{"id":1016,"date":"2016-02-17T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/engaging-faith-conference-meets-feb-22-23\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:05:21","slug":"engaging-faith-conference-meets-feb-22-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/engaging-faith-conference-meets-feb-22-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Faith conference meets Feb. 22-23"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University will hold its Engaging Faith 2013 conference Friday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. through 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23 at Daniel Memorial Chapel on the Furman campus. The annual conference welcomes speakers from diverse perspectives who encourage attendees in their spiritual journeys and challenge them to examine the intersections of faith, life and vocation.<\/p>\n

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Yvette Flunder<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bren\u00e9 Brown<\/p><\/div>\n

The conference, \u201cThe Gifts of Imperfection and Inclusion,\u201d is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Office of the Chaplains, NEXUS Center, the South Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work (SCSCSW), Town Magazine<\/em>, the Greenville Journal<\/em>, and the Greenville Hospital System.\u00a0 The series of events is open to church members, laity, social workers, health-care professionals, ministers and other interested community members.<\/p>\n

Speakers for the event are Bren\u00e9 Brown and Yvette Flunder.<\/p>\n

Brown (www.brenebrown.com<\/a>) is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Brown\u2019s research on shame and empathy led her to develop a concept she calls \u201cWholeheartedness.\u201d Her work has been featured on PBS, NPR, and CNN, and was the topic of her 2012 TED talk as well as two 2010 TEDx talks presented in Houston and Kansas City. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Now having a broader scope, TED began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds:\u00a0Technology, Entertainment, Design.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flunder is an acclaimed preacher, educator, conference speaker and singer who in 1991 founded the City of Refuge United Church of Christ, a thriving inner-city congregation in San Francisco uniting gospel and social ministries. She is an ordained minister of the UCC and a graduate of the ministry studies and master\u2019s programs at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, Calif. She received her doctorate from San Francisco Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n

To register online for Engaging Faith, go to http:\/\/engagingfaith.eventbrite.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information about the event, contact Susan Bennett in the Office of the Chaplains at 864-294-2133 or susan.bennett@furman.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 For questions about contact hours and CEU credits for LPC\/LMFT\/LMSW\/LISW, please contact SCSCSW president Jennifer Massey at jmassey@stillwindministries.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furman will hold its Engaging Faith 2013 conference Feb. 22-23 in Daniel Chapel on campus. This year’s speakers are Bren\u00e9 Brown, a nationally renowned speaker whose 2010 TEDx Houston talk on the power of vulnerability has received more than seven million views, and Yvette Flunder, founder of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in San Francisco. This year’s conference is titled \u201cThe Gifts of Imperfection and Inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}