Rev. Dr. Cecil “Mel” Robeck, Jr.
Professor of Church History and Ecumenics and Director of the David J. DuPlessis Center for Christian Spirituality, Fuller Theological Seminary
2009 Closing Plenary Address
Category Archives: 2009 NWCU
UMEIT: Dr. Stephen Kim
EIF-PCUSA: Clifton Kirkpatrick’s workshop
Responses to Ut Unim Sint by Father Ron Roberson
2009 Bible Study: Margaret Mitchell
Dr. Margaret Mitchell, Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School, led the attendees in a study in which she shared some of her work on the Corinthian letters. The NWCU Bible Study is sponsored by the American Bible Society which makes a generous gift to help underwrite the cost of our event. Prof. Mitchell is currently revising for publication her 2008 Speaker’s Lectures at Oxford University,“The Corinthian Correspondence and the Birth of Christian Hermeneutics,” She worked to give us an overview of how I Corinthians should be approached and read. She reminded us that the central message is an appeal for Christian Unity in which St. Paul warns that Christ’s Body is being torn “limb to limb.” Paul calls for reconciliation, using the medical term which in Greek refers to the act of re-setting a dislocated limb. Paul warns them that those who destroy the unity of the Body will be destroyed by God.
2009 Keynote Address
In their first Plenary Session, attendees heard the NWCU Keynote Address, which was again sponsored by Order of St. Lazarus. Making the Keynote Address, for the 2009 NWCU, was Metropolitan Gerasimos, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Metropolitan Girasimos’s address raised important issues and at the same time challenged participants. In his opening remarks he said, “Where is the common base from which we can rebuild the Body of Christ?”
He reminded us that the task of Christians is to keep the Body of Christ united, and where it is divided, to work for its reconciliation.
2009 Opening Worship Sermon by Dr. Clifton Kirkpatrick
The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Clifton Kirkpatrick, President of the World Alliance of Reformed (WARC). Prior to his retirement in 2008, Dr. Kirkpatrick served as the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA). The service included several anthem by Choirs and Musical Performers from the Phoenix area.
2009 Workshop Brochure
2009 Workshop Seminars
2009 Local Planning Committee
Phoenix
The Rev. Jan Olav Flaaten
Chair, Local Planning Committee
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Loretta Tracey
Event Registration
Catholic
John Meyer
Local Treasurer
Catholic
Fr. Andrew Barakos
Greek Orthodox
Dr. Jerrye Champion
African Methodist Episcopal
Fr. Michael Diskin
Catholic
The Rev. Nancy Elsenheimer
United Church of Christ
The Rev. Al Gephart
Presbyterian Church, USA
The Very Rev. Nick Knisely
Episcopal
The Rev. Mari Larson
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
The Rev. Bruce Laverman
Reformed Church in America
The Rev. Laura O’Neil
United Methodist
Fr. Ron Poston
Episcopal
Dr. Barry Sargent
Catholic
Lee Tracey
Catholic
The Rev. Jan Trulock
Disciples of Christ
The Rev. Al Whaley
Mennonite