These are events I am recommending to my students at Samford University. Other people may be interested in them as well.

2024

For a list of past recommended events, click here.

Feb. 11, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., Cathedral Church of the Advent, Worship services with James O’Donnell, former organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey as guest conductor. The 9 a.m. service is Holy Communion, the 11 a.m. service is a special service of Choral Matins. The cathedral is located at  2017 6th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham.

Feb. 11, 2 p.m., St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, a Festival of Hymnody led by Michael Smith, Samford alumnus, graduate of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and organist and choirmaster at Saint Thomas’ Episcopal Church Whitemarsh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Feb. 12, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., Hodges Chapel, A Visit with Bart Barber, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Extra Credit for Bains’s BREL 350.

Feb. 13, 7 p.m., Wright Center, Katharine Hayhoe on a Christians and Climate Change, J. Roderick Davis Lecture. Free registration required here. Extra Credit for all Bains’s classes. Convo Credit.

Feb. 22, 10 a.m., Reid Chapel, “Trends in World Christianity: 1900–2050,” Dr. Gina Zurlo co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Ray Frank Robbins Lecture. Extra Credit for Bains’s BREL 201 and BREL 350 classes. Convo Credit.

Feb. 22, 3 p.m., Brock Forum, “Women in World Christianity: Facts, Figures, Challenges, and Opportunities,” Dr. Gina Zurlo. Ray Frank Robbins Lecture. Extra credit for Bains’s BREL 201 and BREL 350 classes. Convo Credit.

Feb. 23, 3:15 p.m. to 9 p.m. (various events you may attend in this time). Cathedral of St. Paul, The Skull of St. Jean de Brebeuf, S. J. Relic Tour, Stations of the Cross at 5:30 p.m., Life of Brebeuf at 7 p.m. Relic veneration other times.

March 14, 10 a.m., Reid Chapel, “Believers: Why the First Christians’ Religion was Strange, Dangerous—and Attractive” by Nijay K. Gupta, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary. Convo credit and extra credit for Extra credit for Bains’s BREL 201 and BREL 350 classes. Convo Credit.

March 14, 3 p.m., Brock Forum, “A Household of Faith: The Family Practices of the Early Christians” by Nijay K. Gupta, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary. Convo credit and extra credit for Extra credit for Bains’s BREL 201 and BREL 350 classes. Convo Credit.

March 20 & 21, 11 a.m. to 12 noon, Hodges Chapel, Biblical Studies Lectures by Susan Eastman, associate research professor emerita of the New Testament at Duke Divinity School

March 21, 10 a.m., Reid Chapel, “Sermonic Eschatonics: Begin with the End in Mind,” Dr. Robert Smith, Charles T. Carter Baptist Professor of Divinity. Dotson T. Nelson Lectures. Convo Credit.

March 21, 3 p.m., Reid Chapel, “Sermonic Eschatonics: Begin with the End in Mind,” Dr. Robert Smith, Charles T. Carter Baptist Professor of Divinity. Dotson T. Nelson Lectures. Convo Credit.

March 22, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Divinity N101, “Learning from our Church Mothers” a luncheon workshop with Dr. Stefana Laing. Registration required here.

April 10, Global Center, Divinity S121, “World Christianity Focus Week Global Voices: Theology and the Global Church,” Rev. Dr. Timothy C. Tennent, president and professor of world Christianity at Asbury Theological Seminary. Registration required here.