[Uucf-bible] Update on Revival/Retreat 2010 in Dallas area while early discount rate applies

[RevRonRobinson at aol.com]

Hi all. Come join with the following people who will be at  Revival/Retreat 
2010: Oct. 14-17, (with Friday and Saturday registration  available for 
those unable to come Thurs through Sunday). Horizon UU Church,  Carrollton, TX
 
 
We have wonderful presenters of lectures, workshops, and worships that will 
 make Revival a truly transforming experience for you and for all of us. 
Get all  the details and register online while early discount is available 
(until Sept.  19) at _www.uuchristian.org/revival_ 
(http://www.uuchristian.org/revival) . See  this lineup:
 
Keynote Lecturers: Dr. Brandon Scott and Rev. John Buehrens. 
 
Brandon is a leading scholar of the parables of Jesus, a founding fellow of 
 the Jesus Seminar, distinguished professor of New Testament at Phillips  
Theological Seminary, author of Hear Then The Parable, Reimagining The World, 
 Biblical Stories and Hollywood Dreams, Jesus The Symbol Maker, Sound 
Mapping the  New Testament, and others, with a major work on Reimagining the 
Resurrection due  out this October. He is a commentator on the historical Jesus 
on the DVD  curriculums by _www.livingthequestions.com_ 
(http://www.livingthequestions.com) . 
 
John is past president of the UUA, pastor of UU churches in Knoxville,  
Dallas, New York, and now Needham, MA. He is author or co-author of Our Chosen  
Faith, Understanding the Bible, and the new A House for Hope: The Promise 
of  Progressive Religion for the 21st Century, and has taught at seminaries 
and been  active in social justice and interfaith causes. 
 
Workshop Presenters:
Dr. Ruben Habito of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist  
University who will present a workshop on Christian Faith and Buddhist Practice.  
He is the president of the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies and is 
the  author of Experiencing Buddhism: Ways of Wisdom and Compassion (Orbis  
Books, 2005); Living Zen, Loving God (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004);  
"Compassion Out of Wisdom: Buddhist Perspectives from the Past toward the Human 
 Future," in Stephen Post, et.al., eds., Altruism and Altruistic Love  
(Oxford University Press, 2002); Healing Breath: Zen Spirituality for a  Wounded 
Earth (MKZC Publications, 2001); Originary Enlightenment: Tendai  Hongaku 
Doctrine and Japenese Buddhism (International Institute for Advanced  
Buddhist Studies, 1996); Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective:  Contemporary 
Challenges to the Church, co-edited with Don Pittman and Terry  Muck (Wm. 
Eerdmans and Co.)
 
Rev. Naomi King received her Masters of Divinity from Meadville Lombard and 
 has served most recently the River of Grass UU Congregation in Florida. 
She was  an intern minister at Horizon UU Church in Texas and has been active 
in the  movement for sustainable agriculture on a global basis with Project 
Harvest  Hope. She was a communion service preacher for the UUCF at General 
Assembly in  2006. 
 
Rev. Thom Belote is minister of Shawnee Mission UU Church in Overland Park, 
 Kansas and is editor of the new book "The Growing Church: Keys to 
Congregational  Vitality. In his seven years at his church it has grown by 50 
percent. He has  served on the Executive Committee of the UU Ministers Association 
as well as an  internship at Horizon UU Church in Texas, and student 
ministries in Needham and  Boston, MA. He received his Masters of Divinity from 
Harvard. 
 
Rev. Lillie Mae Henley is minister of Universalist National Memorial Church 
 in Washington, D.C., an historic Universalist Christian church called the  
Universalist National Cathedral when it was built. She received her Masters 
of  Divinity from Meadville Lombard and was minister of Westside UU Church 
in Fort  Worth and served as interim in three other UU congregations. She 
has served on  the Board of the UUCF and was the Revival communion preacher in 
2009. 
 
Rev. Dennis Hamilton is minister of the host church Horizon in Carrolton,  
Texas. He is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry and was 
Horizon's  first minister as part of the UUA extension ministry program. He has 
been a  leader in the Southwest UU Conference and UU Musicians Network serving 
on the  task force that developed the new hymnal supplement Singing The J
ourney. 
 
Rev. Ron Robinson has been Executive Director of the UUCF since 2003 and is 
 a missional church planter in the northside of Tulsa, OK with A Third 
Place  Community, and serves as Director of Ministerial Formation and part time 
faculty  at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa where he received his 
Masters of  Divinity. He has been a hospice chaplain, student minister in 
Bartlesville, OK,  intern minister at All Souls Church in Tulsa, and started the 
UU Congregation of  Tahlequah, OK. 
 
Worship team leader for Revival is the Rev. Tony Lorenzen of Pathways UU  
Church in Southlake, TX, who is a member of the UUCF Board of Directors and  
was an intern minister at First Parish in Weston, He received his Masters of 
 Divinity from Harvard and also served with the First Parish Church in  
Billerica, MA. 
 
Worship Leaders will include:
 
Opening Worship with multi church choir and presented by ministers from the 
 Dallas Fort Worth area
 
Taize Worship with the Rev. Jonalu Johnstone, program minister of First  
Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City who has also served as the District Growth  
minister of the Southwestern Conference and at James Reeb UU Church, a new  
congregation start in Madison, WI. She has been president of the national  
Interweave organization. She was the prayer and healing service preacher at  
Revival 2009 and presented the Sunset Talks at the 2009 Southwest UU Summer  
Institute. 
 
Communion and Baptism worship will be led by the Rev. Thomas D. Wintle who  
is senior minister at First Parish Church in Weston, MA. He previously 
served  with the First Church of Christ, Unitarian, in Lancaster, MA, and as 
Executive  Director of the UUCF. For thirty years he has been editor of the UU 
Christian  Journal. He received his Doctorate from Chicago Theological 
Seminary affiliated  with the University of Chicago. 
 
Prayer and Healing Service will be led by the Rev. David Owen O'Quill  
founding pastor of Micah's Porch Community Church in Chicago. He is a  graduate 
of Meadville Lombard and has served at the UU Church in Corpus Christi,  
Texas. 
 
Daily Office morning and  evening prayer will be led by the Rev.  Dr. 
Suzanne Spencer, who has served UU churches in Danbury, CT and Weston,  MA, 
Vancouver, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. She holds a law degree from  Boston 
University and theological degrees from Harvard and the Episcopal  Divinity 
School in Cambridge, MA. 
 
Small Group Leader again this year will be the Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger 
 of the Greater Unitarian Universalist church in New Orleans, who has 
previously  served churches in New Jersey and Tennessee and New Zealand and is a 
past  president of the UUCF and preacher at Revivals in the past. She 
received her  theological degree from Loyola Institute of Ministry. 
 
blessings, Ron Robinson
Turley, OK
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