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2015 Blandy Lectures

September 29, 2015 @ 8:00 am - September 30, 2015 @ 5:00 pm

Seminary of the Southwest and the Southwest Alumni Association are honored to welcome the Rt. Rev. Nicholas Knisely as the 2015 Blandy Lecturer. Named for the first dean of Seminary of the Southwest, the Very Rev. Gray Blandy, the annual Blandy Lectures are hosted by the Southwest Alumni Association and held over the course of two days on the seminary campus in the fall of each year. This year, the lectures will be held Tuesday, September 29th thru Wednesday, September 30th.

Registration cost totals $125 for this year’s event and can be

paid online (during registration) or by check

Please note, in order to register for the event you will need to login using your Southwest Alumni Directory login information. If you have not registered, you will be promted to do so on that page. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Campus suites are still available for this year’s Blandy Lectures and Alumni Convocation. Please contact Lesley Tumbush at [email protected] to make your reservation. Once campus suites fill-up, we encourage you to book a room at either of these hotels:

Doubletree Downtown Austin or Doubletree University Area

Seminary of the Southwest welcomes members of the Austin community to attend Bishop Knisely’s lectures on Tuesday, Sep. 29th at 7pm and Wednesday, Sep. 30th at 2pm at no cost.


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About our Lecturer: Bp. Nicholas Kniselyknisely_-_rhode_island

Bishop Knisely was elected to be the 13th Bishop of Rhode Island in June of 2012, and was ordained Bishop on November 17th, 2012.

Bishop Knisely was born and raised in Pennsylvania and met his wife Karen while they were both students at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster. Later, as a graduate student at the University of Delaware, he decided to leave behind his studies of Physics and Astronomy and was sent to Yale/Berkeley Divinity School to study for the priesthood. He completed his Masters of Divinity and was ordained to the diaconate in Delaware in 1991, then to the priesthood in 1992. In 2013 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity, also from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.

Bishop Knisely previously served as a priest in Delaware, Western and Eastern Pennsylvania, and as Dean of the Cathedral in Phoenix Arizona. He has been active in a number of ministries with particular focus in the areas of homelessness, communications, college and youth, finance, and ecumenical relations. He taught Physics and Astronomy for nearly seven years at Lehigh University while he was serving in Bethlehem PA. He was the first chair of the General Convention Standing Commission on Communications and Technology and was part of the Moravian-Episcopal Dialog that drew up the full communion agreement between the two denominations. Karen and Nicholas Knisely have been married for 30 years and have an adult daughter named Kenney.

Hear interview with Bishop Knisely on NPR regarding confronting the diocese’s slave trading past

2015 Blandy Lectures & Alumni Convocation Schedule*

Hosted by the Southwest Alumni Association

Monday, September 28
7:00 PM – “Welcome Home to Southwest” informal dinner and social at Posse East

Tuesday, September 29
8:30 AM – Registration Opens
10:30 AM – Continuing Education Session 1 in Knapp Auditorium
11:45 AM – Holy Eucharist in Christ Chapel – Celebrated in the Spanish Language
Lunch
1:30-3:00 PM – Continuing Education: Seminary 2.0
3:00-3:30 PM Break
3:30-5:00 PM – Continuing Education: Seminary 2.0 Continued
5:00 PM – Evening Prayer in Christ Chapel
Dean’s Reception immediately following Evensong in Rather House (5:30 p.m.)
7:00 PM – Hal Brook Perry Award Presentation & Blandy Lecture #1 by Bp. Knisely

Wednesday, September 30
9:00 AM – Breakfast with the Dean & Southwest Faculty followed by annual Alumni Association Meeting
10:30 AM – Continuing Education Session 3
11:45 AM – Alumni Eucharist in Christ Chapel
Lunch
2:00 PM – Durstan R McDonald Teaching Award presented & Blandy Lecture #2 by Bp. Knisely
3:30 PM – Southwest Alumni Association Closing Reception

*this schedule is subject to change

Details

Start:
September 29, 2015 @ 8:00 am
End:
September 30, 2015 @ 5:00 pm

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