You can make plans now to attend Abilene Christian University’s 108th annual Summit by exploring the program booklet now online. More than 130 top preachers and teachers are scheduled to present Sept. 21-24 on the theme “Earthed: Discovering Our Origin in God.”
Theme Speakers are Don McLaughlin, pulpit minister at North Atlanta (Ga.) Church of Christ; Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor, New York Times best-selling author and Butman Professor of Religion at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga.; Lawrence Murray, assistant professor of psychology and family studies/liberal arts at Oklahoma Christian University; Sam Barrington, pastor of Living Stones Church in South Bend, Ind.; Dr. Stanley Hauerwaus, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School; Sam Gonzalez (’93), campus minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio; and Randy Harris, popular author and speaker, and instructor of Bible, mission and ministry at ACU.
Special Guest presenters are Brown, Hauerwaus and Andrea Dilley, author and documentary producer from Austin.
Taylor was featured in the April 28 cover story of Time magazine. She was named in 1996 by Baylor University as one of the 12 most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, along with Dr. Fred Craddock, Billy Graham and Dr. Charles Swindoll. Hauerwaus’ book, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic, was named one of the 100 most important books on religion of the 20th century.
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