Friday October 8

3:00pm
Student Paper competition

4:30-5:00pm
Registration

5:00-5:10pm
Welcome

5:15-6:15pm
Parallel Session 1 (choose one)

Grant Clay
Justification as the New Exodus: Luke’s “Righteousness” Language in Acts 13:38

Russ Dudrey
Slave Marriages in 1 Cor. 7

6:30-7:15pm
Dinner (included in registration)

7:30-8:45pm
Plenary Session I

Mark Ziese
Did the Oppressed Become the Oppressors?

8:50-9:50pm
Parallel Session 2 (choose one)

Michael Halcomb
Was Mark Framed? Killing the Messenger in Mark's Tragedy

T. Scott Caulley
"Followers of a Crucified Slave" – The Title of 'Christianoi' from Roman Slur to Christian Self-Designation

Saturday October 9

8:00-9:30am
Breakfast (included in registration)

Panel Discussion
Human Trafficking

9:40-10:40am
Plenary Session II

Mark Ziese
Slaves, Eunuchs, Isaiah, and the People of the God

10:40-10:50am
Coffee Break

11:00-12:00am
Parallel Session 3 (choose one)

Karre Schaefer
For the Good of Mankind and the Glory of God: A Study of the Connecticut Kansas Colony and Its Involvement in the Kansas Territory

Loren Deckard
Christian Responsibility for National Wrongdoing

Chris Ensley
The Theology of Ecclesiological Leadership

12:00-12:45pm
Lunch (included in registration)