Please join us for our Annual Bible Symposium with The Rev. Dr. James Haddix and his presentation, “Seeing & Knowing: Isaiah's Visions of Sight, Sense, and Sound in Shifting Times.”
Tickets are $35. You may purchase them at the door by cash, check or charge.
The deadline to receive lunch with your ticket has passed. You are welcome to bring a lunch.
Schedule:
Registration begins at 9:00 AM
9:30-10.45: Introductions and First Talk
10:45-11:15: Break
11:15-11:45: Second Talk
11:45-12:30: Lunch
12:30-1:30: Third Talk, Questions and Discussion
Biography
James L. Haddix, a graduate of Boston University School of Theology (Th.M. and named a Frank Howard Fellow), was ordained to Christian Ministry in 1971. He retired from parish ministry in 2016, having served two congregations. His Ph.D. (Boston University) is in Historical and Textual Studies. Vocationally a Pastor, he has also been a Teacher for and in the Church and church-related institutions. He was adjunct professor of Old Testament at Bangor Theological Seminary (1991-2013), and now serves on the continuing faculty of Grace Evangelical Seminary. A member of the National Pastor Theologian Program at The Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ, he has been Moderator and Convener of the Greater Bangor Pastor Theologian Project since 2004. In 2007, he was Pastor-Theologian-In-Residence at The Center of Theological Inquiry, served on its research panel and steering committee for the Pastor Theologian program, and was a contributor to The Power to Comprehend With All The Saints, Eerdmans Press, Wallace Alston and Cindy Jarvis, eds., 2009. He has served many educational and community institutions and has focused, too, on interfaith and ecumenical ventures. He was a member of the Judaic Studies Program advisory committee at the University of Maine [2008-2016]. He was a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician and held a certificate from the Drug Dependence Institute, [Yale University School of Medicine and Psychiatry, 1972]. He was President of The Congregational-Christian Historical Society [Boston, MA, 1989-2000] and a member of Confessing Christ as Lord and Savior, a consortium of clergy and laity urging renewal of theological integrity and faithfulness to Jesus Christ. He was President of the New England Pastors Study Conference and a founding member of the New England Council for Theological Education. Most recently (2014-present) he is a Street Pastor and on the steering committee of the Bangor Street Pastor ministry, and (2015-present) works with Overseed, dedicated to revitalizing churches in New England. He serves on the Spiritual Life Advisory Committee at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center [1990-present] and is President of the Board of Sarah’s House, a cancer hospitality house for persons facing cancer treatment. He plays saxophone in a dance band and with a Klezmer band.