| 5:00 to 6:45 pm |
Registration and reception | |
| 7:00 pm | Welcome and worship | |
| 7:30 pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS | |
| “Who Are the Brethren? An Outside View” | Richard T. Hughes | |
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
| 7:15 to 8:00 am |
Breakfast | |
| 8:15 to 9:30 am |
SESSION I | |
| A. THEOLOGY | ||
| “New Birth into a Living Hope: The Brethren Understanding of Regeneration” | Brenda B. Colijn | |
| “Speaking of Church: A Comparative Overview of CoB Ecclesiology” | Leslie Ann Billhimer Frye | |
| B. HISTORY | ||
| Panel: “The COB During the Interwar Period (1919-1939): Pandemic, Gender, and Fundamentalism” | Steve Longenecker, Frank Ramirez, Carol Longenecker | |
| C. MISSIONS | ||
| “From A Peculiar People to an Intercultural Church: Successes and Missed Opportunities” | Duane Grady | |
| “Church of the Brethren Missions in Africa and Mud Hut Ontology” | Graydon Snyder | |
| D. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES | ||
| “Living Our Twenty-First Century Faith: Being Brethren in a Pluralistic Society” | L. David Witovsky | |
| 9:30 to 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:00 to 11:00 am | PLENARY SESSION | |
| “Anabaptist and Pietist Influences on the Early Brethren: Approach to Brethren Beginnings” | Marcus Meier | |
| 11:00 am to 12:15 pm | SESSION II | |
| A. THEOLOGY | ||
| “How Brethren Have Dealt with Differences” | Dale W. Brown | |
| “Is There a Future for Brethren Apocalypticism?” | David M. Valeta | |
| B. HISTORY | ||
| “The Ephrata Cloister--Its Significance and Message for Current Brethren Bodies” | Jobie E. Riley | |
| “Catharine Hummer: History, Historiography, Hagiography” | Frank Ramirez | |
| “Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss: The Evolution of the Holy Kiss in the CoB” | Denise D. Kettering | |
| C. PEACE | ||
| Panel: “Honoring our Peace Witness Through Activism and Scholarship” | Timothy McElwee, Kenneth Brown, Yvonne Dilling, Cliff Kindy, Deborah Roberts | |
| D. MINISTRY AND SERVICE | ||
| “Preparing for the Ministry: An Historical Look at Ministerial Training in the Brethren and Mormon Churches” | David Kenley | |
| “Spirituality & Service: A Survey of Students at a COB Related College” | Tracy Saad | |
| 12:30 to 1:45 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00 to 3:00 pm |
PLENARY SESSION | |
| “Balancing Word and Spirit in Anabaptist, Pietist, and Brethren Hermeneutics” | Dale Stoffer | |
| 3:00 to 3:30 pm |
Break | |
| 3:30 to 4:45 pm |
SESSION III | |
| A. HYMNODY | ||
| “A Legacy of Anabaptist and Pietist Hymnody in the Church of the Brethren” | Hedwig T. Durnbaugh | |
| “Move In Our Midst--A Song for a New Generation?” | Karen A. Garrett | |
| B. FUTURE OF THE CHURCH | ||
| “Entering Whitman’s America: Toward a Cosmopolitan Piety beyond Old Order Envy & Mainline Accommodation” | Scott Holland | |
| “Back to the Future: Heritage as a Springboard for our Emerging Life and Witness” | David Radcliff | |
| C. HISTORY | ||
| “The Brethren in Missouri: 1795 to 1865” | V. Jane Davis | |
| “The Cultural Landscape of Religious Division: The Brethren of Cerro Gordo” | Daniel Krall | |
| “150 Years of Brethren Presence in California” | Marlin L. Heckman | |
| D. PEACE | ||
| “The Brethren Witness and the Search for a Culture of Peace in Africa” | Donald E. Miller | |
| “Pennsylvania's Civil War Conscientious Objectors: A Brethren Perspective” | Jonathan R. Stayer | |
| 5:00 to 6:30 pm |
Dinner | |
| 7:00 pm | PLENARY SESSION | |
| “The New Testament Is Our Creed: Brethren and the Canon” | Chris Bucher | |
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
| 7:15 to 8:00 am |
Breakfast | |
| 8:15 to 9:15 am |
PLENARY SESSION | |
| “A Profile of the Church of the Brethren Today” | Carl Desportes Bowman | |
| 9:15 to 10:00 am | PLENARY SESSION | |
| Panel of Young Adults: "What Story Will a Peace Church Tell?" | Scott Holland | |
| 10:00 to 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:30 to 11:30 am | PLENARY SESSION | |
| “Brethren Heritage and Modern Culture: Vision and Challenge” | Stewart Hoover | |
| 11:30 to noon | Worship and Wrap-up | |
