Opening Eucharist
Trinity Institute 2006 begins. The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry, Bishop of North Carolina, preaches at the opening Eucharist. Bishop Curry has a national preaching and teaching ministry, having been featured on The Protestant Hour and as a frequent speaker at conferences around the country. [Transcript]

James Alison
James Alison speaks on being "Blindsided by God." James Alison is a Roman Catholic theologian, priest, and author. Having lived with the Dominican Order between 1981 and 1995, he currently travels the world as a self-described itinerant preacher. [Transcript]

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons has a long history in civil rights, human rights, and peace work. She was a disciple in Sufism (the mystical stream in Islam) from 1971-1986 under the guidance of Sheikh Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyadeen, a Sufi mystic from Sri Lanka. [Transcript]

Panel Discussion
Trinity Institute's 2006 National Theological Conference features two panel discussions with Institute participants and audience questions. This is the the first panel discussion.

Special Concert
An "Informance" - scenes from the opera "Dead Man Walking" by Jake Heggie. With a Libretto by Terrance McNally, based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, who speaks on the second day of the conference. Scenes from the opera will be performed by the world-renowned Mezzo-Soprano, Frederica von Stade, and the incomparable Lyric Mezzo, Joyce DiDonato.

Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf is the director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. A native of Croatia, he has forged a theology of forgiveness and non-violence in the face of the horrendous violence experienced in Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. [Transcript]

Sr. Helen Prejean
Sister Helen Prejean serves as spiritual advisor both to convicted prisoners and to the families of their victims. She began working in prison ministry in New Orleans in 1981, when she became pen pals with Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers, sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. [Transcript]

Panel Discussion
Trinity Institute's 2006 National Theological Conference features two panel discussions with Institute participants and audience questions. This is the second panel discussion.

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