Winter Warming
Saturday, January 18th, 2020
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/82012237811Fl
Location
Community UMC
20 Center Street
Naperville, Illinois
20 Center Street
Naperville, Illinois
Trailblazing the New Methodism
Keynote Speaker: Tyler Schwaller
Worship Leader: Marcus Briggs Cloud
Preacher: Jay Williams
Although the weather was bad for Winter Warming 2019, we are forging ahead with a great program and confidence that this year there will be warmth inside and outside on January 18th.
Cost: $25 for most registrants, $12 for students. Lunch is included and will have gluten-free and vegetarian options.
Child care: We will have child care for infant-10 years old. A $10 donation per child is suggested. Parents should bring snacks and lunch for their child for the day. There will be an information form for the children soon so that we maintain the safest environment for all of the children.
Cost: $25 for most registrants, $12 for students. Lunch is included and will have gluten-free and vegetarian options.
Child care: We will have child care for infant-10 years old. A $10 donation per child is suggested. Parents should bring snacks and lunch for their child for the day. There will be an information form for the children soon so that we maintain the safest environment for all of the children.
The PEOPLE:
Tyler Schwaller is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and the Ackerman/Hurdle Chaplaincy Chair at Wesleyan College in Macon, GA. He is also an ordained deacon in The United Methodist Church, with membership in the Iowa Annual Conference. Tyler recently completed a ThD (Doctor of Theology) at Harvard University in the area of New Testament and Early Christianity, writing a dissertation entitled “The Use of Slaves in Early Christianity: Slaves as Subjects of Life and Thought.” His research and teaching interests include slavery in the Roman Empire; women, gender, and sexuality in early Christianity; feminist, queer, and critical race theory; archaeology and material culture; as well as the ethics of biblical interpretation. These interests converge around particular concern for how we tell the stories of those who have been marginalized and for bringing attention to people’s intellectual, spiritual, and embodied strategies for navigating their social and material circumstances. As an out, queer clergy person in The UMC, Tyler finds particular joy and meaning through kinship and solidarity with other queer folks, whose lives and loves reflect something of the Good News.
He is counsel for Anna Blaedel as Anna faced their charges for being an effective, passionate pastor, teacher, and writer while being a lesbian.
Marcus Briggs Cloud (Maskoke) is a language revitalization practitioner, musician and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Marcus is the author of several peer reviewed academic articles intersecting liberation theology, linguistics, ecology, race and gender identity. He is currently a doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary ecology at the University of Florida and is the director of Ekvn-Yefolecv Indigenous Maskoke Ecovillage centered in Weogufka, Alabama. His album Pum Vculvke Vrekkuecetv (To Honor Our Elders) was nominated for two Native American Music Awards, and in 2012 he served as the composer and choir director for the Vatican canonization liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Marcus is partnered to Tawna Little, a Kvlice Maskoke person from the Skunk Clan and they have two children Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.
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Marcus Briggs Cloud (Maskoke) is a language revitalization practitioner, musician and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Marcus is the author of several peer reviewed academic articles intersecting liberation theology, linguistics, ecology, race and gender identity. He is currently a doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary ecology at the University of Florida and is the director of Ekvn-Yefolecv Indigenous Maskoke Ecovillage centered in Weogufka, Alabama. His album Pum Vculvke Vrekkuecetv (To Honor Our Elders) was nominated for two Native American Music Awards, and in 2012 he served as the composer and choir director for the Vatican canonization liturgy with Pope Benedict XVI for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. Marcus is partnered to Tawna Little, a Kvlice Maskoke person from the Skunk Clan and they have two children Nokos-Afvnoke and Hemokke, with whom Marcus enjoys speaking exclusively in the Maskoke language.
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Rev. Jay Williams
Rev. Gerald “Jay” Williams, Ph.D.
Lead Pastor, Union United Methodist Church Boston, MA
Hailing from Buffalo, New York, Jay despises the snow and dreams of life in Wakanda. To wit, he is pretty much obsessed with “Black Panther”—as well as the 1980s cartoon series “The Thundercats.”
Rev. Dr. Jay Williams returned to Union as lead pastor on July 1, 2018, having guided this congregation September 2012 – June 2017. An ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church, Jay has served congregations in New York City, Boston, and San Francisco, including Glide Memorial.
Williams holds a Master of Divinity with highest honors from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (2009) and the Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College (2003). In May 2017, Jay received the Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Williams’s work explores the meaning of “Spirit” in black cultural discourse at the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality: particularly how spirit-talk has been a marginalizing language of power. The dissertation, entitled “Unholy Ghosts in the Age of Spirit: Identity, Intersectionality, and the Theological Horizons of Black Progress,” develops a constructive theology of spirit that rethinks hope, courage, and vitality, premised on insights from W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Howard Thurman. Through his pastoral and academic work, Jay strives to help more disinherited folk find their voices.
Rev. Jay, a queer cisgender man, and his partner, Robert, have two crazy yorkie-chihuahuas, Bentley and Hurston.
OUR AFTERNOON PANEL DISCUSSION Will include all of the above people and:
Our own Alka Lyall, chair of the NIC Delegation to General and Jurisdictional Conference, board member of the General Commission on Religion and Race, Pastor of Broadway United Methodist Church, Executive Leadership Team member of UMForward, and mother to Ronnie and Abe.
Daniel Seunghyun Cho, Pastor at HA:N UMC in Manhattan, NY, an inclusive community formed by Korean Americans.
Pastors Jonah and Cameron Overton, leaders of Zao MKE Church.
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Questions or concerns?
Questions? Need more information? Contact your NICRMN team @ reconcilingnic@gmail.com
