[Update] The Event website at Lovers Lane UMC has each presentation listed and described, with a link to the YouTube recording. The presentation list is also downloadable as a PDF.
POST-WAY-FORWARD GATHERING OF UM SCHOLARS
August 7-8, 2019 - Dallas, Texas
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By Heather Hahn
Aug. 1, 2019 | UM News
At this event, the resistance to the Traditional Plan comes with doctorates.
About 60 United Methodists scholars plan to meet at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas for a gathering they hope will bring biblical, theological and historical heft to arguments for the full inclusion of LGBTQ individuals in the life of the church.
They also hope to help inform conversations about the future of The United Methodist Church.
The event, called the Post-Way-Forward Gathering of UM Scholars, will include 34 presentations that will be livestreamed starting at 8:30 a.m. CDT Aug. 7 and 8:15 a.m. Aug. 8. After the gathering, the event organizers plan to upload the presentations to YouTube.
“The idea is that we’re not just gathering to talk to ourselves. We’re not just livestreaming so people can overhear,” said the Rev. O. Wesley Allen Jr., co-convener of the gathering. “We’ve asked presenters to speak to the wider church.”
Allen, the Lois Craddock Perkins professor of homiletics at Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology, said each presentation would be about 15 minutes long. He envisions Sunday school classes and other church groups using the presentations. He also could see congregations inviting participating scholars to speak.
The event, which is independent of Perkins, is receiving financial support from Lovers Lane and other local churches....
Allen wants the August gathering to add scholarly voices to the centrist and progressive side of the conversation about the church after General Conference 2019. He said dialogue with more traditionalist scholars might come later. [More at UMNews.org, including links to live-streaming and schedule of speakers.]
[The Event website at Lovers Lane UMC] [Cynthia Astle's story at UM-Insight.org]