ICS Worldview Conference 2007

Saturday September 15, Ottawa
Burning Questions? Biblical Answers?
Can an Ancient Text Guide Us?

Keynote Speaker Richard Middleton Panel Discussion: Living Out of Scripture in Current Culture · The Rev. Dr. Gary Hauch, Priest, Church of the Ascension (Anglican) · Dr. John Patrick, MD, MRCP, President, Augustine College   Incarnating the Psalms: A Dramatic Experience · Presentation by Raymond Louter, B.A., M.F.A., M.A,   Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Communication,   Redeemer University College   Come and explore how your faith relates to current ideas... St Paul University Normandin Room (above Canterbury House Bookstore), Laframboise Hall, St Paul University 249 Main Street, Ottawa Come by OC Transpo bus routes # 5 & # 16 or by car and use free parking. [view map] Also coming to Chicago, Oct. 20, 2007

Christians confess that the Bible is the inspired word of God, meant to give direction to our lives as we seek to be faithful followers of Christ. Yet many of us yawn while we read it, if we read it at all, or resort to desperate measures like opening it randomly to shake out a contemporary meaning. How does Scripture provide guidance for living today? Isn't it full of outdated or conflicting points of view on a variety of ethical matters? This conference will help participants face squarely the ethical complexity of Scripture, while introducing a narrative framework for making sense of this difficulty, so that Scripture might provide guidance for us in the contemporary world.

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Keynote Addresses

J. Richard Middleton teaches Biblical Studies at Roberts Wesleyan College, in Rochester, NY. He is a graduate of the joint Ph.D. program of the ICS and the Free University of Amsterdam. Originally from Jamaica (he lived down the road from Bob Marley), Richard immigrated to Canada in the late seventies and soon enrolled in the ICS. He started teaching worldview courses for ICS at various universities in south western Ontario. These courses led to two books he coauthored with Brian Walsh: The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View (InterVarsity Press, 1984) and Truth is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (InterVarsity Press/SPCK, 1995), which received a Book-of-the-Year award (1996) from Christianity Today magazine.

His most recent book is The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Brazos Press, 2005). Richard and Marcia have two sons.

Quotes in response to Toronto worldview Conference address
"Outstanding. He made the complex plain. I appreciated his knowledge, teaching style, and grace."
What did you like most?
"Richards's fresh and thought provoking approach to Scripture." "Richards's accessibility."

Living Out of Scripture in Current Culture: Panel Discussion

A panel discussion will deepen our exploration of how Scripture relates to the questions of our time. Panel members bring a wide range of experience from different Christian traditions. The Rev. Dr. Gary Hauch, priest at the Anglican Church of the Ascension, has a PhD in Old Testament Theology from Princeton and extensive experience in urban ministry. Dr. John Patrick, MD, MRCP, is President of Augustine College. After completing a career as Associate Professor in Clinical Nutrition for the Departments of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Patrick now lectures on global issues worldwide for both university and church audiences. The panel will be moderated by Kathy Vandergrift, social justice advocate and board member of the ICS.

Incarnating the Psalms: A Dramatic Experience

In an experiential way, participants will enter into the Psalms, dramatically portrayed, in order to embody the themes of the Psalms in our own daily walk with God. This session will be led by Mr. Ray Louter, who studied theatre arts and worked in professional theatres before his appointment to Redeemer University College in 1986. Ray Louter has directed more than 20 dramatic productions in a wide range of styles, and takes special interest in the mystery of storytelling and cross-cultural theatrical expression.

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• Bursaries are available for those who are unable to attend due to financial reasons, thanks to an extra grant from the CRC Extension Fund.

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