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Walter Fluker | August 24 Novelist, Essayist, and Screenwriter: ver a lifetime of spiritual refl ection and storytelling, Opening Convocation | 10:30 a.m. | January 23, 2010 O Frederick Buechner has become a touchstone for those seeking to begin, wrestle with, or deepen a personal journey Mako Fujimura | September 21 Offi cially inaugurated by Frederick Buechner of faith. himself in January of 2008, the Buechner Institute Refractions: Art and Faith Buechner’s work has received national acclaim. He has been 10:30 a.m. | 7:00 p.m. now celebrates its birthday with an annual lectureship. Walter Brueggemann, Thomas Lynch a fi nalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Steven D. Martin | November 2 and others joined Fred for the launch in 2008. In as well as the recipient of honors from the American Academy 2009, an all day program featured Barbara Brown of Arts and Letters. An ordained Presbyterian , he has Film, Faith, and Understanding Taylor who spoke of her gratitude to Fred for his 10:30 a.m. | 7:00 p.m. delivered the Nobel Lectures at Harvard call to attentiveness, his desire to “say something and the Beecher Lectures at Yale. Tim Clydesdale | November 9 true that matters.” On January 23 we will welcome Ron Hansen for Buechner is unfailingly honest about Seven Things College Students Wished the 2010 Buechner Institute Annual Lectureship. the human condition, and yet un- Every Professor Knew | 10:30 a.m. Hansen, who thinks of his writing as “a form of apologetically positive. His frankness in Understanding 20-Somethings in America: prayer,” has written award-winning novels that dealing with doubt, sorrow, and sin as The Lengthening Runway Between Adolescence consider such possibilities as unconditional love, and Adulthood | 7:00 p.m. redemption, and resurrection. Mariette in Ecstasy well as his commitment to joy, humor, (1991) was the winner of the Gold Medal for artistry, and hope has gathered a grateful Excellence in Fiction. Atticus (1996), a fi nalist for Ron Hansen | January 23, 2010 audience. His writing serves as a mas- the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner The Buechner Annual Lectureship | 7:00 p.m. Award, was made into a fi lm, Missing Pieces, starring terful guide to the ways that personal Jennifer Holberg | February 1 . Hansen’s The Assassination of Jesse belief, public life, and creative expression interact. James By the Coward (1983) became a In the 2007–2008 academic year, the Buechner Institute at The Abundant Life | 10:30 a.m. recently popular fi lm starring . King College was created to examine the intersections—and Nebraskan by birth and a longtime California Maggie Jackson | February 8 resident, Hansen has produced a volume of short collisions—between faith, art, and culture. With Buechner’s The Gift of Attention: Cultivating Focus in a stories, Nebraska (1989), a novel for children, works as a guide and King as receptive host, the Institute is Distracted Land | 10:30 a.m. The Shadowmaker (1986), several screenplays working to create a center that welcomes authors, artists, including a 1996 adaptation of Mariette in Ecstasy, The Body at the Threshold: The Fate of the Earthly in a musicians, scholars, and others to interact with a national and a signifi cant volume of essays, A Stay Against Virtual World | 7:00 p.m. Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction (2001). His audience. The Institute also seeks to provide a locus for all Alfred “Freddie” Traum | February 22 most recent novel, Exiles (2008), is the intertwined those working to elevate discussion, a place to share explora- tale of the life of poet , tions with like-minded seekers. Surviving the Holocaust | 10:30 a.m. Hopkins’ famous poem “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” and the lives and deaths of the nuns You may follow the work via buechnerinstitute.org William P. Young | March 1 who are the subject of that poem. and on the Buechner Institute fan page on Facebook. The Shack: Is Really This Good? Your gifts to the Institute will support programming 10:30 a.m. | 7:00 p.m. Visit buechnerinstitute.org or the Buechner Institute Facebook fan site for complete that is contributing to rich regional opportunities and

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Steven D. Martin | November 2 Jennifer Holberg | February 1 Film, Faith, and Understanding The Abundant Life 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel The More 7:00 p.m. | King College Memorial Chapel ennifer L. Holberg teaches English at Calvin College, where she also serves teven D. Martin is a documentary fi lmmaker and a J as Associate Director of the Honors partner in Vital Visuals, Inc. The company produces Things Change... S program. She is the founding co-editor of quality documentaries exploring , ethics, public the journal, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to life, and the intricate interplay between them for broadcast Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and and public television. Islam in America After September 11 and Culture, published by Duke University Press. Muslims in Appalachia became part of the national discussion Shouts and Whispers, her edited collection of terrorism after September 11 and the latter aired on PBS of speeches and interviews from 21 Buechner network. Other fi lms include contemporary authors on the topic of faith Theologians Under Hitler, and literature, was published in 2006. Holberg chairs the Elizabeth of Berlin, and Hearts national advisory board for the Buechner Institute. Lecture Series Divided. One of Martin’s next fi lms will examine the 1956 integration of the high school in Clinton, Tennessee, in Maggie Jackson | February 8 2009–2010 which religious leadership The Gift of Attention: Cultivating Focus in a played a key role. Distracted Land 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel

Walter Fluker | August 24 The Body at the Threshold: The Fate of the Earthly Tim Clydesdale | November 9 in a Virtual World Opening Convocation Seven Things College Students Wished 7:00 p.m. | King College Boardroom 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel Every Professor Knew aggie Jackson graduated from Yale alter Earl Fluker is executive 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel and the London School of Economics director of the Leadership M W with highest honors. She is an award- Center at Atlanta’s Morehouse College Understanding 20-Somethings in America: winning author and journalist known for her and a professor of Philosophy and The Lengthening Runway Between Adolescence Religion. As Coca-Cola Professor penetrating coverage of U.S. social issues and Adulthood of Leadership Studies, he is interim in her column, Balancing Acts, for the Sunday director of the Morehouse College 7:00 p.m. | King College Boardroom Boston Globe. Her work also appears in The Martin Luther King Jr. Collection. New York Times, Gastronomica, and on National Since 1992, he has been editor of the im Clydesdale is Professor of Sociology Public Radio. Her latest book, Distracted: Howard Thurman Papers Project. Tat The College of New Jersey. He The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Dr. Fluker is also engaged in expanding helped shape the national debate on Age, details the steep costs of epidemic defi cits of attention, a multi-faceted international leadership project in affi rmative action well before the Grutter while revealing the astonishing scientifi c discoveries that South Africa in partnership with the Oprah Winfrey v. Bollinger case at the University of can help us rekindle our powers of focus in a world of speed Foundation, the Department of State, and Michigan Law School ignited the world and overload. Jackson has won numerous awards for her the African Presidential Archives and Research Center of academia with the sparks of a Supreme at Boston University. Known as an expert in the theory coverage of work-life issues, including the Media Award Court ruling on affi rmative action practices and practice of ethical leadership, he is a featured from the Work-Life Council of the Conference Board. in higher education. Awarded a $512,000 speaker, lecturer, and workshop leader at foundations, grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., for businesses, corporations, religious institutions, colleges Alfred “Freddie” Traum | February 22 and universities as well as consultant to both national a project Clydesdale named The Life and Vocation of American and international organizations. In his consulting Youth Project: A National Evaluation of PTEV’s Impact on Students Surviving the Holocaust practice, he works with professionals and emerging and their Mentors, he will spend nearly four years studying 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel leaders in both the public and private domains. the vocational thinking and processes of religious and nonreligious American college students. A prolifi c author, lfred “Freddie” Traum is a Holocaust Clydesdale’s work includes, The First Year Out: Understanding A survivor. He was born into a Mako Fujimura | September 21 American Teens after High School; Abandoned, Pursued, or Safely traditional Jewish family on March 22, Stowed: The Religious Life of First Year Undergraduates; and 1929, in Vienna, Austria. Fearing the worst Refractions: Art and Faith Affi rmative Action in American Law Schools: A Critical Response to after Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Richard Sander’s A Reply to Critics. Traum’s family sent him and his sister, 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel Ruth, to England where they lived with a 7:00 p.m. | King College Boardroom Christian family for a number of years. As rtist and writer Makoto Fujimura Ron Hansen | January 23, 2010 news about the Holocaust surfaced in 1943, Traum and his sister discovered that their A graduated from Bucknell Annual Buechner Lecture University in 1983. As a National entire family had been murdered. After the war, Traum | First Presbyterian Church, west end of Nihonga (Japanese painting) Scholar 7:00 p.m. served both the British and Israeli armies. In 1963, he and he earned an M.F.A. from Tokyo the King College campus his wife, Josiane, another Holocaust survivor, moved to the United States, where he worked for Boeing until his National University of Fine Arts and on Hansen is a deacon of the Catholic recent retirement. Together with his wife and her mother, Music in 1989. His book, River Grace, Church, a member of the Buechner R Fanny Aizenberg, Traum volunteers at the United States traces his parallel journey mastering Institute National Advisory Board, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nihonga technique with his own art Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor and faith issues, described as “a transfer of Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara of allegiance from Art to Christ.” Fujimura founded the University, where he teaches writing William P. Young | March 1 International Arts Movement, an arts advocacy organization and literature. Hansen’s popular work, The Shack: Is God Really This Good? that “wrestles with the deep questions of art, faith, and The Assassination of by the Coward humanity.” His essays have appeared in Image Journal, Books Robert Ford, chronicled the life and death 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel and Culture, American Arts Quarterly, and WORLD magazine. of the iconic outlaw and was adapted 7:00 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church, west end of Public collections of his work include The Saint Louis for the screen in 2006. Mariette in Ecstasy (1991), about a the King College campus Museum, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, and cloistered Catholic nun who apparently bears the stigmata, illiam Young is the author of The Hong Kong’s Time Warner / AOL / CNN building. He earned him universal critical praise. The amazing range of Shack. Rejected by 26 publishers, is represented by Dillon Gallery in New York and Tokyo Hansen’s work includes collections of essays, a novel on the W Young and some friends self-published the (www.dillongallery.com). His newest book is Refractions. personal life of , Hitler’s Niece (1999), a novel for book in 2007. The Shack became number one children, and several screenplays. From the early westerns on trade paperback fi ction to his humorous novel Isn’t it Romantic (2003), Hansen has best-seller list in June 2008 and was the demonstrated enormous variety and artistry. His latest top-selling fi ction and audio book of 2008 in novel, Exiles (2008), tells the story of a shipwreck that Thanks to the fi nancial gifts of donors America through November 30 of that year. prompted poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., to write some Until he published The Shack, Young drifted of his best work. and friends, all campus events in the Buechner through life as an adult, buoyed a little by his faith and a lot by his wife, Kim, keeping his secrets Lecture Series are free and open to the public. and building his shack—“the place we make to hide all our crap,” he calls it. At the age of 38, he found himself at We are very grateful for their support. his nadir. “I had a three-month affair with one of my wife’s best friends. That was it, which just blew my careful little King College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national religious world apart. I either had to get on my knees and origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities. deal with my wife’s pain and anger, or kill myself.”

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