In
this edition:
"Renewing
Compassion Boundaries," October 4, 2007
We hope you plan to attend the 2007 Oates Institute
Annual Gathering and Oates Award Dinner on Thursday,
October 4, in Louisville, Kentucky, when Dr. Brooks Faulkner,
the 2007 Oates Award recipient, will speak on "Renewing
Compassion Boundaries."
The Annual Gathering and the Oates Award Dinner is our
big opportunity each year to bring the Oates Institute
learning community together in person. Members, friends,
and acquaintances of the Oates Institute are all invited
to join us for this special evening.
This year's gather and dinner will be held at KYE's
II at the Water Tower Square just across the river from
downtown Louisville in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The gathering
starts at 6 pm EDT with the dinner and program at 6:30
pm EDT. Reservations are $30 per person and must be made
by September 28.
For
more information and to make reservations, click
here
Sign
Up Now for October Seminars
Registration is now open
for the October online seminars offered by the Oates
Institute. These seminars will be offered from October
8-26 in the WEOI Online Learning Center utilizing the
Oates Institute's connected
learning approach. Eight different seminars will
be offered in October, including:
- Care at the End of Life
- Dreams, Journals, and Spirituality
- Encountering Depression and Anxiety
in Ministry
- Fighting the Tiger: The Psychological
and Spiritual Effects of Emotional Trauma
- Hope and Wholeness
- Receiving the Gifts of Aging
- Substance Abuse and the Family
- When Religion Gets Sick
All of these seminars offer 12 contact hours of approved
continuing education credit for counselors (NBCC), chaplains
(12 CCEs), social workers, and congregational leaders.
For more information on the seminars and
to register, click
here
Fall
Online Conference to address "The Healing Power
of Forgiveness"
The Healing Power of Forgiveness is the theme of our
Fall Online Conference to be held November 5-16 in the
WEOI Online Learning Center.
At a time when researchers are actively exploring the
physical and psychological effects of forgiveness, this
online conference will enable participants to better
understand the dynamic of forgiveness as a means for
alleviating suffering.
Combining video clips, real-life stories, academic research,
and theological reflection, the conference will include
presentations by Rick Rouse, author of Fire of Grace:
The Healing Power of Forgiveness;Martin
Doblmeier, documentary filmmaker with Journey Films and
director of the film, The Power of Forgiveness;
Kathy Manis Findley, Director of the Center for
Healing and Hope in Little Rock; Sue Wintz, chaplain
and mother of a teenage child killed in an automobile
accident; David McNeely, retired psychiatrist and father
of a teenage child killed in an automobile accident,
Leslie Hollon, pastor and activist in the reconciliation
movement, and Victoria Wilson Darrah, daughter of martyred
evangelist in Uganda, refugee, and peacemaker.
This conference will allow participants to identify
the mental, physical, and spiritual health benefits of
forgiveness and to recognize the need for forgiveness
as it is encountered daily in both dramatic and everyday
events.
The Oates Institute will host this conference in the
Institute’s Online Learning Center and it will
be accessible on the Web from any computer in the world
with internet access. The conference will include
several forms of interaction. While there will
be some online discussions scheduled in real time, the
conference is primarily designed to fit into participants’ normal
schedules and allow them to access the presentations
and interact with new colleagues from their home or office
computer.
For
more information and to register, click
here
Check
Out the New Front Page for our Online Campus
As part of the renovation occurring
on the Oates Institute's Online Campus, we now have the
new front page. Go to www.oates.org to
check it out. This entry point to the Oates Institute
campus will feature the latest news within the learning
community with connection through the top drop down menus
and the left side menus to other features on the cyber
campus. This is just the beginning of a year long process
for enhancing the learning community's information sharing
and interaction.
To learn more about the
Oates Institute campus, click
here to take the tour
Subscriber
Bonus in the Center for Oates Studies:
"The Presence of God in the Strange and the Stranger "
from The Presence of God in Pastoral Counseling by
Wayne E. Oates
"Marketplace
thought about the Presence of God is one of sentimental
familiarity,"
observed Wayne Oates in this chapter. "In
stark contrast, however, is the persistent biblical
wisdom that God's Presence comes to us when we
know it not. At the least, our awareness of the
Presence is an afterthought. At the most, God comes
to us as a Stranger amid strange and foreign events.
We are more or less ambushed by God's Presence
in unexpected ways and unforeseen events.
We are currently republishing
this out-of-print work in the Center for Oates Studies
as part of the Wayne E. Oates Library Collection.
To read the first chapter, "Some Meanings of the
Presence of God," click on the link below. If
you are not a member of the Oates Institute, you are
invited to subscribe
to Lifelong Learning @ Oates.Org to receive access
to the full text of this chapter (and the chapters
to follow).
Click
here to read Chapter 4
of the Presence
of God in Pastoral Counseling by
Wayne Oates
