May 3 - 5 2016

Clergy Conference | Diocese of Long Island 

Scriptural Imagination: Exploring the Terrain

Scriptural Imagination: Exploring the Terrain

The Diocese of Long Island's annual clergy conference will welcome the Rev. Dr. Roger Ferlo, President of Bexley-Seabury, An Episcopal Center for Learning and Discipleship this year. Deacons, priests, and bishops are invited.

For many of us in ordained ministry, our training in how to interpret Scripture and our experience with works of the religious imagination—expressed in visual art, in music, and in poetry—too often have had very little to do with one another.  This need not—should not—be the case.  From the very beginning, Scripture has shaped the imagination of an immense range of artists, poets and musicians in the Christian world.  And in turn, artists, poets and musicians have time and again reshaped and oftentimes challenged our own responses to Scripture, whether in prayer or in preaching.  In the company of artists and poets ranging from Rublev to Raphael and Dante to Dickinson, during our sessions together we will ask the Spirit to have its way with us as readers and preachers of Scripture engaging in the full play of the Scriptural imagination.