Princeton Theological Seminary

April 7, 2018 | Miller Chapel “Let All Things Now Living” This concert welcomes the coming of spring with a selection of pieces from cultures from around the world, celebrating the wonders of creation and praising the God who made it and called it good. The Princeton Ringers spring concert features Princeton Seminary students, spouses, staff, and friends from churches across the community. It is under the direction of James Klotz.

April 14, 2018 | Miller Chapel This spring concert features the Princeton Seminary Chapel Choir under the leadership of Martin Tel and Michael Gittens. Choral pieces include three new arrangements commissioned by Princeton Seminary within the last year: Alice Parker’s “Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown,” Ben Brody’s “I Believe,” and Michael Gittens’ “Breathe on Me, Breath of God.”

April 19, 2018 | Miller Chapel "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power." We are tempted to think of weakness as a spiritual virtue, and strength and power as things to be feared. But there is nothing inherently spiritual about weakness, nor inherently wrong with being strong. The call is to be strong in the Lord. It always gets back to grace.

March 29, 2018 | Miller Chapel "For once you were in darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light . . ." The light doesn’t come from us, but from Christ. And the mission of being a child of light is to shine in the darkness. Christ’s community does not exist for itself, but for his mission.

March 21, 2018 | Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Lecture VI: “'Making the Good Confession Before Pontius Pilate' – Framed by Politics?” Lecturer: Dr. Dirk J. Smit

March 22, 2018 | Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Lecture V: “'When You Come Together'? – Discerning the Body” Lecturer: Dr. Dirk J. Smit

March 20, 2018 | Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Lecture IV: “'Because They Saw that the Child was Beautiful'? – Recognizing Glory” Lecturer: Dr. Dirk J. Smit

March 20, 2018 | Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Lecture III: “'With Sighs Too Deep For Words'? – Imagining a Different World” Lecturer: Dr. Dirk J. Smit

March 20, 2018 | Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Lecture II: “'By the Mercies of God'? – Considering Justification” Lecturer: Dr. Dirk J. Smit

March 19, 2018 | Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures Lecture I: “'Hope for Even the Most Wretched'? – Rethinking Election” Lecturer: Dr. Dirk J. Smit

March 16, 2018 Keynote Address: “The Many Faces of Violence and How Women Confront and Resist Violence in Congo-Kinshasa" Lecturer: Mme Monique Misenga Mukuna

March 16, 2018 Keynote Address: "Becoming One of Them: Women Experiencing Violence in Congo-Brazzaville" Lecturer: Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener

March 22, 2018 | Miller Chapel "But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ." If we cannot speak the truth in love it is not the truth of Christ. And if we cannot love in truth, it is not love. A community of Christ holds truth and love together.

March 15, 2018 | Miller Chapel "I pray that you may have the power to . . . know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge . . ." What does it mean to know a love that surpasses knowledge? The point of theology is greater than knowledge about God. The point is to know God. But that can only happen in community.

March 1, 2018 | Miller Chapel ". . . you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God." When we remember that we are adopted Gentiles in the household of God, we get less interested in thinking about us vs. them. By the grace of God there is no them. Only us – who have been “brought near by the blood of Christ.”

February 22, 2018 | Princeton Theological Seminary Library "Art as Resistance" Lecturer: Dr. Daniel White Hodge, associate professor of intercultural communication at North Park University

February 15, 2018 | Miller Chapel "#STAYWOKE" The 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary Lecturer: The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, senior pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois

February 15, 2018 | Miller Chapel "But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ —by grace you have been saved." The Gospel always turns on the holy word “but.” We were dead, but God made us alive. None of us can self-construct a life. But grace brings us back to life in Christ’s community.

Keynote lecture at the 2017 Princeton Theological Seminary ​Annual Graduate Student Conference on “Christianity and the Body” Lecturer: Dr. Eugene Rogers, Professor, ​University of North Carolina at Greensboro

February 8, 2018 | Miller Chapel “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.” Paul uses the phrase "in Christ" nine times in 14 verses. What does this mean, and why is it so important for the church to understand? To be in Christ, is to participate in his community.

February 1-2, 2018 | Disability and Youth Ministry Conference Speaker: Rev. Dr. Erin Raffety, Lecturer in Youth, Church, and Culture in the Department of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary

February 1-2, 2018 | Disability and Youth Ministry Conference Speaker: Dr. John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

February 1-2, 2018 | Disability and Youth Ministry Conference Speaker: Dr. John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Keynote Address: "An Agenda for the 21st Century" Speaker: Jacob K. Olupona, professor of African and African American studies, Harvard University, and professor of African religion, Harvard Divinity School

Opening Communion for the 2018 Spring Semester Preacher: Keri L. Day, associate professor of constructive theology and African American religion Sermon: “Give Me a Song of Hope”

Keynote Address: "World Christianity: A Genealogy" Speaker: Dale T. Irvin, president, New York Theological Seminary

November 1, 2017 “Reforming Ethiopia: From Kebra Nagast to Protestant England” Lecturer: Dr. Dennis Britton, associate professor of English, Cambridge Program director, University of New Hampshire

November 1, 2017 “Perceptions of Martin Luther in Africa: Aspects of a Complex Heritage” Lecturer: Dr. Frieder Ludwig, Fachhochschule für Interkulturelle Theologie Hermannsburg

November 1, 2017 “Ethiopian Christianity in the World of Martin Luther and 16th Century Protestantism” Lecturer: Dr. David D. Daniels III, Henry Winters Luce Professor of World Christianity, McCormick Theological Seminary

October 31, 2017 “From Pinkster to Pentecostal” Speaker: Dr. Jeroen DeWulf, associate professor in the Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

October 31, 2017 “Caribbean Reformations: Black Christians, Protestant Missionaries, and the Limits of Freedom in the Atlantic World” Speaker: Dr. Katharine Gerbner, assistant professor of history, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

October 31, 2017 African Christians and the Reformation Workshop Speaker: Dr. Afeosemime "Afe” Adogame, Maxell M. Upson Professor of Christianity and Society, Princeton Theological Seminary

November 9, 2017 The Bible and Ethics in Christian Life: Race, Class, Gender, and Ecological Justice Panelists: • Dr. Eric Barreto, Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament, Princeton Seminary • Dr. Bruce Birch, dean and professor of biblical theology, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC • Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, professor of theological and social ethics, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and the Graduate Theological Seminary (affiliated with Columbia University) • Dr. Peter Paris, Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Ethics Emeritus, Princeton Seminary • Dr. Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr ProfessorEmeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary (New York City) Moderator: Dr. Jacqueline Lapsley, associate professor of Old Testament and director of The Center for Theology, Women, and Gender, Princeton Seminary

November 15, 2017 | Princeton Theological Seminary Library “The Case of the Trafficked Princesses: Trauma Hermeneutics as Pedagogical Tool for Teaching on Gender-Based Violence” Lecturer: Dr. Julianna Claassens, professor of Old Testament, chair of the Department of Old and New Testament, and head of the gender unit, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

December 13, 2017 | Miller Chapel The Carols of Many Nations service includes readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols led by the Princeton Seminary Choir and international students and staff of the Seminary.

December 16, 2017 | Miller Chapel “Ring and Sing Glory to the Newborn King!” Under the direction of James Klotz, the Princeton Ringers are comprised of Seminary students, spouses, staff, and friends from churches across the community.

Fall 2016 Opening Communion Sermon “Dreams and Realities of Community”

December 7, 2017 | Miller Chapel “Inheriting the Mantle” No matter how creative your means may be, no one really invents ministry any more than we could invent the gospel. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all stand on the shoulders of others. In ministry we’re just participating in the next chapter of the Reformation of the church.

November 30, 2017 | Miller Chapel

November 9, 2017 | Miller Chapel “Giving Up the Limp” In the times when the famine has been most severe you have to choose if you are going to worship God or Baal. Most of us claim to worship God, but we have a Plan B just in case. Plan B is always Plan Baal.

November 2, 2017 | Miller Chapel Listening to God is as much skill as it is gift. And the skill comes from learning to tune your ears. Elijah had to listen to God with the poor widow before he could listen to God in the high drama on Mt. Carmel.

Speaker: Sister Miriam Therese Winter, faculty associate in transformative leadership and spirituality, director, master of arts in transformative leadership and spirituality, and director of the Women’s Leadership Institute, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut

“Thinking with our Hearts/Feeling with our Brains: Testimonies of Faith that History Might Otherwise Forget” Speaker: Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics, Union Presbyterian Seminary

“Faith of Our Mothers” Preacher: The Reverend Julie M. Hoplamazian, rector, The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, Brooklyn, NY

October 12, 2017 | Miller Chapel "The Wings of Refuge” It is impossible to survive in any environment, including a Christian one, without a sanctuary. It is only a matter of time before “the destroying storms” pass your way. But what does it substantively mean to find shelter under God’s wings?

October 5, 2017 | Miller Chapel “Beholding God’s Beauty” David seeks communion with God in order to seek truth and to behold God’s beauty. Most Protestants are better at seeking than we are at beholding. But the purpose of seeking truth is precisely to behold the beauty of God.

September 21, 2017 | Miller Chapel “Being Rooted” The purpose of theological study, worship, and participation in community is to develop deep roots like a tree planted by streams of water. But the purpose of being rooted is to bear fruit.

September 8, 2017 | Miller Chapel "Weeds in the Garden"

Opening Convocation for the 2017–18 Academic Year Speaker: Jacqueline Lapsley, Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Old Testament

Opening Communion for the 2017–18 Academic Year Preacher: President Craig Barnes