The Amish and America
Explores the enigmatic relationship between American and Amish culture in light of Amish history and American consumerism.
Gerald J. Mast
Any number of spiritual topics
Presentations on any number of spiritual topics are available for Sunday morning sermons, spiritual retreats and other special events. Topics could include renewal, spiritual disciplines, discipleship, nonviolence, sports and faith, and relationships or a number of topics relating to youth ministry, particularly addressing youth sponsors retreats and leadership development events.
Randy Keeler
Postmodernism and the church
Describes opportunities for mission and evangelism associated with the decline of the Enlightenment project.
Gerald J. Mast
Swimming with the Web: Then Internet and congregations
Explore the Internet as an opportunity to unfold a congregation's identity in ways that both proclaim the Good News in a new idiom to new peoples and help congregants better understand themselves and their community. Ways that congregations can grow by beginning to swim with (rather than against) this current of culture change will be illustrated and demonstrated.
Trevor Bechtel
Understanding the Book of Ezekiel
Ezekiel is among the most fascinating, awful, hopeful, imaginative, faithful and applicable book of the Old Testament. This presentation looks at the aspects of the book and attempts to probe their significance for Christians today.
Trevor Bechtel
The arts in life and worship
What does art show us about who we are as individuals and as a community? What does it show us about who God is? Are there ways we can discern what a faithful approach to a broad variety of artistic endeavors would look like?
Trevor Bechtel
Digital culture
This presentation introduces several cutting edge technology that exist now or are in development and explores questions about what kind of culture we are shaping with these tools.
Trevor Bechtel
Christian approaches to time
What do the terms Modernity and Postmodernity mean? What happened before Modernity? How do the church and the state fit in? What about God, Jesus, Creation and the End Times? This presentation suggests one way of thinking about these questions; timeline included!
Trevor Bechtel
Creation
Creation is an increasingly controversial topic. This presentation explores ways to think about creation and ecology without abandoning faith or science.
Trevor Bechtel
The Sacred Circle: A symbol of transformation through art history
The one-hour slide/video lecture explores and discusses the circle used by artists as a symbol of unity and completeness from the early Paleolithic period through the modern era and includes the sacred art of Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as the ideas and mandalas of Carl Jung.
Philip Sugden
The last dance at Drigung Dundro: The Tibetan Sky Burial
This 30-minute slide talk introduces the audience to the traditional Tibetan sky burial rite from the first prayers in the courtyard of the monastery to the final mantras and cracking of the skull. Copies of an article by the same title, written by Philip and published in The Explorers Journal, will be made available to members of the audience.
Philip Sugden
For more information or to schedule a speaker, contact the public relations office at news@bluffton.edu at least two weeks prior to your meeting.
