Convocation & Pastors’ School

The annual Convocation & Pastors’ School is an intensive two-day conference that offers lectures, worship and seminars for Christian leaders of all traditions. Led by scholars and practitioners from Duke and beyond, this event is a cooperative endeavor with the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church. The Convocation also includes alumni gatherings.

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2012 Convocation & Pastors’ School

October 15-16, 2012


Featuring:

  • Richard J. Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary
  • Andy Crouch, author and special assistant to the president of Christianity Today International
  • Sarah Coakley, Norris-Hulse Professor in Divinity at the University of Cambridge
  • Prince Raney Rivers, Senior Pastor, United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, N.C.

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Past Events

Audio recordings of the lectures and worship services held during previous sessions of Convocation & Pastors’ School are available for download through iTunes U.

2011

Drawn into Scripture: Arts and the Life of the Church
Featuring Jeremy Begbie, Marilynne Robinson, Anthony Kelley and the BLAK Ensemble, and Lillian Daniel

2010

The Living Witness: Tradition, Innovation, and the Church
Featuring N.T. Wright, Rob Bell, Andy Crouch, and Vashti McKenzie

2009

The Next Generation
Featuring Os Guinness and Philip Jenkins


2008

For Such a Time as This
Featuring L. Gregory Jones, Janice Riggle Huie, Ron Heifetz, Al Gwinn, Greg Palmer, Larry Goodpaster, and Adam Hamilton

2007

Our Daily Bread
Featuring Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Stanley Hauerwas, Ellen Davis, Janice Virtue, Norman Wirzba, L. Gregory Jones, and Carol Bechtel