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Convocation 2021

We Are God's Soil:

Spiritual Leadership in a Climate-Changed World

Thursday, September 30 – Friday, October 1

Online Sessions • Guided Offline Sessions

with optional pre-events on Wednesday, September 29

$50 • Individual registration

$30 • Bangor Theological Seminary alumni discount rate

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Coming soon to a mailbox near you!

... If you register in time, that is!

We we will be mailing a BTS Box filled with useful supplies and delightful surprises meant to enhance the Convocation experience, to the first 150 people who register before Tuesday, September 21.

Maybe you've been considering registering. Maybe you've been thinking, "Oh right, Convocation is coming, but there's plenty of time!" If you've been waiting, we encourage you to take a minute to REGISTER TODAY to ensure that one of those boxes is labeled with your address and on its way to you next week!

Wednesday, September 29

4:00-5:30pm (ET) • Bangor Theological Seminary Alumni Gathering • Learn more

7:00-8:00pm (ET) • Pre-Convocation Evening of Music & Poetry featuring Convocation musician Pax Ressler

Thursday, September 30

12:30-2:30pm (ET) • Welcome Ritual & Keynote: Rev. Mariama White-Hammond

2:30-4:00pm (ET) • Asynchronous Learning & Contemplative Practice (Offline)

4:00-5:30pm (ET) • Learning with Conversationalists Part I

5:30-7:00pm (ET) • Break

7:00-8:30pm (ET) • Arts Evening with Climate Change Theatre Action • Learn more

Friday, October 1

11:00am-12:00pm (ET) • Dig Deeper Gatherings with Conversationalists

12:00-12:45pm (ET) • Break

12:45-2:00pm (ET) • Connecting & Reflecting Together

2:00-3:30pm (ET) • Asynchronous Learning & Contemplative Practice (Offline)

3:30-5:30pm (ET) • Learning with Conversationalists Part II & Closing Blessing

Note: All times listed above are Eastern — remember to accommodate for differences if you are in another time zone!

Meet our Conversationalists

Kaitlin Curtice is a Native American Christian author and speaker. As an enrolled member of the Potawatomi Citizen Band and someone who has grown up in the Christian faith, Kaitlin writes on the intersection of Indigenous spirituality, faith in everyday life, and the church.

Her first book, Glory Happening: Finding the Divine in Everyday Places, was published with Paraclete Press in 2017. It is a series of fifty essays and prayers focusing on finding the sacred in everyday life. Kaitlin’s new book NATIVE: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God, came out in May 2020... read more

Susanne Moser, Ph.D., is Director and Principal Researcher of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting in Hadley, Massachusetts. She also is an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Research Faculty in the Environmental Studies Department at Antioch University New England.

While based in California (2008-18), she was also a Social Science Research Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and a Research Associate... read more

William Morris (he/him) is a 25-Year-old climate activist located in Torrance, CA. He holds his degree in environmental science with an emphasis on ecological restoration from Humboldt State University. William works with Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA), serving first as a field organizer and now on their steering committee. He volunteers with The Climate Reality Project and is chair of the Los Angeles chapter’s Faith-based Communities Committee and is also involved with Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles... read more

The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers serves as Canon to Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry and spearheads Episcopal efforts around evangelism, reconciliation, and creation care. Her newest book, The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline and New Hope for Beloved Community (March 2021), follows on her popular titles Radical Welcome: Embracing God, The Other and the Spirit of Transformation and The Episcopal Way. Spellers has served as Chaplain to the Episcopal House of Bishops, directed and taught mission and evangelism at General Theological Seminary... read more