10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Academic Complex 215
Pre-lecture class: “Katrina and the Common Good” video and discussion
Dr. Darby Ray will moderate the pre-lecture session.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex
“Christian Ethics in Civil Society: Desiring Deeply Enough and Dissenting Widely Enough for a Common Good”
Dr. Paula Cooey, presenter
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Rooms B & C Leggett Center
Campbell College Center
“Thinking it Through: Lunch and Responses to the Summers Lecture”
Panelists:
Rev. Janet Ott, retired Episcopal priest;
Rev. Sherry Johnson, United Methodist elder, Associate Director of the Center for Ministry at Millsaps;
Rev. Jill Barnes Buckley, Associate Pastor for Community Ministry, Northminster Baptist Church;
Mr. Thomas Richardson, senior Religious Studies major, Millsaps College;
Dr. Darby Ray, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Millsaps College
Lunch cost: $5 or bring your own
(Reserve your lunch using the printed brochure reservation, or you may call 601-974-1483 or email barkskb@millsaps.edu to reserve a lunch)
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Room A Leggett Center
Campbell College Center
Dessert and Discussion
A plenary talk-back session with Professor Paula Cooey
(Persons may participate in as many of the activities as their schedules allow.
Those seeking ½ CEU must attend all activities to receive certification).
About the lecturer
Paula Cooey serves as the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religion at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. A graduate of Harvard University (PhD), Harvard Divinity School (MTS), and the University of Georgia (BA), she is an award-winning teacher of courses in the history of Christian traditions, Christianity and Culture, and theories of religion. These courses include “Jesus, Dissent, & Desire,” “Love & Death,” “The Sacred & the Sword,” and “Contemporary Christian Thought.”
Professor Cooey has written several books and articles, including Family, Freedom and Faith (1996) and Religious Imagination and the Body (1994). Her latest book, Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent, & Desire, was published by Augsburg Fortress Press in 2006. Appointed to the Macalester faculty in 1999, she currently focuses her research on what it means to understand religion by examining religious life and practice in contexts of conflict, disruption, and assimilation, comparatively with other religious traditions and with secularism.
