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  • 2022 Lancaster Theological Seminary DMin Symposium

    Monday, April 4, 2022

    Symposium presentations will be conducted online using Zoom.

    Schedule of Events
    Time Presenter Topic
    9:45 a.m.   Devotions
    10:00-10:50 a.m.  Nora Driver Foust  "Competency-Based Assessment for Ministerial Authorization in the UCC: A Model for Implementation"
    11:00-11:50 a.m.  Wendell Yorkman  "Grappling with Grace: An Illumination of the Degree to Which Theory and Praxis Agree in the Matter of Grace in the African American Pentecostal Holiness Tradition"
    12:00-1:00 p.m.  Lunch Break  
    1:00‑1:50 p.m.  James L. Mills  "Coming Home: Inward Discovery for Outward Living after Long-Term Incarceration; Howard Thurman’s Notion of Community, Religious Experience, and the Inner-Life as Tools for Freedom and Wholeness after Incarceration"
    2:00‑2:50 p.m.  Richelle Foreman Gunter  "Are We There?: Journeys of Faith and the Role of Racialized Trauma in Individuals Who Identify as Religiously Unaffiliated"
    3:00 p.m.  Closing, followed by social time  
    All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -4:00)

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      Recommended: Test your equipment and Internet connection before Symposium Day. (Note: You may be prompted to download the Zoom app.)

    • Presentation Details for Current DMin Students and Guests

      • Presenters are listed below in schedule order
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        • Supporting documents provided by presenter (if applicable)
        • Online evaluation form (made available at the time of presentation)
        • Recorded presentation (available after the Symposium concludes)

◄11:00 a.m. - Wendell Yorkman2:00 p.m. - Richelle Foreman Gunter►

1:00 p.m. - James L. Mills

  • 1:00 p.m. - James L. Mills

    Coming Home: Inward Discovery for Outward Living after Long-Term Incarceration; Howard Thurman’s Notion of Community, Religious Experience, and the Inner-Life as Tools for Freedom and Wholeness after Incarceration

    Time: 1:00-1:50 p.m.

    Abstract

    The purpose of the research is to examine Dr. Howard Washington Thurman’s notions of community, religious experience, and an inward journey are potentially helpful tools of reentry from long-term incarceration. The project looks at the origin of the American prison-industrial complex through the twenty-first century and its impact on marginalized people of color. There is robust research on programmatic needs coming out of prisons, such as financial and housing assistance and vocational training. Returning citizens also need help to deal with inward wounds and traumas of life and incarceration. Howard Thurman’s notion of community, religious experience, and the inner-life offer a pathway to wholeness to those regaining their footing in society.

◄11:00 a.m. - Wendell Yorkman2:00 p.m. - Richelle Foreman Gunter►