2011 Convocation & Pastors' School: Drawn Into Scripture. Arts and the Life of the Church

Anthony Kelley is associate professor of the practice of music in the Duke University Department of Music. His recent work, such as his soundtracks to the H. Lee Waters/Tom Whiteside film “Conjuring Bearden” [2006] and Dante James’s film, “The Doll” [2007], explores music as linked with other media, arts, and sociological phenomena. He is a performer in and co-director of an improvisational postmodern new-blues musical collective called the BLAK Ensemble.

Lillian Daniel delivers the sermon during the Service of the Word. Lillian Daniel has served since 2004 as senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, Ill., in suburban Chicago, and before that was senior minister at the Church of the Redeemer, in New Haven, Conn. She is the author of "Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony," and chapters in "Anxious about Empire" and "From Nomads to Pilgrims: Stories from Practicing Congregations." A frequent contributor to The Christian Century, Daniel has also written for publications including Books and Culture, Leadership, The Journal for Preachers and The Biblical Preaching Journal. She has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary, where she serves on the Board of Trustees, and is co-host of “30 Good Minutes,” a program on Chicago public television station WTTW.

Marilynne Robinson reads from her book and answers questions. Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels "Housekeeping," "Gilead" (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005), and "Home," and the nonfiction works "The Death of Adam and Mother Country." "Housekeeping" was included in The New York Times Books of the Century and listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by the Guardian Observer (UK). In 1997 she received a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Lillian Daniel delivers the sermon during the Service of the Word and Table. Lillian Daniel has served since 2004 as senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, Ill., in suburban Chicago, and before that was senior minister at the Church of the Redeemer, in New Haven, Conn. She is the author of "Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony," and chapters in "Anxious about Empire" and "From Nomads to Pilgrims: Stories from Practicing Congregations." A frequent contributor to The Christian Century, Daniel has also written for publications including Books and Culture, Leadership, The Journal for Preachers and The Biblical Preaching Journal. She has taught preaching at Yale Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary, where she serves on the Board of Trustees, and is co-host of “30 Good Minutes,” a program on Chicago public television station WTTW.