The Church of the Brethren Webcast Series, in collaboration with the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, with technical production courtesy of Bethany Theological Seminary, was pleased to host live interactive video streaming of the conference being held in honor of the 300th Anniversary of the Brethren movement (including the Church of the Brethren):
Honoring a Legacy, Embracing a Future:
Three Hundred Years
of Brethren Heritage
As each session that was able to be webcast becames available, there was a link that allowed one to see and hear the conference sessions. Recordings of those broadcasts are now available here for viewing over the internet... simply click the link associated with each session to watch the recording!
(Links to recordings have been updated as of 2/22/2008!)
SESSIONS BROADCAST:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
7:30p Keynote Address by Stewart Hoover
"Brethren Heritage and Modern Culture: Vision and Challenge"
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:15 am to 9:30 am CONTEMPORARY ISSUES PANEL
“Living Our Twenty-First Century Faith: Being Brethren in a Pluralistic Society”
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10:00 am to 11:00 am PLENARY SESSION
“Anabaptist and Pietist Influences on the Early Brethren: Approach to Brethren Beginnings” -- Marcus Meier
(permission not granted to broadcast or record)
11:00 am to 12:15 pm PEACE PANEL
Panel: “Honoring our Peace Witness Through Activism and Scholarship”
Timothy McElwee, Kenneth Brown, Cliff Kindy, Deborah Roberts
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2:00 pm to 3:00 pm PLENARY SESSION
“Balancing Word and Spirit in Anabaptist, Pietist, and Brethren Hermeneutics” --Dale Stoffer
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3:30 pm to 4:45 pm PEACE
“The Brethren Witness and the Search for a Culture of Peace in Africa”
Donald E. Miller
“Pennsylvania's Civil War Conscientious Objectors: A Brethren Perspective”
Jonathan R. Stayer
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7:00 pm PLENARY SESSION
“The New Testament Is Our Creed: Brethren and the Canon”
Chris Bucher
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
8:15 am to 9:00 am PLENARY SESSION
“A Profile of the Church of the Brethren Today”
--Carl Desportes Bowman
(permission not granted to broadcast or record)
9:15 am to 10:00 am PLENARY SESSION
Panel of Young Adults: "What Story Will a Peace Church Tell?"
Scott Holland
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10:30 am to 11:30 am PLENARY SESSION
“Reflections on What I Have Heard”
Richard T. Hughes
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