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2010 Schedule Thursday, April 15 april 15-17, 2010 SCHEDULE THURSDAY, APRIL 15 12:00–1:15 P.M. OPENING SESSION Embodied Faith: Not What You Think Scott Cairns Van Noord Arena 1:45–2:45 P.M. A M 9:00 . CONCURRENT SESSIONS Registration Desk Opens Backborn Prince Conference Center Lobby (2.0 hours) Written by András Visky and directed by Stephanie Sandberg, Backborn is an existential comedy that asks how we might transcend the destruction of 10:00–10:20 A.M. humanity. An everyman fi gure, returning home from a prison camp, fi nds himself unable to reintegrate Chapel Service into culture and society. Set in the aftermath of Sally Lloyd-Jones leads a time of prayer and refl ection World War II, this play explores the meaning of for the Calvin community and Festival guests. imprisonment and the ways in which the grace of relationships gives us hope and sustains us through Chapel the bleakest moments of existence. The playwright and director will discuss the play with the audience immediately following the performance. Because of the staging of the play, neither late arrivals nor early 10:30–11:15 A.M. departures are permitted. Lab Theatre READINGS In these sessions, we feature several authors who are new Facebook Revolution: How Writers Can Use to the Festival of Faith and Writing. We hope you enjoy becoming more acquainted with them and their work. Social Media to Build Their Readership Jason Boyett, Greg Daniel, Kelly Hughes, Jana Riess, and Lisa Samson David and Diane Munson Got Twitter? In this panel, three authors, an agent, Bytwerk Theatre and a professional book publicist discuss the importance of social media sites and blogging. What Matt Ruff should writers do—and, just as importantly, not do— Alumni Association Board Room to help facilitate digital community and conversation among their readers? This session provides clarity on the phenomenon of social media and presents Lisa Samson successful strategies for writers who are attempting Chapel Undercroft to build a platform before submitting a book proposal or are trying to encourage conversations Tim Stafford around a just-published book. Commons Lecture Hall Gezon Auditorium Sara Zarr Science Building, Room 010 THURSDAY Schedule • 4/15 10 Frederick Manfred: A Novelist, His People, Joy, Heartache, and Friendship: and Their Families The Place of Romance and Sisterhood James Schaap Novels in Christian Fiction James Schaap, a fellow “Siouxlander,” explores the Holly Hill-Stanford and Linda Tappmeyer legacy of novelist Frederick Manfred and conveys an This session examines the validity of romance old story about the novelist and his townspeople—a and sisterhood novels in the canon of Christian story that raises questions about the conflicts that literature by acquainting readers with the common can happen between writers and their subjects. characteristics of these works and by focusing on their Seminary Chapel spiritual benefits and literary quality. The works of selected romance and sisterhood authors, including The Heart’s Downward Ascent: Francine Rivers, Jillian Hart, Robin Jones Gunn, and Catherine Palmer, provide supporting examples. An Erotics of Duty Alumni Association Board Room John Estes This session provides a study of the directionality— up/down, higher/lower—that we reflexively employ Memoirs of Radical Faith: Ed Dobson and to situate ourselves within our spiritual lives, and Sara Miles in Conversation examines the relationship between this vertical Two writers who identify with very different dimension of the Christian imagination and the Christian subcultures talk about trying to follow writer’s practice of work. Jesus as literally as possible. Both faced opposition Seminary Auditorium from other Christians, discovered beauty in the stranger, found themselves transformed—and wrote about it all. If You Can Use Anything, Lord Chapel Sharon Flake Young adult novelist Sharon Flake discusses how God used the broken pieces of her life—along with The Power of Visual Imagery her fear and insecurities—and turned them into a Barbara Nicolosi successful writing career. The lesson: all writers, no Long before the advent of movies changed the pacing matter how inadequate they may feel, already have and style of popular storytelling, the greatest writers what they need to be successful. understood that “a picture is worth a thousand Science Building, Room 010 words.” Nothing gets a story stuck in a reader’s mind like a lyrical image to expand, mirror, and add complexity to a project’s theme. In this session, An Interview with Wally Lamb Barbara Nicolosi discusses how to create powerful Karen Saupe interviews Wally Lamb on the concept visual metaphors and how to avoid maudlin ones, of the labyrinth, his strategies for discovering and encouraging writers to embrace mystery. developing stories, and the themes and variations Commons Lecture Hall that run through his novels. Van Noord Arena A Reading by Robert Siegel Chapel Undercroft 2:45–3:15 P.M. Coffee Break Prince Fireside Room, Library Lobby, AY Gezon Auditorium Lobby D THURS “My advice to the writer? Two things: write only if you feel you can do nothing elsev, and only write books that no one else can write but you.” Elie Wiesel, Festival 1998 Schedule • 4/15 11 SCHEDULE THURSDAY, ApRIL 15 An Interview with Eugene Peterson 3:15–4:15 P.M. Eugene Peterson is a prolific author in a variety COncurrent SessiOns of writing styles: sermons, memoir, ministry reflections, theology, and biblical translation/ paraphrase. In this interview, Scott Hoezee asks “All Things Shining”: An Appreciation him to reflect on his writing across these many of Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line different forms and to provide suggestions for Roy Anker writers who seek likewise to prove themselves Roy Anker discusses the cinematic wonders and nimble in a variety of literary formats. significance of Terrence Malick’s remarkable Chapel World War II film, The Thin Red Line—a searching exploration of the ways in which the divine shows up Invisible Books: Non-Fiction in the worst of all places. Lisa Ann Cockrel, Lil Copan, and John Wilson Bytwerk Theatre Good books are routinely lost in the shuffle. Three editors highlight a few books that deserve to be Answering the Text: A Poetics of Reading widely known—books which, in their unpredictable John Estes variety, suggest the riches to be found far afield from (2.0 hours) the glare of publicity. For participants who pre-registered. Chapel Undercroft Hickory Room Life as a Bumbling Agnostic The Art of Bloodletting: Translating Suffering Michael Perry to the Shared Page What parts do uncertainty, humility, love, and stubbornness play in the process of rejecting the faith Leslie Leyland Fields, Jeanne Murray Walker, of your childhood while simultaneously honoring and Paul Willis the faith of those who raised you? This session offers When suffering strikes, we are often silenced by pain. a heartfelt and humorous discussion with a former In such times, the act of writing may feel frivolous, fundamentalist Christian who currently describes exploitative, or irrelevant. Yet it is these dark, raw himself as “not lookin’ for trouble … just lookin’.” places of our lives that demand our fullest attention, Seminary Chapel our most artful labors. How do we begin to write from within our afflictions? And how might the practice and the discipline of writing offer a means of shaping A Reading by Avi our suffering into meaning for both writer and reader? Gezon Auditorium Seminary Auditorium A Reading by Hugh Cook and James Schaap An Interesting Moral Education, or, Commons Lecture Hall How I Learned to Lie for a Living Matt Ruff Writing a Life: The Louis Till Project A writer of novels on such diverse subjects as John Edgar Wideman talking dogs in search of heaven, dueling multiple John Edgar Wideman explores the challenges of personalities, and covert battles between good and writing a novel based on the life of a real person—in evil, Matt Ruff describes how his worldview and his this case, Louis Till, who was hanged by the United fiction were shaped by two very different people: his States military at the end of World War II. The mother, a jungle missionary’s daughter, who showed session offers a meditation on faithfully writing him how to suspend disbelief; and his father, a a life story. hospital chaplain, who taught him to read minds. Willow Room AY Alumni Association Board Room D THURS “I think you have to write what you don’t know.” Stephen Dunn, Festival 2002 Schedule • 4/15 12 A Reading by Brady Udall 4:30–5:30 P.M. Commons Lecture Hall COncurrent SessiOns A Reading by L. S. Klatt Beyond Cure: Narratives of Healing Bytwerk Theatre Sara Miles Jesus tells his disciples to go forth and heal the What’s True? Personal Convictions, sick … but how? And what does healing really Professional Objectivity mean? In this session, Sara Miles explores the ways Jennifer Green in which relationship, truth-telling, and meaning How do reporters explain a multiplicity of religions open the ground for all kinds of healing—even in the to an audience that may range from Muslim, absence of cure. Christian, Buddhist, atheist, or simply skeptical Gezon Auditorium about any ultimate view of eternal truth? Jennifer Green discusses the challenges faced by journalists The Essay as a Way of Discovery who strive to keep their own faith alive while covering divisive public issues. Scott Russell Sanders Alumni Association Board Room One of the most intriguing aspects of the essay is the spectacle of a mind searching for a way through some difficult terrain. The terrain may be emotional, What “Some” Editors Want “Some” intellectual, or geographical; the difficulty may arise Writers to Know from uncertainty or complexity, from confusion Sheryl Fullerton, Robert Hosack, and David Long or pain, or from the mystery that surrounds and Who are these mysterious acquisitions editors who saturates all of existence.
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