2024 Agenda

All Times Eastern Daylight (UTC -04:00)

Please note that session from only one venue will be broadcast via our free livestream.

Monday, May 13, 2024

Session Name	Venue	Speakers	Session Time
Registration / Check-in	East Liberty Presbyterian	Festival Staff	2:00pm
Welcome and Land Acknowledgment	East Liberty Presbyterian	Karoline Lewis	6:00pm
Opening Worship: “When Little Faith Is Enough” a sermon on Matthew 8:23-27	East Liberty Presbyterian	Karoline Lewis	6:30pm
Opening Lecture: “Accountability Strategies For Preaching In Chaos With An Eye On Justice And Hope”	East Liberty Presbyterian	Emilie M. Townes	7:30pm

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Session Name	Venue	Speakers	Session Time
“The Theology of Somehow” a sermon on Psalm 124	East Liberty Presbyterian	Emilie M. Townes	9:00am
Morning Liturgy & Music	Calvary Episcopal Church		9:00am
Lecture: “Power, Control, and Story”	Calvary Episcopal Church	Pádraig Ó Tuama	9:10am
Morning Break	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		10:00am
Lecture: “A Word for Trauma Survivors: Pathways to Healing and Wholeness”	East Liberty Presbyterian	Thema Bryant	10:30am
Interview: Karoline Lewis with Pádraig Ó Tuama	Calvary Episcopal Church	Karoline Lewis Pádraig Ó Tuama	10:30am
Lunch	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		11:30am
Sojourners Presentation: “Protecting Imago Dei in an Election Year”	East Liberty Presbyterian		12:00pm
Lecture: “She Wasn’t on the Roof: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, the Women of Jesus’ Genealogy”	East Liberty Presbyterian	Anna Carter Florence	1:30pm
Lecture: “Creating on the Edge of Chaos: Preaching as Personal Revival”	Calvary Episcopal Church	Mark Andrew Jefferson	1:30pm
Workshop: “When God Became White”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Chapel)	Grace Ji-Sun Kim	1:30pm
Workshop: “Homiletical Self-Care When Every Text Is Out to Get You”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Knox)	Karoline Lewis Matthew L. Skinner	1:30pm
“Letting Go For Dear Life” a sermon on Matthew 13:1-9	East Liberty Presbyterian	Amy Butler	2:30pm
“Community on a Cliff” a sermon on Luke 4:16-32	Calvary Episcopal Church	Mark Andrew Jefferson	2:30pm
Workshop: “Preaching From the Heart: Reconciliation in a Polarized Society”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Knox)	Raymond Aldred	3:00pm
Workshop: The Difference It Makes to Block a Text	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Chapel)	Anna Carter Florence	3:00pm
Afternoon Break	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		3:30pm
Pause & Reflect: Expressive Art	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Kadel Dining Room)	Rachel Postler	4:00pm
Pause & Reflect: Taizé Prayer in the Chapel	East Liberty Presbyterian	BJ Woodworth	4:00pm

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Session Name	Venue	Speakers	Session Time
“To Be Healed from Service” a sermon on John 5: 1-11	Calvary Episcopal Church	Willie Jennings	9:00am
“Give to God What is God’s” a sermon on Matthew 22:15-21	East Liberty Presbyterian	Grace Ji-Sun Kim	9:00am
Morning Break	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		10:00am
Lecture: “The Rest of the Story: Biblical Narrative and Slow Preaching”	Calvary Episcopal Church	Angela Dienhart Hancock	10:30am
Lecture: “You Have Permission”	East Liberty Presbyterian	Brian D. McLaren	10:30am
Lunch	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		11:30am
Lecture: “Preaching Your Way Through an Apocalypse: Homiletics of Feral Hope amid Collapse”	Calvary Episcopal Church	Cody J. Sanders	1:30pm
Workshop: “Telling a Story that Matters”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Knox)	Amy Butler	1:30pm
Workshop: “Queering Homiletics”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Chapel)	Nicole M. Garcia	1:30pm
Lecture: “To Give Witness to Communion”	East Liberty Presbyterian	Willie Jennings	1:30pm
Sermon: “Fixing Broken Theology,” a sermon on Genesis 3: 1-24	East Liberty Presbyterian	Jacqueline J. Lewis	2:30pm
“The Sanctifying Work of the Suffering Church” a sermon on John 17:13-19	Calvary Episcopal Church	Raymond Aldred	2:30pm
Workshop: “A Spirituality of Preaching”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Knox)	Rolf A. Jacobson	3:00pm
Workshop: “Preaching From the Connected Self”	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Chapel)	Brian D. McLaren	3:00pm
Afternoon Break	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		3:30pm
Pause & Reflect: Cathedral Yoga in the Main Sanctuary	East Liberty Presbyterian	Dawn Yamuna Morgenstern	4:00pm
Pause & Reflect: Jews Praying in a Church?	Calvary Episcopal Church	Jeffrey Myers Jonathon Jensen	4:00pm
Beer & Hymns	Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Kadel Dining Room)	The Fleshpots of Egypt	5:30pm

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Session Name	Venue	Speakers	Session Time
“God of Our Weary Years,” a sermon on Exodus 5:1-9	Calvary Episcopal Church	Otis Moss III	9:00am
“A Survival Guide for Castaways, Preachers, and Other Storm-Tossed Travelers” a sermon on Acts 27:1, 6-44	East Liberty Presbyterian	Matthew L. Skinner	9:00am
Morning Break	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		10:00am
Lecture: “Preaching for Social Change: Black Queer Hermeneutics and Homiletics”	East Liberty Presbyterian	Brandon Thomas Crowley	10:30am
Lecture: “The Inward Journey and The Art of Preaching”	Calvary Episcopal Church	Otis Moss III	10:30am
Lunch	Calvary Episcopal Church East Liberty Presbyterian		11:30am
Lecture: “In the Next Six Days”	Calvary Episcopal Church	Joy J. Moore	1:30pm
Afternoon Break	Calvary Episcopal Church		2:30pm
Closing Worship: “This Is My Story” a sermon on Luke 1:46-55	Calvary Episcopal Church	Neichelle R. Guidry	3:00pm

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