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Search For Meaning Book Festival 2011: Schedule of Events

February 5, 2011, Search for Meaning: Pacific Northwest Spirituality Book Festival will bring together the best regional authors and works on issues of spirituality, faith, church-state matters, and theology.

Keynote Presentations: The two keynote presentations will take place in Pigott Auditorium as indicated below. 

Sessions (1, 2, 3): Each author will give a 45 minute presentation including questions and answers. Seating is limited in each room and is available on a first come-first served basis. If your first choice for a session is full please feel free to visit your second choice author.

Book Signings: Each author, including keynote presenters, will be available to sign books in the Pigott Atrium immediately following his or her presentation.

Spanish Sessions: 
There will be three presentations conducted in Spanish.

  • Leticia Guardiola-Sáenz, PhD | ROOM 101 | 9:00am 
         
    "Cómo Leer con Honestidad: Cultura y Biblia en el Siglo XXI"
           Becoming Honest Readers: Culture and Bible in the 21st Century
  •  Rev. Dr. Vincent J. Pastro, D.Min. | ROOM 201 | 1:00pm 
         Proclaiming the Sacramental Word of the God of the Poor
  • Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD | ROOM 305     Buscando espiritualidad en la literatura latina
            Looking for Spirituality in Latina Literature    


(Please note: Schedule subject to change)

8:00AM-9:00am

DOORS OPEN  
Author Check-in

 

9:00am-9:45am

SESSION 1 
Author Presentations
Pigott Building 

Sharon A. Bray, Ed.D. | ROOM 201
Healing Others, Healing Ourselves: The Power of Writing

Bruce Brown | ROOM 100
God, Demon, Servant, Master, Parasite or Provider—What is the Corporation?

 Dr. John W. Gibson | ROOM 203
Nothing Was the Same: Love, Illness and Personal Safety Nets Under the Shadow of Giving and Receiving Care

Leticia Guardiola-Sáenz, Ph.D. | ROOM 101
"Cómo Leer con Honestidad: Cultura y Biblia en el Siglo XXI"
Becoming Honest Readers: Culture and Bible in the 21st Century 
(This presentation will be conducted in Spanish.)

Andrew Himes | ROOM 304
Jesus Was a Fundamentalist and So Am I: Living the Fundamentals in the Age of the Spirit

Patrick Howell, SJ, D.Min. | ROOM 305
Desire as an Avenue of Mystery: From Breakdown to Integration

IMAGE Journal Staff (Mary Kenagy Mitchell, MFA, Anna Johnson, Taylor Morris) | ROOM 309
How Does a Literary Journal Search for Meaning?

Nancy Clare Kehoe, RSCJ, PhD | ROOM 306
Wrestling with Our Inner Angels: The Journey to Wholeness

Leticia Nieto, Psy.D. | ROOM 102
Inclusion is Not Enough: Moment to Moment Strategic Cultural Competence

Brenda Peterson | ROOM 204
Writing Your Spiritual Memoir: From Seeker to Storyteller

Rev. Michael Raschko, Ph.D. | ROOM 202
To Hunger for God

 Rev. Suzanne K. Seaton, MSW | ROOM 308
Finding the Authentic Self

Alexander J. Shaia, Ph.D. | ROOM 205
The Courage to Live Free: Four Questions, Four Paths, the One Journey (for All)

Diane R. Walker | ROOM 103
Encounters with the Sacred: Contemplative Photography as an Act of Faith

Susie Leonard Weller, MA | ROOM 105
Why Don’t You Think the Way I Do About Spirituality?

  G. Willow Wilson | ROOM 307
Pious Trash: Religious Writing for a Secular Audience

9:45am-10:15am

BOOK SIGNING 
Pigott Atrium

Session 1 Authors
10:15am-11:45am

MAIN SESSION 1 
Keynote Presentation
Pigott Auditorium 

Anne Lamott

11:45am-12:15pm

BOOK SIGNING 
Pigott Atrium

Anne Lamott
11:45pm-1:00pm Lunch  
1:00pm-1:45pm

SESSION 2 
Author Presentations
Pigott Building 

Valerie Albrecht, MA Writing, B.SP.Path | ROOM 304
Mother - A Reflection of God's Love

Sheila Bender, M.A. in Creative Writing, M.A. in Teaching | ROOM 103
Writing Through Grief: The Healing Power of Metaphor, Images and Details that Appeal to the Senses

Marcus Brotherton, M.A. | ROOM 204
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: How the Band of Brothers Inspires Us to Unlikely Greatness

Sr. Madonna Buder, MA, MC | PIGOTT AUDITORIUM The Grace to Race: 

Carol Wiley Cassella, MD | ROOM 102
Intimate with Strangers: Creative Writing as an Act of Spiritual Self-Discovery and Revelation

Fran Ferder, FSPA, Ph.D. | ROOM 202
Enter the Story: Encountering the Holy in Everyday Life

Catherine Echon Haffner | ROOM 203
Life’s What You Think—Making Your Life a Little Better

Kurt Hoelting, MDiv | ROOM 307
The Art of Homecoming: Reconnecting Place with Purpose in an Age of Ecological Disruption

Interfaith Amigos
(Rabbi Ted Falcon, Ph.D., Pastor Don Mackenzie, Ph.D., Sheikh Jamal Rahman, M.A.) | R00M 100
Getting to the Heart of Interfaith

Rev. Katherine C. (Kedda) Keough, MDiv | ROOM 306
What Difference, If Any, Does it Make to Be a Christian?

Susan Little, MA | ROOM 305
Mary Magdalene: Searching for God in an Intolerant World

Margaret D. McGee, MA | ROOM 308 The Heart of a Moment: Haiku in Spiritual Practice and Direction

Rev. Dr. Vincent J. Pastro, D.Min. | ROOM 201 Proclaiming the Sacramental Word of the God of the Poor
(This presentation will be conducted in Spanish.)

Mark P. Shea | ROOM 205
Mary, Mother of the Son: The Blessed Virgin in the Life of the Church

Rabbi Daniel A. Weiner | ROOM 309 Protesting Too Much: The Futile Pursuit of a Godless Morality

 Rev. Dr. George Wilson, SJ | ROOM 105
Clericalism: The Church Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on It

Dori Jones Yang | ROOM 101
What Marco Polo and I Learned about Christianity in Asia

1:45pm-2:15pm

BOOK SIGNING 
Pigott Atrium

Session 2 Authors
2:15pm-3:00pm

SESSION 3 
Author Presentations
Pigott Building 

Ellie Belew | ROOM 102
Everyday Stories that Matter: Witnessing the Sacred in the Mundane

Christina Dudley | ROOM 201
Church Librarians Beware: Writing So-Called “Christian Fiction” from the Edge

Rev. Dr. Bob Ekblad, Th.D. | ROOM 100
Pledging Allegiance to Jesus and God’s Realm Amidst the Poor

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD | ROOM 305
Buscando espiritualidad en la literatura latina
Looking for Spirituality in Latina Literature
(This presentation will be conducted in Spanish.)

Michael Hansen | ROOM 105
Another Way to Be – The Path Within

Lyanda Lynn Haupt | ROOM 103
Monk and the Crow: Finding Grace and Wisdom in the Urban Wilderness

Rev. John Heagle, JCL | ROOM 202
Justice Rising: The Emerging Quest for Inclusion and Solidarity

Rev. Terry Hershey | ROOM 203
The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less

 Dr. Gordon J. Hilsman, D. Min. | ROOM 304
"The Spirituality of Intimate Loving: Filling a Hole in Catholic Theology"

Wes Howard-Brook, MDiv | ROOM 204
“Come Out, My People!” God’s Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond

Maggie Kast, MA, MFA | ROOM 101
How Loss Can Give Birth to Faith: One Woman’s Incredible Journey  

Dr. Lawrence Matsuda | ROOM 306
Out From My Father’s Shadow

Mallory McDuff, Ph.D. | ROOM 205
Natural Saints: How People of Faith are Working to Save God’s Earth

 Dr. Patricia Clemens Repikoff, D.Min. | ROOM 308
Dashed Dreams and Diamonds: Recovering Hope from the Margins

Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper | ROOM 307
Grass Roots Gardening: Rituals to Sustain Activism and How to Stay Well While Changing the World 

Jan Vallone, JD, MAT, MFA Creative Writing | ROOM 309
Pieces of Someday: Finding Meaning in the Work We Do

3:00pm-3:30pm

BOOK SIGNING 
Pigott Atrium

Session 3 Authors
3:30pm-5:00pm

MAIN SESSION 2 
Keynote Presentation
Pigott Auditorium 

Tariq Ramadan

5:00pm-5:30pm

BOOK SIGNING 
Pigott Atrium

Tariq Ramadan

 

 

 

 

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