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“The Consolation of the Imagination . . .” The Buechner Institute Turns Four We are living through a time when our failures in the realm of words, thoughtfulness, and ethics have roused us to re-attend to the venerable questions raised by faith and liberal learning. One of this year’s presenters, Katherine Paterson, says that “The consolation of the imagination is not imaginary consolation.” Among other things, Paterson’s comment suggests that the shriveling of the imagination ought to concern us deeply.

But some say that a new wind is beginning to blow. Perhaps we are seeing a renaissance, a revival of interest in the old verities of the human arts. HG4M0710

Perhaps we are learning again that, indeed, “Life consisteth not in

the abundance of things which a man possesseth.” (Luke 12:15). PAID Bristol, TN U.S. Postage U.S. Permit No. 16 No. Permit This year’s offerings from the Buechner Institute hope to make a t Org. Nonprofi contribution to this revitalization. Our visitors in 2010–2011 will attempt to broaden our horizons and challenge us to move beyond buechnerinstitute.org our caves of indifference and ignorance.

Fred Buechner puts it this way in Wishful Thinking: “We are much involved, all of us, with questions about things that matter a good deal today but will be forgotten by this time tomorrow—the immediate wheres and whens and hows that face us daily at home and at work—but at the same time we tend to lose track of the questions that matter always, life-and-death questions about meaning, purpose, and value. To lose track of such deep questions as these is to risk losing track of who we really are in our own Imagine depths and where we are really going.” Prophets and preachers. The gift of this Buechner Institute program to you is in the

opportunity to meet prophets and preachers, performers and Culture Performers and artists. artists, who can take us, via the imagination, into new possibility Scholars and commentators. and refreshing change.

I know you are busy, fraught with the demands of a constantly Experience jangling world. Please view these offerings as an occasion for the 2010-2011 reaching beyond the muddle. Do join us as often as you can. Buechner Institute Lectures. Engaging Bristol, TN 37620

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Buechner Lecture Series Clifton Lambreth | October 11 Katherine Paterson | January 28–29 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel Bridge to Terabithia theatrical production 7:00 p.m. | Student Center Boardroom January 28, 7:00 p.m.; January 29, 3:00 p.m. Paramount Center for the Arts 2010-2011 he Ford Motor Company has Temployed Clifton Lambreth for more January 29, 7:00 p.m. | Paramount Center for the Arts than 25 years. A top performer at Ford, istinguished children’s author Lambreth has received numerous awards. Katherine Paterson was born in Marilyn Chandler McEntyre | September 6 He has been a Ford college recruiter D China in 1932, the daughter of Christian Opening Convocation for Cornell University, University of missionaries. When the Japanese invaded Pennsylvania, Johnson Business School 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel Manchuria, Paterson settled with her family and Wharton Business School for more in rural , the setting of many of arilyn Chandler McEntyre will open than ten years. He serves on the Advisory her award-winning books. The current Mthe 2010-2011 lecture series with Boards of Lead Like Foundation and National Ambassador for Young People’s a talk on “Caring for Words in a Culture Western Carolina University’s School of Business. As CEO of Daniel Literature, Paterson has always advocated of Lies,” which is the title of her latest Bradley Matthews, Inc., he provides strategic automotive and marketing the need for contemporary, realistic book. A poet and a Professor of English consulting. Lambreth’s appearance in Bristol is being co-sponsored by children’s fi ction, refl ected in the diffi cult themes in many of her books, at Westmont College, McEntyre holds the Business Department of King College. a B.A. from Pomona College, an M.A. such as the death of a loved one (Bridge to Terabithia, Flip-Flop Girl), the from UC-Davis and a doctorate from tribulations of foster children (The Great Gilly Hopkins), governmental | October 18 . An author, teacher, Nikki Grimes persecution (Rebels Of The Heavenly Kingdom), and the exploitation of scholar, retreat leader, and a fellow of the 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel workers (Lyddie). Her popular 1977 Newbery award-winning novel, Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts, she has received several awards for 7:00 p.m. | Bristol Public Library Bridge to Terabithia—a story of friendship between two very different outstanding teaching. McEntyre’s scholarly interests include Hawthorne, children—has been made into a fi lm and a play, which will be performed ew York Times bestselling author Nikki Melville, Faulkner, and O’Connor, and she also lectures frequently on by the King College Theatre Program. A member of the Buechner Grimes has created many children’s issues of medicine and literature. N Institute’s Advisory Board and a graduate of King College, Paterson’s books that feature African American lecture is the 4th annual Buechner Lectureship. characters dealing with tough issues. She Shane Claiborne | September 13 also writes poetry and articles for teens and | February 28 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel adults and was the recipient of the 2006 Cathleen Falsani 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel hane Claiborne writes and travels NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry extensively, speaking about for Children. But her books have a global 7:00 p.m. | Bristol Train Station S perspective as well. After spending a year peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus. He athleen Falsani is the former in Africa, Grimes moved to Sweden, where is featured in the DVD series “Another columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times she lived for six years before returning to the U.S., and she has also C World Is Possible” and is the author of and author of The Factor, Sin Boldly, The traveled in China, Russia, Trinidad and Haiti. Her distinguished works several books including, The Irresistible Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen include What is Goodbye?, Jazmin’s Notebook, Dark Sons, The Road to Paris, and Revolution, Jesus for President, and Becoming Brothers, and The Thread: Finding a Sacred Place Meet Danitra Brown. Winner of the 2003 Coretta Scott King Award, her the Answer to Our Prayers. A graduate of in Cyberspace. Falsani is syndicated by the latest book is : Son of Promise, Child of Hope. Eastern University, Claiborne’s ministerial Religion News Service and is a contributing experience includes work alongside editor and columnist for Sojourners Magazine. Mother Teresa in Calcutta and service at Willow Creek Community Ryan Spencer Reed | November 8 Since 2004, Falsani has been the author of Church outside Chicago. He is a founding partner of The Simple Way, 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel a popular faith and culture blog entitled a faith community in inner city Philadelphia and is a frequent guest on 7:00 p.m. | Bristol Train Station “The Dude Abides.” The 2005 James O. Supple Religion Writer of the FOX News, CNN, and NPR. Year and a graduate of Wheaton College, and yan Spencer Reed’s journey Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, she was a 2009 Divinity Brian McLaren | September 15 R photographically documenting critical School Media Fellow at Duke University. social issues began in 2002 when he sold 7:00 p.m. | King College Memorial Chapel his car to fi nance his move to Nairobi, David & Ginger Hildebrand | March 21 rian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, Kenya, where he discovered the horrors of Band activist. Active in networking, the Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern 10:30 a.m., 7:00 p.m. | King College Memorial Chapel mentoring pastors and the development of Kenya—home to more than 90,000 he Hildebrands specialize in new churches, he is a popular speaker for refugees from confl icts across East Africa, Tresearching, recording, and performing campus groups, seminaries, and national many Sudanese from the Southern war. authentic colonial American music. Since and international leadership conferences This experience inspired him to document 1980, they have presented concerts on topics including the gospel and global the plight of refugees in Sudan and the mass exodus to eastern Chad. and educational programs throughout crises; and post-modernity; Since 2004, Reed has lectured throughout the U.S., creating a new the country, including the Smithsonian liturgy, preaching, and spiritual formation; awareness and a cultural backdrop for broader symposia which grapple Institution, the National Archives, and evangelism and inter-faith dialogue; with the issues facing the Sudanese people. Reed’s appearance in Bristol Colonial Williamsburg. The duo has issued and faith and social justice. In 2006, he left the pastorate to devote is being sponsored with funds provided by the King College 2009-2010 six recordings, including George Washington: full time to writing and speaking. McLaren’s fi rst book, The Church on Student Government Association. Music for the First President (1998) and Music the Other Side, serves as a primary portal into the current conversation in the Life of Benjamin Franklin (2006). Co-founders of The Colonial Music about postmodern ministry. Other books such as The Secret Message of Kenneth Huber | November 18 Institute, Ginger Hildebrand holds an M.M. in guitar performance from Jesus; Everything Must Change; Finding Our Way Again; and A New Kind of 10:30 a.m., 7:00 p.m. | King College Memorial Chapel the Peabody Conservatory and David Hildebrand an M.A. in musicology present contemporary approaches to the Christian life, from George Washington University and a Ph.D. from The Catholic message, and mission. ritically acclaimed concert pianist University of America. The Hildebrands performed at King College in CKenneth Huber teaches at Carleton 1993 and are returning under the auspices of the Department of Music. Mark Hall | September 27 College and resides in and Minneapolis. From 1968 to 1972, he | March 28 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel served as pianist with the U.S. Navy Band Mark Bauerlein 10:30 a.m. | King College Memorial Chapel ark Hall is Herbert Hoover in Washington, D.C., and performed at the MDistinguished Professor of Political White House and at the State Department. 7:00 p.m. | Bristol Public Library Science at George Fox University and He has given master classes and lectures ark Bauerlein is professor of English president of Christians in Political Science. at universities throughout the nation. His Mat Emory University and a former He has written extensively on the religious career often embraces chamber music Director of Research and Analysis at the and philosophical orientations of the and collaboration with opera singers of the Metropolitan and Vienna National Endowment for the Arts, where so-called Founding Fathers—the subject of State Opera companies. In addition to private teaching, he has taught he oversaw studies about culture and his talk at the Buechner Institute—in such at Virginia Intermont College, Westminster Choir College (Princeton, American life. Apart from his scholarly books as The Founders on God and Government, N.J.), and Augsburg College. Mr. Huber holds degrees from Indiana work, he publishes in popular periodicals America’s Forgotten Founders, The Forgotten University and has studied with Leon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebok, and such as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Founders on Religion and Public Life, and The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Frank Mannheimer. Huber is being sponsored by the King College Standard, , TLS, and Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding. Department of Music. Chronicle of Higher Education. His latest book, He recently completed The Old Puritan and a New Nation and is co-editing The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefi es Young Americans and Faith and the Founders of the American Republic. Hall is a graduate of Wheaton Nathan Rouse | December 3–4 Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under Thirty, was published College and the University of Virginia. The Birth theatrical production in 2008. His recent article, “Diminishing Returns in Humanities Research,” takes on some of the established practices in the Humanities 7:00 p.m. | Fine Arts Building Departments of many colleges and universities. At the Buechner graduate of Gardner-Webb University Institute, he will address “Online Literacy of a Lesser Kind.” Awith a B.A. in Theater Arts, Nathan Rouse has been performing on stages Barbara Bates Smith | April 18 throughout the Southeast for over a decade. From Shakespeare at The Springer The Happy Memories Club theatrical production “The Consolation Opera House, the state theater of Georgia, 7:00 p.m. | Fine Arts Building to C.S. Lewis at The Children’s Theater of arbara Bates Smith takes some of North of the Charlotte to the highways and byways of BCarolina’s fi nest literature and turns it North Carolina on tour with The North into content for her one-woman shows. Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Rouse Smith’s Off-Broadway performance of Ivy Imagination...” has performed the bard for all comers. He is a major force behind Rowe, from Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies, the Carolina Actor’s Studio. Since 2006 he has produced, directed, led to her extensive touring of Lee Smith’s We are grateful for the fi nancial gifts of donors and performed in The Birth, a kaleidoscopic original theatrical event works. She has experience with telling her celebrating Christmas, drawing audiences from all over the region. The own story too in “The C-Word: A Life- and friends and King College. Our thanks for theatrical production was inspired by Frederick Buechner’s works. meets-Art Cancer Story.” Bringing these experiences together, Smith will perform making all of this possible. a one-act play based on Lee Smith’s acclaimed short story “The Happy Memories Club” and will refl ect upon the critical business of paying attention to our own life stories. Copies of “The Happy Memories Club” will be available for download on buechnerinstitute.org by April 1. King College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities.

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