Community Events

Currently on display through June 9, 2009

Erdman Art Gallery Show: “One World—One Family”
Weekdays: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m., Sunday, 1:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public

“One World—One Family” features photographs by local artist Kathy Nelson. It is a series of photographs representing “our connectedness as a global family, where we have the responsibility to our neighbor, and responsibility for God’s creation,” says Nelson. “The exhibit will focus on our neighbors in the Middle East and Africa, as well as creatures and elements of God’s creation entrusted to our care.”

Nelson is a Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor. She has served congregations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for more than twenty-five years, and currently serves as president of F.I.S.H. (Funding Individual Spiritual Health) Foundation Inc., which provides grants in health, education, and spirituality, both in the United States and abroad. Nelson enjoys writing and photography as a way of bringing together her interest in spirituality and her passion for sharing the quest for the divine with others.

She is the author of Listen With Your Heart (Tien Wah Press, 2007), The Journey: Photos and Meditations for the Hungry Soul (Blurb Creative Books, 2009), Mt. Saint Catherine’s Monastery: A Journey Into the Unknown (Blurb Creative Books, 2009), and Just Outside My Window (Blurb Creative Books, 2009).

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June 27, 2009

The Hispanic Theological Initiative 2009 Book Award and Lecture: “La Virgen de East Los (Angeles): Texts, Textual Representations, and the Arts of Resistance”
7:30 p.m., Cooper Conference Room, Erdman Center of Continuing Education, 20 Library Place
Free and open to the public

Dr. David A. Sánchez, assistant professor of New Testament studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, will receive the Hispanic Theological Initiative’s (HTI) annual book prize for 2009. The prize, awarded for his book From Patmos to the Barrio: Subverting Imperial Myths (Fortress Press), will be presented at HTI’s thirteenth annual summer workshop.

Sánchez will give a public lecture on the topic of “La Virgen de East Los (Angeles): Texts, Textual Representations, and the Arts of Resistance.” Respondent to the lecture will be Dr. Fernando Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University.

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