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Things The More More The Buechner Lecture Series The BUECHNER INSTITUTE 2009–2010 Annual Lectureship Frederick Buechner and the Buechner Institute Walter Fluker | August 24 Novelist, Essayist, and Screenwriter: ver a lifetime of spiritual refl ection and storytelling, Opening Convocation | 10:30 a.m. Ron Hansen | 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 minister, 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 James Coburn. Hansen’s The Assassination of Jesse belief, public life, and creative expression interact. James By the Coward Robert Ford (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 Brad Pitt. 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 Gerard Manley Hopkins, 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 God 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 information about the day’s activities. to the national conversation on faith and culture. ^ ^ Open for speaker bios and event information Dale Brown, Director, the Buechner Institute | buechnerinstitute.org | 1350 King College Road Bristol, Tennessee 37620 | 423.652.4156 The BUECHNER INSTITUTE at King College 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 religion, 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.