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How do you minister to people dealing with infertility or miscarriage?
How do you minister to a family dealing with violence?
How do you handle scripture where women play difficult roles?

No matter where you are these are issues that you will face at some point in your ministry.
Come and gain fresh insights into dealing with women’s pain. Dr. Jennifer Wright Knust will present “Healing the Hemorrhage: Jesus and the Hazardous Cure” on Wednesday night. Thursday morning, Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker will present “When the Cradle is Empty,” which will look at historic and contemporary ritual practices that address the subject of infertility. Thursday afternoon, Dr. Shelly Rambo will present “Love Remains: Women’s Trauma Narratives and the Love of God.” Augustine’s autobiographical account of his search for knowledge and love of God in Confessions has come to represent the struggle between head and heart in Christian faith. Given the complexities of ‘knowing’ in contemporary studies of trauma, Rambo will revisit this classic Christian tension, challenging and reformulating it through women’s narratives of trauma. Trauma introduces a third category — witness — that emerges amidst the difficulties of memory and speech marking much of traumatic experience. Exploring this third term through re-reading a key biblical text, Rambo will shed new light on what it means to love God, pointing to a new understanding of the Holy Spirit in the wake of radical suffering.

Registration due by March 2, 2006
Please print out and mail completed form to: The Anna Howard Shaw Center, Boston University School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. For more information, please e-mail the center at shawctr@bu.edu or call (617) 353-3075. 

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Rooms are wheelchair accessible.  If you will need additional assistance, please contact the Anna Howard Shaw Center by March 2.
 

DIRECTIONS
Boston University School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, is accessible via I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike), Allston-Cambridge exit, to Storrow Drive, to Kenmore Square. By public transportation, use the MBTA Green line, B train, B.U. Central stop. All sites are centrally located to the School of Theology. The George Sherman Union is to the left of the school; Marsh Chapel is to the right; the Law School is located behind the school.

 

	March 15, 2006
	Boston University George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Avenue Faculty Dining Room (Fifth Floor)
5:30 p.m..	Dinner
6:30 p.m.	Meet the Speakers
7:00 p.m.	Dr. Jennifer Wright Knust
	March 16, 2006
	Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue Twelfth Floor Lounge
9:00 a.m.	Morning Worship at Marsh Chapel
10:00 a.m.	Gathering activities at the Law School
10:30 a.m.	Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker
1:00 p.m.	Lunch
2:00 p.m.	Dr. Shelly Rambo
4:00 p.m.	Sending Forth

Dr. Jennifer Wright Knust is an assistant professor of New Testament and Christian origins at the Boston University School of Theology. She joined the BUSTH faculty this past fall after five years of teaching at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. She earned her Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and her doctorate from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. The author of numerous articles and a recently published book, Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity, she teaches and conducts research in the areas of the history of interpretation, ancient rhetoric and early Christian discourse, and the intersection of sex, gender, and status in ancient Christian argumentation. She was ordained as an American Baptist (USA) pastor by the First Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon, Maine, and is an active
leader at her local church.

Dr. Shelly Rambo, in her second year at BU School of Theology, teaches in the area of Theology, Philosophy, and Ethics. She teaches the introductory theology course as well as courses in feminist and womanist theologies, theological aesthetics, and pneumatology. She received Master’s degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and Yale University and completed her Ph.D. in Theology from Emory University. Her research interests focus on rethinking the Christian narrative of cross and resurrection in light of studies in trauma.

Dr. Karen Westerfield Tucker, Professor of Worship at the Boston University School of Theology, is a United Methodist elder (presbyter) affiliated with the Illinois Great Rivers Conference. She served as a pastor and campus minister before pursuing a doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Notre Dame; and before coming to BU, she taught at Duke University for fifteen years. Her academic and research interests include North American liturgical history and theology, Methodist/Wesleyan liturgical history and theology, liturgy and pastoral care, and hymnody. She is the author of American Methodist Worship, editor of The Sunday Service of the Methodists: Twentieth-century Worship in Worldwide Methodism, and co-editor of the recent Oxford History of Christian Worship. She is the editor-in-chief of the international and ecumenical Studia Liturgica.

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