2011: Reconciliation in History, Music, and Literature

 Plenary Addresses:          

            Charles Marsh, “Are We Still of Any Use?: The Audacious Hope of the Engaged Scholar
            Trudier Harris, “The Terrible Pangs of Compromise: Racial Reconciliation in African American Literature
            Rosephanye Dunn Powell, "African-American Spirituals and Gospel: Song Creating Community”
           
One of the highlights of the National Conference was the opportunity to experience music and the theme of reconciliation, first at the presentation of the documentary, Mississippi Remixed, hosted by Samford alum and Lilly Graduate Fellow Joel Davis on Friday afternoon and for which Davis composed the score.      

  

Music and reconciliation were woven together again at the Friday evening Vespers, “Standing in the Need of Prayer,” on October 21 in A. Hamilton Reid Chapel.  Attendees heard the moving testimony of Carolyn McKinstry, who was present at the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where she lost four of her friends.  Vesper music was performed by Samford University students, including the Samford University A Cappella Choir.

 

 

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May LFP Update

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Registration is now open for the 2023 Administrators Workshop

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Announcing the winner of the 2022 Arlin G. Meyer Prize

We are pleased to announce Gordon Johnston, Professor of Creative Writing at Mercer University, as the winner of the 2022 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Imaginative Writing for his book of poetry, Scaring the Bears. For more information and to see the finalist for this prize, click here.


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New edition of Leading Lives that Matter released

In their second edition of Leading Lives That Matter, editors Mark Schwehn and Dorothy Bass compile a wide range of texts—from ancient and contemporary literature, social commentary, and philosophy—related to questions of vital interest for those who are trying to decide what to do with their lives and what kind of human beings they hope to become. Leading Lives that Matter has been an important text in many of our fellowship and grant programs, and it contains excellent resources. Click here for more information and an excerpt.