The Festival is now LIVE ONLINE…and FREE!

May 18, 2020 - May 22, 2020
Offered by Luther Seminary
No Cost
2481 Como Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108
St. Paul ,  MN ,  55108
USA
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The World Needs Good Preaching…
Now More than Ever

The Festival of Homiletics is moving online! And because there’s no better time than our current crisis to learn how to “preach a new earth,” registration for the virtual conference is totally FREE!

 

Preaching a New Earth: Climate and Creation

Be inspired by God’s Word proclaimed by some of the nation’s finest ministers and teachers. Experience the fellowship of hundreds of preachers. Learn and worship in an atmosphere that is dynamic, friendly, nurturing, and prophetic. Come renew, refresh, and recharge your spirit.

Scripture’s first description of God is as creator. God brought the world into existence and all that makes up the world as we know it. But God realized that caring for creation could never be a sole endeavor. We are charged with that co-tending, and preachers are challenged with imagining and preaching about an ecological God. Our God is committed to, dependent on, and immersed in all the Earth provides, sustains, and yet, needs our help to bring the fullness of God’s creative work to bear. Our God needs our help to speak the truth about where and how God’s Earth groans for renewal, even resurrection, how our very climate changes are God’s cries for help. The 2020 Festival of Homiletics theme invites preachers to imagine their own role in God’s creative work, to be courageous in preaching about God’s creative activity, and to claim boldly our role in caring for God’s creation, when God’s very creation is at stake.

 

Registration Options for Registered Festival Participants

Dear Festival registrant,

Thank you for your patience as we’ve reimagined this year’s Festival in light of the ongoing pandemic. We want to make this as easy for you as possible, as well as provide you with the transformative preaching experiences you’ve come to expect from the Festival, so we’re giving you a choice between three options:

OPTION 1:
Keep Your Registration and Get a Ticket for Next Year’s Festival, Plus On-Demand Recordings to This Year’s Festival FREE (a $75 value)

This is the easiest option—simply do nothing!

Your registration will be automatically applied to next year’s Festival of Homiletics in Denver, CO. You can use the ticket yourself or transfer it to another attendee.

In addition, your registration is your ticket to all the sessions at this year’s virtual Festival—PLUS, the full complement of Festival recordings at no additional charge (a $75 value).

OPTION 2:
Transfer Your Registration to Another Transformative Preaching Opportunity

We have two hands-on preaching offerings for you to choose from:

  • Lisa Cressman’s Sermon Camp, an online preaching course beginning the week of April 20, 2020, and
  • Working Preacher Presents: The Craft of Preaching, scheduled to take place October 5-7, 2020 at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, MN.

If you would like to take this course of action, email [email protected] with details about which opportunity you would like to select. Your registration would be complete; no additional fees would apply.

OPTION 3: Request a Refund

Email your request to [email protected]. This will cancel your entire order, including the recording package. There is a non-refundable processing fee of $50.

We hope that this would be a last resort for you, as moving the Festival online has had a significant negative impact on our operating budget. However, we understand that the above options might not be possible for you and will process your refund request expediently.

 

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