VJN partners with Annual Vineyard Scholars Conference in April!
2020 Society of Vineyard Scholars Conference, with VJN!
April 16-18 | Evanston Vineyard |Chicago
The central theme of this year’s meeting is “Hearing, Seeing, and Remembering As The People of God.” Together we will explore hearing, seeing, and remembering as theological, biblical, spiritual, pastoral, historical, and embodied practices.
This year, in partnership with Vineyard Justice Network, SVS 2020 will feature several sessions that explore the intersections of our theological investigation with the practical work of pursuing God’s justice.
Download the Call For Papers
All proposals are due by January 21, 2020.
This year, our broad interdisciplinary conversations will focus around the following themes:
- Listening and Remembering in the Vineyard and Beyond
- Seeing Through A Trinitarian Lens
- Hearing and Seeing In Biblical Texts
- Women in the Vineyard
Seminar-style conversations will focus on (at least) the following topics,:
- Jesus Is The Answer, But What Is The Question?
- What Does Justice Look Like? What Does Justice Sound Like?
- “Do You See This Woman?” (Luke 7:44)
- Charismatic Sacramental Theology
- The Holy Spirit Before Christianity: A Book Review Panel with Dr. Jack Levison
- Remembering In Leadership Transitions
- Listening To Indigenous Voices
- Listening, Discernment, and Spiritual Practices
- And more…
The Problem of Package-Deal Ethics
The great curse of our generation is how such polarization is warping the way we think through our deepest moral dilemmas. When it comes to ethics, we find our answers too readily and unthinkingly according to which side of the political spectrum we see ourselves on. Values, convictions, ideals, positions on the most momentous debates of the day, beliefs about what should and shouldn’t be done, all get bundled into liberal and conservative “package deals” which we then buy into.
Dr. James Mumford, “Package-deal ethics”
Dr. James Mumford, one of our plenary speakers, will help us do a deep dive into what’s at stake when we allow politics to bundle our ethics for us, as well as challenging us to pursue a Kingdom-orientation to “living in truth.” Check out his article, “Package-Deal Ethics.”
VJN will also offer an off-site immersion, which will enable us to “get proximate” to people and communities as we seek to develop a Kingdom approach ethics, in response to the way our partisan politics work to limit us to highly-problematic “package-deal ethics.”