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COST Through the work of the Thorne Sparkman Steering Committee, and the generosity of past donors and attendees, this year’s online School will be offered free of charge. If you’d like to make a donation to offset the cost of the School, it would be very welcome. Visit www.stpaulschatt.org/give, Click to Give Online, THEN SELECT “Thorne Sparkman Fund” in the pulldown box.

HISTORY Established in 1973 through the leadership of the Rev. John Bonner, Jr., who was then rector of St. Paul’s Church, Chattanooga, the Thorne Sparkman School’s purpose is to offer other Episcopal parishes and the extended community “the best in Christian education in crucial areas including worship, ethics, liturgy, history, literature, music, and critical thinking.” WEDNESDAYS IN LENT | 2021 Named in honor of the Rev. Thorne Sparkman, who served as Rector of St. Paul’s from 1938 to 1949, the School has become an important Lenten offering to those in our area. Mr. Sparkman’s ministry to the parish and the FEBRUARY 24 | THE REV. DR. LAUREN WINNER extended community during the particularly momentous years of World War II was exemplified by his personal care, inspired teaching and preaching, and MARCH 3 | BISHOP KEVIN STRICKLAND outreach to the families of those in service. MARCH 10 | DR. PAUL HOLLOWAY SUPPORT FOR THE SCHOOL

The School of Religion is made possible by the leadership or financial support of... MARCH 17 | THE REV. PETER PEARSON St. Paul’s Episcopal Church St. Thaddeus Episcopal Church MARCH 24 | THE REV. JEN BAILEY Christ Church (Episcopal) St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church Southside Abbey St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Thankful Memorial Episcopal Church 6:45 P.M. – ONLINE LECTURE Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal) Ascension Lutheran Church FOLLOWED BY PRE-RECORDED ONLINE Q&A Grace Episcopal Church First-Centenary United Methodist Church St. Alban’s Episcopal Church Church of the Nativity (Episcopal) St. Martin of Tours’ Episcopal Church HOSTED ONLINE FROM ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH And by a generous gift to the Glory of God, in loving memory 305 WEST SEVENTH ST., DOWNTOWN CHATTANOOGA of Charlotte Haymore Clark and William F. Clark, WWW.THORNESPARKMAN.ORG by Deborah Seward Roberts Bonner and the Very Rev. John H. Bonner, III. THE REV. DR. LAUREN WINNER origins of anti-Semitism, the letters of the Apostle Paul, religious persecution and martyrdom, the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as readings in the Greek New Testament The Rev. Dr. Lauren Winner writes and lectures widely on Christian and other early Jewish and Christian texts. practice, the history of in America, and Jewish-Christian Dr. Holloway is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and relations. She is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at publishes widely on ancient Judaism and Christianity in such journals as Harvard Duke Divinity School. Former book editor for Beliefnet, she has Theological Review, Novum Testamentum, New Testament Studies (Cambridge), appeared on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has served Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Early Christianity (Tübingen), and Zeitschrift für die as a commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered. She has written neutestamentliche Wissenschaft. He has recently published Philippians: A Critical for Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers and Historical Commentary for the Hermeneia series. He is currently preparing Weekly, and . Her books include Girl Meets God; Mudhouse Sabbath; a commentary on 1 Corinthians for the International Critical Commentary (ICC; A Cheerful and Comfortable Faith; Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis; and Wearing God, a Edinburgh). book on overlooked biblical tropes for God. Dr. Winner earned the B.A. from , M.Phil. from Clare College, THE REV. PETER PEARSON Cambridge, M.Div. from Duke Divinity School, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research has been supported by numerous institutions, including Monticello, The Rev. Peter Pearson, M. Div., Th. D. has studied under the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Center for the Study of Religion nearly a dozen master iconographers and has been painting at , and the Institute of Sacred Music at . She was icons for over fifty years. He has been teaching iconography ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia in December 2011, and serves for more than half that time and has authored three books as vicar of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Louisburg, NC. on the subject. Icons by his hand grace the walls of churches, monasteries, and retreat houses around the world. Peter is BISHOP KEVIN STRICKLAND an organized and accessible teacher and guide in the history, technique, and Prior to being elected Bishop of the Southeastern Synod on June theology/spirituality behind these ancient images of faith. He is a published 2, 2019, the Rev. Kevin L. Strickland served as the Assistant to author, having produced three books on the subject of a contemporary approach the Presiding Bishop, Executive for Worship of the ELCA. He had to traditional Byzantine iconography, and a sought after speaker, instructor, and served in the churchwide office since August of 2014. mentor. Born and raised in Lexington, SC, Bishop Strickland is an honors graduate of Newberry College (Newberry, SC) with a Bachelor of THE REV. JENNIFER BAILEY Arts in Religion and Philosophy and a minor in History. He also obtained a Masters of Named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for Divinity from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, SC). In December of American Progress, Rev. Jen Bailey (she/her) is an ordained 2019, Newberry College awarded him a doctorate of divinity. minister, public theologian, and national leader in the multi-faith Bishop Strickland served as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran, Nashville, TN and St. Paul movement for justice. She is the Founder and Executive Director Lutheran, Maryville, TN prior and has served at Incarnation Lutheran (Columbia, SC), of the Faith Matters Network, a Womanist-led organization St. Philip’s Lutheran (Newberry, SC), Lutheran Church of Redeemer (Newberry, SC), equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists and Mt. Tabor Lutheran (West Columbia, SC) in the area of youth and family ministry. with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and Bishop Strickland has served on various local and national non-profit boards and has accompaniment. Jen comes to this work with nearly a decade of experience at a heart for justice and advocacy ministry. He has also been published in a number of nonprofits combating intergenerational poverty. Rev. Bailey is an ordained itinerant worship and preaching journals and books. elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and serves locally on the staff of DR. PAUL HOLLOWAY Greater Bethel A.ME. Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Paul Holloway is University Professor of Classics and Ancient An Ashoka Fellow, Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, Aspen Ideas Scholar, On . Christianity. He teaches courses in both the School of Being Fellow and Truman Scholar, Jennifer earned degrees from Tufts University Theology and the College of Arts and Sciences. He has taught and Vanderbilt University Divinity School where she was awarded the Wilbur F. at Sewanee since 2009. Prior to coming to Sewanee, he was Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. She has written for a Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins in the number of publications including On Being, Sojourners, Salon, Huffington Post, Department of Theology and Religious Studies in the University The Christian Century, and the Lily- a publication of The Washington Post. Rev. of Glasgow, Scotland. A cultural historian trained in the study of Bailey serves on the boards of World Faith, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, and the ancient religion, he is especially interested in Jewish and Christian beginnings. His Healing Trust. She enjoys good food, dancing like no one is watching, and road trip courses include such topics as Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman world, the adventures.