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Alexis D. Abernethy, associate provost for faculty inclusion and equity and professor of psychology, explores the transformative effects of worship on body, spirit, and community.

The theme of the 2019 Brehm Conference, “Worship, Theology, and the Arts in a Divided World,” focused on how worship, theology, and the arts might be vehicles for reconciliation and forge unity across divides—whether political or economic, racial or relational, linguistic or cultural, in the academy or in the public square, inside the church or outside of it. David M. Bailey, founder and executive director of Arrabon, was the conference’s keynote speaker. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. 

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Robert K. Johnston, professor of theology and culture, speaks about religious experience and the activity of the Holy Spirit in the wider world outside the church.

The theme of the 2019 Brehm Conference, “Worship, Theology, and the Arts in a Divided World,” focused on how worship, theology, and the arts might be vehicles for reconciliation and forge unity across divides—whether political or economic, racial or relational, linguistic or cultural, in the academy or in the public square, inside the church or outside of it. David M. Bailey, founder and executive director of Arrabon, was the conference’s keynote speaker. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. 

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

David M. Bailey, founder and executive director of Arrabon, talks about the church’s role in the work of reconciliation, as well as the need for creating particular kinds of worship rooted in specific contexts.

The theme of the 2019 Brehm Conference, “Worship, Theology, and the Arts in a Divided World,” focused on how worship, theology, and the arts might be vehicles for reconciliation and forge unity across divides—whether political or economic, racial or relational, linguistic or cultural, in the academy or in the public square, inside the church or outside of it. David M. Bailey, founder and executive director of Arrabon, was the conference’s keynote speaker. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. 

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Roberta R. King, professor of communication and ethnomusicology, reflects on the potential that music and the performing arts have to foster interfaith dialogue and mutual relationship between different religious communities.

The theme of the 2019 Brehm Conference, “Worship, Theology, and the Arts in a Divided World,” focused on how worship, theology, and the arts might be vehicles for reconciliation and forge unity across divides—whether political or economic, racial or relational, linguistic or cultural, in the academy or in the public square, inside the church or outside of it. David M. Bailey, founder and executive director of Arrabon, was the conference’s keynote speaker. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology, and the Arts. 

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Alexis Abernethy, associate provost for faculty inclusion and equity and professor of psychology, responds to Dwight Hopkins’ lecture, focusing on psychological health, speaking truth to power, and her research on music and embodiment.

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and scholars from the Fuller community lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and the social, cultural, and pastoral intersections of the Black experience. Dr. Hopkins was the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, January 21–25, 2019. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. Learn more: fuller.edu/pannell-center/

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Kenneth Waters, associate dean of the School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University, responds to Dwight Hopkins’ lecture, focusing on the structural realities of poverty in Martin Luther King’s vision for justice.

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and scholars from the Fuller community lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and the social, cultural, and pastoral intersections of the Black experience. Dr. Hopkins was the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, January 21–25, 2019. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. Learn more: fuller.edu/pannell-center/

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Oscar Owens, Christian Education Director at West Angeles Church of God in Christ, responds to Dwight Hopkin’s lecture, focusing on the biblical basis for economic justice.

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and scholars from the Fuller community lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and the social, cultural, and pastoral intersections of the Black experience. Dr. Hopkins was the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, January 21–25, 2019. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. Learn more: fuller.edu/pannell-center/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Lecturers and respondents of the 2019 Martin Luther King Celebration reflect with the audience on the implications of the day’s lectures for the broader American church.

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and scholars from the Fuller community lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and the social, cultural, and pastoral intersections of the Black experience. Dr. Hopkins was the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, January 21–25, 2019. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. Learn more: fuller.edu/pannell-center/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, lectures on the tangible lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. on the relationships among race, economic hardship, and theology.

Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and scholars from the Fuller community lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and the social, cultural, and pastoral intersections of the Black experience. Dr. Hopkins was the featured speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, January 21–25, 2019. The celebration included lectures, conversations, worship and more, and was sponsored by the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies. Learn more: fuller.edu/pannell-center/

For more resources for a deeply formed spiritual life, visit Fuller.edu/Studio

Peter C. Hill, professor of psychology at Biola University’s Rosemead School of Psychology, considers the ways the virtues of humility and gratitude affect everyday human life.

The Integration Symposium is an annual conference held by the School of Psychology on the integration of psychology and theology. At the 2019 conference, Peter C. Hill, professor of psychology at Biola University’s Rosemead School of Psychology, presented on “A Psychology of the Ordinary: Humility, Grace, and Gratitude as Religious Inflections of the World.” His three lectures, and the faculty responses to each, explored how humility, grace, and gratitude—as elements of religious experience—impact everyday human life.

Listen to all of the 2019 integration lectures and responses on Fuller.edu/Studio.