Well, the summer of conferences has begun. This last week, I spent time with Annie and many other friends in Hyde Park. We talked about being Lutheran and Episcopal Chaplains on college campuses. It was really helpful to make connections and talk with people about ministry. They keynote speaker, Lauren Winner, was pretty controversial. She brought up some interesting points, but often avoided tackling hard questions. When we looked at her books, we found them to be more memoir than theological reflection. I was really missing the theological reflection that could be done around the topics of money, sex, and time. I think that these are really important issues to discuss, but there are no easy answers and she seemed to think that there was one simple solution for any of these can just be put into place and this will solve the problem. With sex – everyone needs to stop having pre-marital sex and all sexual morality issues will be solved. (And we won’t talk about same-sex relationships.)
The conference overall was good – though, I also missed a good conversation between the Lutherans and Episcopalians – the challenge to do things together. Some examples of what people are doing would be helpful. It would be nice to have a list of resources and options and new ideas.
Posted by Heather Voss at June 27, 2005 10:40 PM