Listening to Our Lives: A Weekend with the Rev. Frederick Schmidt
Friday, October 24, 2008 - Saturday, October 25, 2008
Location: Portland, OR
Call: (503) 478-1218
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Event Description: Evening Lecture: “Triage Theology: What is Urgent; What it Essential?”
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:30 – 9:00pm
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral – Kempton Hall
147 NW 19th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209
Cost: $15 general, $10 Trinity Cathedral members, $5 students, Free to Diocesan Clergy
Saturday Workshop: “His & Hers: Notes on the Spiritual Life”
Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:00am – 3:00pm
Trinity Cathedral – Kempton Hall
Cost: $50 general, $35 Trinity Cathedral members, $25 Diocesan Clergy, $15 students (includes lunch)
Tickets & Information: www.center-for-spiritual-development.org
The Center for Spiritual Development is pleased to present an evening lecture and Saturday workshop with the Rev. Frederick Schmidt, October 24 & 25, 2008 in Kempton Hall at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. A well-known speaker and educator on spiritual formation and discernment, Rev. Schmidt will discuss the challenges and opportunities present in discerning and following a spiritual path in our increasing complex and distracting world.
The Reverend Dr. Frederick W. Schmidt, Jr. is Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas. An Episcopal priest, he also serves as the director of the Episcopal studies program. He is canonically resident in the Diocese of Washington and a member of the national church’s Board of Examining Chaplains.
Prior to his arrival at SMU, he served as Canon Educator and Director of Programs in Spirituality and Religious Education at Washington National Cathedral; special assistant to the President and Provost of La Salle University in Philadelphia; a Fellow of the American Council on Education; and Dean of St. George’s College in Jerusalem. He has also served in numerous parishes in the United States and abroad.
He is the author of numerous published articles and reviews, including forty-four entries in Doubleday’s Anchor Bible Dictionary, as well as contributions to Feminist Theology and The Scottish Journal of Theology. He is author of A Still Small Voice: Women, Ordination and the Church, The Changing Face of God, When Suffering Persists, Conversations with Scripture: Revelation and What God Wants for Your Life, Finding Answers to the Deepest Questions. His more recent work includes an article co-written for the Heythrop Journal with Drs. Jeff Bishop and Philipp Rosemann, entitled, “Fides ancilla medicinae: On the Ersatz Liturgy of Death in Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine.”
His work in higher education includes service as a lecturer in New Testament studies at Oxford University, and as a tutor at Keble College, Oxford. He has been a guest lecturer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Southwestern Medical Center at the University of Texas, Dallas.
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