sessions
Rev. Alan Storey
Alan is a Gospel story-teller located in Cape Town South Africa who serves in and
through the Central Methodist Mission and is an ordained Methodist minister. Alan
was the last conscientious objector brought to trial in Apartheid South Africa for
Jesus: The Courageous, Compassionate One
refusing military conscription. He also specializes in facilitating Diversity Engagement
encounters, which expose entrenched dynamics of power, privilege and prejudice
and attempt to heal the divisions that still divide us.
Kaethe Schwehn
Professor of Creative Writing and Composition at St. Olaf College. Author, Tailings:
A Memoir, Tanka & Me, and The Rending and the Nest (forthcoming 2018).
1. Writing the Landscapes We’ve Loved
2. I, Too, Sing America
3. Writing the Bible
Claire Smith
Currently in the Masters of Social Work program at University of Washington, Claire
is studying oppression and liberation and hopes to deconstruct unjust systems and
rebuild relationships. She received her training in intercultural communication and
facilitation through the Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship and Kaleidoscope
Institute Northwest.
1. Do I have a culture?
2. “Sticky” Moments & Cultural Differences
3. Living Faithfully, Navigating Cultural Differences
Dan Spencer, Ph. D.
Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Montana. Author, Gay and Gaia:
Ethics, Ecology and the Erotic, and Earth Ethics: A Case Method Approach
Earth Ethics: A Case Study Approach to Current
Environmental Issues
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Faculty
Mike VanQuickenborne
June 26 - 30 (cont.)
Bio
Tenured philosophy instructor, Everett Community College, and organizer of
“Philosophy in the Dark,” the world’s first philosophy film festival.
Sessions
1. Should I take the blue pill? The Matrix and Waking
Life as invitations to philosophical questioning
2. Is there any winning the battle for Truth? The Battle
of Algiers and Adaptation as examples of
postmodernism
3. Life, the Universe, Religion and Film: The Seventh
Seal, Contact, and The Song of Sparrows
Peter Hernes, Ph. D.
Professor, University of California Davis, specializing in river biogeochemistry. Peter
has also tought courses in hardcore aqueous geochemistry, water quality, graduate
writing courses, and first-year seminars on environmental poetry and classic environmental literature.
1. Joy and Responsibility in Nature (Sand County
Almanac)
2. Silent Spring and the taming of a chemical revolution
3. The End of Nature
Peder Jothen, Ph. D.
Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College. Author, Kierkegaard, Selfhood, and
Aesthetics: The Art of Subjectivity. Peder’s research revolves around questions of
moral formation and practice, especially in relation to technology, culture, and art.
1. Can Beauty make us Wise?
2. Would Jesus be Willing to be Painted?
3. Can Beauty Make Us Good?
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Faculty
July 3 - 7
Bio
Sessions
Bishop Patricia Lull
Bishop, St. Paul Area Synod, ELCA. Bishop Lull is interested in the creative
convergence of theology, cultural phenomena, and the ongoing reformation of the
church, and she has recently been chewing on a new understanding of vocation,
suited to the global and political realities of this century.
Elizabeth Person
Illustrator and designer based in Everett, Washington. Using pen and watercolor, she 1. You Are Here: an interactive class about maps and
sketches from life and creates ‘illustrative infographics,’ featuring Northwest themes place
2. Map-Making/Art (Mapping Your Life)
and geography. Elizabeth was also a 2015 Artist in Residence at Holden.
Jason DeRose
Western Bureau Chief & Senior Editor for Religion at NPR News. Jason’s work can
be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. He also
volunteers as a mentor for student journalists through NLGJA: The Association of
LGBT Journalists and is active in the the Religion News Association
Ron Young
Currently serves as a Consultant for Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders of 1. Welcome to the Middle East
the National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East. Author, 2. Israeli-Palestinian Peace Is Still Possible
Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam and the Middle East.
3. Meeting Our Muslim Neighbors Near and Far
Against the Grain: Vocation in a Time of Resistance
1. The Listening Room: A Sense of Place
2. The Listening Room: Revealing Characters
3. The Listening Room: Encountering Conflict
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Faculty
July 3 - 7 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
1. The Great, Wide C around Us: Exploring the Carbon
Cycle and Reforming Our Carbon Footprints
2. Carbon at the Table: Examining the Intersections of
Climate and Agriculture
3. Secrets of the Not-So-Deep: Macroinvertebrates of
the Re-formed Creek
Katie Monsen, Ph. D.
Katie Monsen is a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of California
Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses in agroecology, climate, freshwater ecology,
and watersheds.
Rev. Nancy Winder
1. A New Creation Comes to Life and Grows: St. Paul’s
Nancy Winder is an ELCA pastor. One of the first Lutheran women ordained, Nancy
Re-creation Theology
2. A New Creation Comes to Life and Grows: Grace in
was the Village Pastor from 1976-1978, and again in 2009-2010. Her previous
Teaching Faculty sessions have often focused on Bible Study, mystery fiction, and the the New Creation - Luther’s Use of Paul’s Letters
3. A New Creation Comes to Life and Grows: How Paul
work of the Inklings (C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien and others).
and Luther Influence Life and Community Today
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Faculty
July 10 - 14
Bio
Sessions
Rev. Dr. Kathryn
Schifferdecker
Associate Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary and ordained ELCA pastor.
Learning Our Place: Humility and Wonder in the Book of
Her teaching interests include biblical narrative, creation theology, preaching, and
Job
questions of suffering.
Chuck Hoffman + Peg
Carlson-Hoffman
Executive Directors, Holden Village, Artists and peacemakers. They have a shared
ministry of reconciliation rooted in community building and shared artwork, a proImagining the Book of Job: Art Workshop (an artistic exphetic ministry which has taken them into some of the most intractable places of
tension and exploration alongside the theological study
religious and political conflict around the globe. Through their studio, Genesis + Art,
of Job offered by Kathryn Schifferdecker)
they have worked in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Israel / Palestine, India and many communities in the USA.
Joseph Siebert, Ph. D.
Dr. Siebert is Emeritus Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine at the
University of Washington. Part of his graduate training and scientific research has
been in the fields of evolutionary biology and physical anthropology. As a life-long
Christian, he has a deep interest in the interplay of religion and evolution.
1. In the Beginning, God: A Christian’s View of Evolution
2. In the Beginning, God: Part Two - Scientific
Approaches to Evolutionary Biology
3. In the Beginning, God: Part Three - God’s On-going
Creation
Rev. Thomas Martin
Tom Martin grew up in Nebraska, did graduate work in the UK, is an ordained
Lutheran pastor and is Associate Professor of Religion at Susquehanna University. He
specializes in New Testament, Environmental Ethics and Science and Religion
courses. His style emphasizes humor as a teaching tool and making interdisciplinary
connections.
1. Models of God drawn from Evolutionary Theory and
Cosmology
2. Ecology and Self-Formation in Built Environments
3. The New Testament and De-centering
Anthropocentrism
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Faculty
July 10 - 14 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Glenn Jordan
Glenn Jordan was one of the key individuals in the design and delivery of Skainos
Square, a major urban regeneration project in Inner East Belfast emerging from the
TBA
work of East Belfast Mission in Northern Ireland. He recently served as the Director of
Law Centre (NI).
Rebecca Wee
Poet and an English/creative writing professor at Augustana College in Rock Island,
IL. Author, Uncertain Grace (winner of the 2001 Hayden Carruth Award for New and
Emerging Poets), and published in in journals and anthologies including
Ploughshares and the Iowa Review.
1. Learn to Notice What You Notice
2. My heart on a Swing Touched the Sky
3. Everything is punished by your absence
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Faculty
July 17 - 21
Bio
Sessions
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason
Gary Mason is a Methodist minister and director of “Rethinking Conflict,” a conflict
transformation organisation in Northern Ireland. Mason has played an integral role
in the Northern Irish peace process and was instrumental in facilitating negotiations
with paramilitaries and government officials. In 2007, his contribution was formally
recognised by the Queen. Mason is also an Adjunct Professor at the Candler School
of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber
Author of two New York Times bestselling memoirs: Pastrix; The Cranky, Beautiful
Faith of a Sinner & Saint (2013) and Accidental Saints; Finding God in All the Wrong
People (2015). She is an ordained Lutheran pastor (ELCA) and works as the founding
pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado.
How Christian communities address public tragedy and
shared trauma
Jason Mahn, Ph. D.
Theologian and Professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. Jason teaches
courses on Luther, vocation, ecology, intentional religious communities, and
contemporary Christian theology. Author of Becoming a Christian in Christendom:
Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in American “Christian” Culture, and
co-author of Radical Lutherans/Lutheran Radicals.
Radical Lutherans/ Lutheran Radicals
Richie Blink
Richie Blink is the Plaquemines Community Outreach Coordinator at Restore the
Mississippi River Delta and a founding member of New Harmony High School. Richie Dealing with Coastal Changes in the Mississippi River
works closely with local stakeholders to ensure widespread support of sustainable
Delta in an Equitable and Just Way
coastal restoration of the Mississippi River Delta.
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Faculty
July 17 - 21 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Emily Swanson, Ph. D.
Emily Swanson is interested in the ways that language choices can influence our
cultural, political, and physical world. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the
University of Minnesota in 2007, with a dissertation titled, “Natural Arguments:
Popular Discourse and Environmental Legislation, 1945-2007,” and she spent two
summers as a National Park Service ranger at Glacier National Park. She teaches
writing at Anoka Technical College, where she aims to empower her students to be
confident writers.
1. Wilderness as a Cultural Construction
2. Wilderness and Justice
3. Wilderness in an era of Climate Change
Michon Weeks
Michon Weeks is a visiting assistant professor of studio art at St. Olaf College,
teaching courses in drawing, painting, figure drawing, and Senior Seminars. Michon
draws familiar objects combined with sacred texts as a way to ask questions and see
metaphorical intersections.
1. Capturing Beauty: Contour Drawing
2. Capturing Beauty: Drawing Conditions
3. Capturing Beauty: Pedestrian Report
Jannele Mastin
Exploring the intersection of worship and immersive creative experience, Jannele
Mastin has been creating large scale artwork to illuminate teaching, worship and
provoke deeper thought into God’s ways for over 20 years. Jannele has worked as
a Senior Art Director in Kansas City while coordinating visual art opportunities and
creating mixed media work for Jacob’s Well Church and other venues.
Liturgical Art: Relevance and Creation of New Works for
Worship
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Faculty
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason
July 24 - 28
Bio
Gary Mason is a Methodist minister and director of “Rethinking Conflict,” a conflict
transformation organisation in Northern Ireland. Mason has played an integral role
in the Northern Irish peace process and was instrumental in facilitating negotiations
with paramilitaries and government officials. In 2007, his contribution was formally
recognised by the Queen. Mason is also an Adjunct Professor at the Candler School
of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.
Sessions
TBA
Glenn and Deborah are the founders and lead artists in the socially-engaged art
collaborative DOEprojekts. Together, Deborah and Glenn have created participatory
“art actions” in many parts of the world. In addition, the Doerings have co-directed
TBA
Glenn & Deborah Doering an alternative art space, taught art and design, and have worked with non-profits
and for-profit organizations. The Doerings believe that the strength of DOEprojekts
is to find common ground in working with each other, with other artists/artisans, and
with the public – moving contemporary culture toward “the common good.”
Rev. Dr. Paul Rohde
Paul is campus pastor at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD. His passion is
narrative theology. He tells his students he studies it to convince them their lives are
stories and not answers because the Gospel itself is a story.
Living Word: Listening to Genesis for cues about
loving our neighbors and siblings
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Faculty
July 24 - 28 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Rev. Greg Mileski
Greg Mileski is an ELCA parish pastor interested in how what we believe shapes our
actions and how we live in our world with our neighbors. Greg is currently studying
Hindu and Buddhist philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder
1. Why Matter Matters
2. Buddhism and the Trinity
3. Thy Kingdom Come
Rev. Kris Voss-Rothmeier
Rev. Kris Voss-Rothmeier is a Presbyterian minister and middle school teacher in
Portland, Oregon. Kris is a trained anti-racism workshop leader through the National
Conference for Community and Justice and preaches and leads workshops on antiracism themes. In June 2017, he will complete a year-long course of study at the
University of Portland which focuses on equity training for educators.
1. De-Forming the Beloved Community: A History of
Racism in Early America
2. In-Forming the Beloved Community: Racism in
Contemporary America
3. Re-Forming the Beloved Community: Engaging in
Meaningful Conversations About Race
Jeff Kerssen-Griep, Ph.D. is Professor of Communication at the University of Portland
teaching Communication across Barriers and Intercultural Communication, plus Interpersonal, Team, Public, and Instructional Communication. His work explores comJeff Kerssen-Griep, Ph. D. munication practices that sustain authentic connections and socially just attitudes.
Jeff’s scholarship examines cross-cultural contact and helps teachers and other
leaders navigate the skilled interactions that build engaged, diverse, and motivated
learning environments.
1. Communicating Across Barriers: Learning to See and
Avoid T.U.I. (“Thinking Under the Influence”) in Connecting with Others
2. Communicating Across Barriers: Navigating Unexpected Differences with Unfamiliar Others
Description
3. Communicating Across Barriers: Interpersonal Skills
for Intercultural Interactions and Relationships
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Faculty
Kirsten Olson
July 24 - 28 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Kirsten teaches General Sociology, Gender in Society, Sociology of Food and
Sociology of Power at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids, MN. She
has interests in social movements and organizational change.
1. In the Words of Marvin Gay, What’s Going on?
2. Sociology Insight on Privilege, Inequality, and (lack) of
Social Change
3. Analyze before you act, and use your diverse resources wisely
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Faculty
July 31 - August 4
Bio
Sessions
Rev. Dr. Gary Mason
Gary Mason is a Methodist minister and director of “Rethinking Conflict,” a conflict
transformation organisation in Northern Ireland. Mason has played an integral role
in the Northern Irish peace process and was instrumental in facilitating negotiations
with paramilitaries and government officials. In 2007, his contribution was formally
recognised by the Queen. Mason is also an Adjunct Professor at the Candler School
of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta.
Glenn and Deborah
Doering
Glenn and Deborah are the founders and lead artists in the socially-engaged art
collaborative DOEprojekts. Together, Deborah and Glenn have created participatory
“art actions” in many parts of the world. In addition, the Doerings have co-directed
TBA
an alternative art space, taught art and design, and have worked with non-profits
and for-profit organizations. The Doerings believe that the strength of DOEprojekts
is to find common ground in working with each other, with other artists/artisans, and
with the public – moving contemporary culture toward “the common good.”
Dr. Roy Hammerling
Dr. Roy Hammerling is a Professor of Religion at Concordia College and the author
of A History of Prayer: The First to the Fifteenth Century and The Lord’s Prayer in the
Early Church: The Pearl of Great Price. He has written articles and lectured on Martin Luther, the history of Christian Spirituality, religion and film, Islam, and religion
in modern culture. He has also worked on the documentary films Message from the
East and My Country No More and is a co-founder of the organization PACODES.
TBA
The Wittenberg Door: 500 Years of Reformation
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Faculty
July 31 - August 4 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Elizabeth Austen
Elizabeth Austen is Washington State’s Poet Laureate for 2014-16. She is the author
of Every Dress a Decision, The Girl Who Goes Alone, and Where Currents Meet.
1. Earth Songs: Poems of Protest and Hope
2. Line Breaks & Topography: Shapes that Influence Our
Lives (with Jourdan Imani Keith)
Jourdan Imani Keith
Jourdan Imani Keith is a contributing writer for Orion Magazine. Her essays
“Desegregating Wilderness” and “At Risk” appear in the 2015 Best American
Science and Nature Writing Anthology. As Seattle Public Library’s first naturalist-inResidence she designed “Natural Literacy,” linking environmental and early
childhood literacy, and her essay collection, Tugging at the Web, is forthcoming.
1. Human Estuaries: Where Our Bodies of Water Meet
2. Line Breaks & Topography: Shapes that Influence Our
Lives (with Elizabeth Austin)
Dave Peterson
Dave Peterson is a research scientist with the USDA Forest Service in Wenatchee,
WA. He conducts field-based research in fire ecology and other areas and is interested in how restoration-based forest management practices increase resilience to
fire and climate change. He is currently conducting two research projects related to
post-fire vegetation recovery on the Wolverine wildfire that burned large areas of
forest near Lake Chelan 2015, including some field work in Railroad Creek valley near
Holden.
1. The Historical and Ecological Context for the
Wolverine Fire
2. The Wolverine Fire and its Aftermath
3. Ecological Recovery and Re-Formation After
Wolverine
John Marty
John Marty is a state senator in Minnesota who works for public policies that serve
the entire community, especially the homeless, those without healthcare, and other
vulnerable people. He believes we can build a more peaceful and just society that
protects the environment and leaves a better world for future generations. John is
the author of a recent book, Healing Health Care, which offers a roadmap to universal health care.
With our nation and world more bitterly divided than
ever, there is an urgent need for a new model. We will
consider how, with a clear vision and good courage, we
can build a society where love overcomes hate and we
can work together to address our social, economic, and
environmental challenges.
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Faculty
July 31 - August 4 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Paul Rohde
Paul is campus pastor at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD. His passion is
narrative theology. He tells his students he studies it to convince them their lives are
stories and not answers because the Gospel itself is a story.
Living Word: Listening to Genesis for cues about loving our neighbors and siblings
Terry Fretheim, Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, St Paul, MN who has also
taught at Trinity Seminary, Columbus, OH; Lutheran Seminary, Hong Kong: and Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Terry is the author of over 20
books and about 100 articles for church and academy.
God, the Bible, and Natural Disasters
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Faculty
August 7 - 11
Bio
Sessions
Glenn and Deborah are the founders and lead artists in the socially-engaged art
collaborative DOEprojekts. Together, Deborah and Glenn have created participatory
“art actions” in many parts of the world. In addition, the Doerings have co-directed
Glenn & Deborah Doering an alternative art space, taught art and design, and have worked with non-profits
TBA
and for-profit organizations. The Doerings believe that the strength of DOEprojekts
is to find common ground in working with each other, with other artists/artisans, and
with the public – moving contemporary culture toward “the common good.”
Taylor Brorby
Taylor Brorby is an award-winning essayist, and a poet. A fellow at the Black Earth
Institute, Taylor’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, High Country News,
Orion, among others. He is the editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on
Fracking in America and the poetry collection Crude: Poems. He is Reviews Editor at
Orion Magazine.
The State of Fracking
John Noltner
John Noltner is a Minnesota-based photographer. For 25 years he has made images for national magazines, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profit organizations.
In 2009 he founded A Peace of My Mind, a multimedia arts project that explores our
common humanity through portraits and storytelling as he asks people from across
the country to consider the simple question, “What does peace mean to you?”
A Peace of My Mind
Rev. Dr. David Hahn
Rev. David Hahn, Ph. D., serves an assistant of the bishop of the NW WA synod
and an adjunct faculty at Luther Seminary. He is keen on how listening invites a new
imagination for participating more fully with the Spirit’s life in our world.
Acoustic Theology: The Spirituality of Listening
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Faculty
August 7 - 11 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Jamison Stallman
Jamison spent the last two years at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New
York studying Systematic Theology, and especially Dietrich Bonhoeffer, ethics, and
environmental justice.
1. Theological Frameworks
2. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics
3. Bonhoeffer’s Ethics Applied
John Marty
John Marty is a state senator in Minnesota who works for public policies that serve
the entire community, especially the homeless, those without healthcare, and other
vulnerable people. He believes we can build a more peaceful and just society that
protects the environment and leaves a better world for future generations. John is
the author of a recent book, Healing Health Care, which offers a roadmap to universal health care.
With our nation and world more bitterly divided than
ever, there is an urgent need for a new model. We will
consider how, with a clear vision and good courage, we
can build a society where love overcomes hate and we
can work together to address our social, economic, and
environmental challenges.
Rev. Dr. Chris Scharen
Chris Scharen is the Vice President of Applied Research and the Center for the Study
of Theological Education at Auburn Theological Seminary of New York. He is the
author of Someone’s Got To Care: The Roots and Hip Hop as Prophetic Vocation and
Dear White Christians: Examining White Racial Identity in
co-authored Christian Practical Wisdom: What it is, Why it matters and Fieldwork in
the United States
Theology: Exploring the Social Context of God’s Work in the World . He is currently
writing After Laura, a book that is part memoir and part theological engagement
with white racial identity
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Bio
August 14 - 18
Sessions
Philip Brunelle
Artistic Director and Founder of VocalEssence, Minneapolis, MN. Philip Brunelle is
also a choral scholar and conductor.
TBA
David Hahn
Rev. David Hahn, Ph. D., serves an assistant of the bishop of the NW WA synod
and an adjunct faculty at Luther Seminary. He is keen on how listening invites a new
imagination for participating more fully with the Spirit’s life in our world.
Acoustic Theology: The Spirit of Listening
Taylor Brorby
Taylor Brorby is an award-winning essayist, and a poet. A fellow at the Black Earth
Institute, Taylor’s work has appeared in The Huffington Post, High Country News,
Orion, among others. He is the editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on
Fracking in America and the poetry collection Crude: Poems. He is Reviews Editor at
Orion Magazine.
Narrative in Art: How science needs storytelling
John Noltner
John Noltner is a Minnesota-based photographer. For 25 years he has made
images for national magazines, Fortune 500 companies, and non-profit
organizations. In 2009 he founded A Peace of My Mind, a multimedia arts project
that explores our common humanity through portraits and storytelling as he asks
people from across the country to consider the simple question, “What does peace
mean to you?”
A Peace of My Mind
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Nur Mood
August 14 - 18 (cont.)
Bio
Nur Mood serves as the Coordinator of Religious and Spiritual Life
Programs in the Wesley Center for Spirituality, Service and Social
Justice at Hamline University. He was born in Mogadishu, Somalia,
and previously lived in Cairo, Egypt, before immigrating to the United
States in 2004. In his work, Nur supervises the student leaders of
diverse religious and interfaith groups on campus. For two years in a
row, Hamline has received the award of Distinction in Interfaith Service
with the national President’s Higher Education Community Service
Honor Roll.
Sessions
Interfaith Dialogue (with Rev. Nancy Victorin-Vangerud and Rabbi
Esther Adler)
Rev. Nancy Victorin-Vangerud is serves at Hamline University as the
University Chaplain and Director of the Wesley Center for Spirituality,
Service and Social Justice and teaches with religion. Ordained in the
Rev. Nancy Victorin-Vangerud
United Methodist Church, Nancy has served in adult education, youth
and retreat ministry, pastoral leadership, and taught theology on the
faculty at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.
Interfaith Dialogue (with Nur Mood and Rabbi Esther Adler)
Rabbi Esther Adler is the Associate Chaplain of Jewish Life at Hamline
University and the Associate Rabbi at Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul,
MN. Rabbi Adler holds a BA in Flute Performance from UCLA, a
Masters, Rabbinic Ordination and Doctor of Divinity from Hebrew
Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, and a Masters in Jewish
History from Yale University.
Interfaith Dialogue (with Nur Mood and Rev. Nancy VictorinVangerud)
Rabbi Esther Adler
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Faculty
August 14 - 18 (cont.)
Bio
Sessions
Rev. Kirsten Laderach
Kirsten Laderach is a minister of word and sacrament with the ELCA.
She currently lives and works in Madagascar as the Country Coordina- 1. Madagascar - More than a movie
tor for YAGM (Young Adults in Global Mission), a program of the ELCA. 2. Madagascar - A faith of their own
Theologically, she is interested in healing and forgiveness, wholeness,
3. Madagascar - Hidden in plain sight
resurrection and inclusion.
Chris Scharen
Chris Scharen is the Vice President of Applied Research and the Center
for the Study of Theological Education at Auburn Theological Seminary of New York. He is the author of Someone’s Got To Care: The
Dear White Christians: Examining White Racial Identity in the
Roots and Hip Hop as Prophetic Vocation and co-authored Christian
United States
Practical Wisdom: What it is, Why it matters and Fieldwork in Theology: Exploring the Social Context of God’s Work in the World . He is
currently writing After Laura, a book that is part memoir and part theological engagement with white racial identity
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Faculty
August 20 - 26
Bio
Abriendo Caminos
Abriendo Caminos celebrates the Spanish-speaking community in and around Holden Village.
Watch this page for more information!
Sessions
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Faculty
August 28 - September 1
Bio
Sessions
David L Carlson, Ph. D.
David L. Carlson is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver where he founded the Ethics and Ecological Economics Forum
at the Iliff School of Theology. Previously, David served as the natural
resource policy analyst for the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
He recently published two articles on Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Laudato
Si’: (1) “A Song-Inspired Narrative of Resistance” (2015); and (2), “Pope
Francis, Integral Ecology, and the Call for New Thinking.”
Terril Chang/Jeff Louden
Terrill Chang is a mostly-retired environmental engineer from the
Seattle area who specializes in solid waste management. He was involved in the planning and design of large and small waste facilities in
Washington, and he authored Holden’s Solid Waste Management Plan. Holden Garbology through the Ages
He was also involved in the design of the new garbo facilities being
constructed in late 2016. Jeff Louden recently served as one of Holden’s garbologists.
Rev. David M Carlson
David M. Carlson is pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Duluth,
MN. Dave believes the church in general and Lutherans in particular
are well suited to help society address ecological needs and the problems of climate change, and that congregations are ideal settings for
modeling the kind of earth stewardship needed for a more sustainable
world.
1. Pope Francis’ Encyclical, “Laudato Si’ (‘Praise Be’): On Care for
Our Common Home”
2. Laudato Si’: Envisioning a Civilization of Love through Integral
Ecology
3. Climate Change, Laudato Si’, and Hope
1. Earth Stewardship and the Missio Dei - Theoretical Perspectives
2. Earth Stewardship and the Missio Dei - Biblical Perspectives
3. Earth Stewardship and the Missio Dei - Theological Perspectives