2010 The Speakers

 

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John Dominic Crossan

Crossan is an Irish-American religious scholar known for co-founding the controversial Jesus Seminar. Crossan is a major figure in the fields of biblical archaeology, anthropology and New Testament textual and higher criticism. He is also a lecturer who has appeared in television documentaries about Jesus and the Bible. He is especially vocal in the field of Historical Jesus studies.

John Dominic Crossan's Website            John Dominic Crossan's Books                 Crossan at Wikipedia

 

   

John Dominic Crossan

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Paul Brandeis Raushenbush

Rev. Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and The Riverside Church in New York City.

Paul Raushenbush at Beliefnet
Paul Raushenbush in American Progress
Paul Raushenbush on Obama at Huffington Post

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Al Staggs 

Al Staggs holds a B. A. from Hardin-Simmons University, an M.R.E. degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Th.M. from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.  He was honored as a Charles E. Merrill Fellow at Harvard in the spring of 1983 with major emphasis in Applied Theology under the direction of Harvey Cox.  Al also completed a year internship in Clinical Pastoral Education at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.  Al served as Baptist minister for twenty-four years prior to becoming a full-time performance artist.  

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Rev. Elizabeth Rickert Dowdy has moderated JA’s sessions the past two years, and led closing worship services at every JA since its beginning.  She is a graduate of Candler School of Theology, Emory University and now pastors Tar Wallet Baptist Church, located in Cumberland, Va., where she lives at the State Park with her  husband, Chief Ranger Lee Dowdy, and her daughter, Rozelia. In between creating sermons and making baby food, Elizabeth enjoys serving on the board of Virginia Baptist Women in Ministry, which she moderated in 2007-8, and participating in other clergy support and continuing education networks.

 

            
  

Rev. Elizabeth Dowdy and Rozelia