March 5 - Nurture Conference

3/5/2012
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Nurture
March 5-6, 2012
Lipscomb University campus
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Glandion Carney of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Birmingham, Ala., will be the keynote speaker at Nurture 2012. Held March 5-6, it is the third annual conference on spiritual formation coordinated by Lipscomb University’s Institute for Christian Spirituality (ICS).

Nurture 2012, a free conference open to the public, will also feature sessions with Gary Moon, founder of the journal Conversations, and sessions on spiritual formation through scripture taught by faculty from Lipscomb University’s ICS, College of Bible and Hazelip School of Theology.

About Glandion Carney

Carney is an experienced speaker, consultant, spiritual director and retreat guide. Glandion is an ordained Priest of Anglican Church in Rwanda under Bishop John Rucyahana. He has also served as chaplain for the Christian Legal Society.  He is a member of Renovare; an author of eight books; a faculty member for the Academy of Spiritual Formation of the Upper Room in Nashville, Tenn.; consultant to the Salvation Army in the area of spiritual care; and a leading speaker on the subjects of spiritual formation and prayer. He currently serves the local church at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Ala. His most recent book (with William R. Long), “A Hard-Fought Hope: Journeying with Job through Mystery,” instructs the reader in living a life of integrity today.

About Gary Moon

Vice President and Chair of Integration at Richmont Graduate University, Moon founded (with David Benner and Larry Crabb) Conversations Journal. He directs the International Renovaré Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation and has authored several books, including his most recent,  “Apprenticeship With Jesus: Learning to Live like the Master.”