2017 Bast Preaching Festival

After earning his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, Richard J. Mouw taught in the Calvin College Philosophy Department for 17 years. In 1985 he moved to Fuller Theological Seminary, and beginning in 1993 he served as Fuller’s president for two decades. He has now returned to full-time teaching at Fuller as Professor of Faith and Public Life. The author of 20 books, in 2007 Princeton Theological Seminary awarded him the Abraham Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life. He served for six years as co-chair of the official Reformed-Catholic Dialogue and is a leader in interfaith theological conversations, particularly with Mormons and Jewish groups. In 2012 the American Jewish Committee presented him with its first Shalom Award for Interfaith Cooperation.

SCHEDULE:

(the festival will be at Haworth Inn & Conference Center this year)

8:00am Registration  (Haworth: Skylight Room)
8:30-9:30 Session One: “Discipleship Today: Some Major Challenges” by Richard Mouw  (Haworth: Ballrooms I & III)
9:40-10:30 Chapel & Break  (at Western Seminary:  Mulder Chapel & Atrium)
10:30-11:30 Workshops by Sue Rozeboom, James Ellis, Jared Ayers, and Ron Rienstra  (Haworth:  Various Rooms)
11:30-12:45pm Lunch – $10.00 Voucher for downtown restaurants
1:00-2:15 Workshops (same offering as morning)  (Haworth:  various rooms)
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:20 Session Two: “Formation for Holy Worldliness” by Richard Mouw  (Haworth: Ballrooms I & III)
3:20-3:30 Closing

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