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Read the articles in the Bangor Daily News:

Tuesday January 24, 2006
Convocation speaker's book, 'Gilead', praised, Ministers thank author at seminary event

Friday January 20, 2005
'Gilead' author to speak at Bangor seminary
 

 Convocation 2006 Speakers

 Tony Campolo -
Beach Quiet Hour Preacher & George Shepard Lecture on Preaching

 Marilynne Robinson -
Samuel Harris Lecture on Life & Literature

 Wilson Yates -
Enoch Pond Lecture on Applied Christianity

 Senator Susan Collins -
Public speaker


Tony Campolo
 Dr. Campolo, Professor Emeritus of sociology at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA is among the most celebrated and sought-after speakers and writers in the United States.  He has authored thirty-two books, the most recent of which are Speaking My Mind, Which Jesus?, and Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving our Cities.

                    

Dr. Campolo is an ordained minister, has served American Baptist Churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is presently recognized as an associate pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in West Philadelphia. Through EAPE, Dr. Campolo has developed and nurtured elementary and secondary schools, universities, adult and child literacy centers, tutoring programs, orphanages, AIDS hospices, urban youth ministries, summer camps, and long-term Christian service programs in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Africa, Canada and throughout the USA.   For more information about these ventures and about Dr. Campolo himself, visit the EAPE web site at www.tonycampolo.org.

 

Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, Gilead, the story of an elderly preacher in Iowa who, fearing his imminent death, sets down to write his “begats” to his young son.

 

Housekeeping, Robinson’s first novel, was published in 1980 to widespread acclaim and earned Robinson a devout following. Also nominated for the Pulitzer, Housekeeping won the PEN/Faulkner Award and is considered a modern classic. Since 1989, Robinson has been a permanent member of the faculty at the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where, in addition to teaching fiction writing, Robinson teaches courses on the Old and New Testament; Moby Dick; Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson; and one on William Faulkner. Over the twenty-four year interim between the publication of her two novels, Robinson wrote two works of nonfiction: Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989) and The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998), a collection of invigorating disquisitions that include fresh considerations of John Calvin and the Puritans.  Most recently, her essays and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times Book Review, and the New York Review of Books. To view some reviews of this title, please go to: http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/gilead/

 

Wilson Yates
Reverend Dr. Wilson Yates is president emeritus of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities as well as professor emeritus of religion, society and the arts.   Ordained in the United Methodist Church, he holds dual standing in the United Church of Christ. 

In 1998 he founded the journal, ARTS (Arts in Religion and Theological Studies), and continues to serve as its senior editor.  Reverend Dr. Yates has written extensively on the arts in theological education.  Most recently he co-edited Arts, Theology, and the Church, New Intersections, with Kimberly Vrudny (Pilgrim Press, 2005).  He is the current president of the new national Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies.

 

Senator Susan M. Collins

Susan M. Collins was elected to represent the State of Maine in the United States Senate in 1996 and was re-elected to a second term in 2002.  She was the 15th woman in history to be elected to the Senate in her own right.

 

Born December 7, 1952, Senator Collins was raised in Caribou, a small city in northern Maine.  Her family runs a fifth-generation lumber business, founded by her ancestors in 1844 and operated today by two of her brothers.

A 1975 magna cum laude graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Senator Collins worked for former Maine Senator William S. Cohen for 12 years.  In 1987, she joined the cabinet of Maine Governor John R. McKernan as Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation, a position she held for five years.  She then served as New England Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 1992 to 1993.

In 1994, Senator Collins ran her first campaign for public office and became the first woman in Maine history to receive a major party nomination for governor after winning an eight-way Republican primary in June of 1994.  She lost the general election in the fall. 

In December of 1994, Senator Collins became the founding executive director of the Center for Family Business at Husson College in Bangor, Maine, a position she held until she resigned in 1996 to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Cohen.  She won both a contested Republican primary and a four-way general election later that year.
 

Senator Collins has received many professional and civic honors from groups ranging from the American Diabetes Association to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Association to the National School Boards Association

 

  
 
 

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