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Welcome to the Buechner Institute
A Letter from the Director
Welcome to the Buechner Institute web site where you can find information about:
- our current programming,
- peruse the roster of past presenters, and
- hear about our mission to encourage conversation on issues of faith and culture.
We'd love to welcome you to King College where we have established this center in honor of novelist and preacher Frederick Buechner.
2009-2010 Programs
Here's a first peek at our coming line up. Among those set to appear here in coming months will be:
- Walter Fluker, an ethicist and director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection
- Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of Refractions
- Steve Martin, documentary filmmaker of such films as "Theologians Under Hitler" and "Elisabeth of Berlin"
- Tim Clydesdale, author of First Year Out: Understanding American Teens After High School and other books and articles
- Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age and What's Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age
- William P. Young, author of the bestseller The Shack.
You can, of course, goggle around to learn more about these who have been here and those who are coming, but I am pleased by the range of possibility promised by these visitors to the Buechner Institute.
Other invitations are pending. Brian McLaren, the Christian activist, and Nikki Grimes, the children's book author, have already agreed to be part of the 2010-2011 schedule. In February of 2010 we will also feature a Holocaust survivor, Alfred Traum, under the auspices of the Holocaust Museum. I have also convinced our National Advisory Board Chair, Jennifer Holberg to appear on our stage as part of our programming for this coming year.
Buechner Lectureship 2010
Ron Hansen will be here on January 23, 2010. One of our Board members, Ron will be the featured speaker as we celebrate our second anniversary. You know Ron as the writer of such books as Atticus, Exiles, Mariette in Ecstasy, and more. I am hopeful that many of you will join us for that event, even if you are unable to attend our regular lectures. We will be in touch about our special plans for that day.
Website & Facebook Presence
Recent changes will allow us to communicate more regularly via this site. I have also set up a Facebook presence for the Institute. (This must be what a person over 50 felt upon the arrival of automobiles in 1909.) So please do become a fan on Facebook. And, we will do all we can to let you know about things here.
Hoping to see you
So please prowl around the site. Email me if you have questions or would like to be on our mailing list (wdbrown@king.edu). We have found good work to do here on the State line between Tennessee and Virginia. Come see us if you are in the neighborhood. And do consider partnering with us to carry this good work forward.
Blessings,
Dale
