2023 Program
50 Years of Lenten Discovery
50 Years of Lenten Discovery
Reflections on 50 Years of the Thorne Sparkman School of Religion
The Panel will reflect on 50 years of Thorne Sparkman and the future of theological education. The Very Rev. John H. Bonner, III has served for 35 years as a priest in 3 parishes. He served as Dean of the Albemarle Deanary in East Carolina and on The Standing Committee. He retired from Holy Trinity, Hertford, NC in 2015 and now does Supply in East Tennessee. He is married to Deborah and they have 3 children and 5 grands. Mr. Joel King served as the Chair of the Thorne Sparkman School of Religion committee for 13 years. He is a resident of Chattanooga and has been an Episcopalian for 50+ years. The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Abts Wright is the C. K. Benedict Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at Sewanee. She is an ordained United Methodist minister who loves to teach. For more than 25 years she has been going to Chattanooga weekly to conduct bible study groups with members of the parish. The Very Rev. James F. Turrell was appointed vice provost and dean of the Sewanee School of Theology on July 1, 2020. He was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) in 1996. After parish work, he studied history at Vanderbilt University. Turrell joined the faculty of the School of Theology in 2002. He has served on the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and on the House of Bishops Theology Committee. |