{"id":55209,"date":"2022-09-01T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/?p=55209"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:47:04","slug":"you-are-invited-from-nowhere-to-now-here-christensen-symposium-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/2022\/09\/01\/you-are-invited-from-nowhere-to-now-here-christensen-symposium-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"You are invited: &#8220;From Nowhere to Now Here&#8221; Christensen Symposium 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-55210 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Jeremy Myers in front of a group of people in the chapel teaching. \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/ccv\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/08\/Christensen-Symposium-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>FROM NOWHERE TO NOW HERE<\/h2>\n<p>Jeremy Myers, PhD,\u00a0Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation, Augsburg University<\/p>\n<p>Join us for this year&#8217;s Christensen Symposium where we will dig deeper into the topics of vocation and public church.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, September 22<br \/>\n11 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Foss Center, Hoversten Chapel<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic, rampant racism, unfettered injustices, environmental degradation, inflation \u2013 these are a few sources of the overwhelming sense of despair in our lives. We are anxious about our future. We desperately seek meaning, purpose, justice, and the common good but they seem to be nowhere in sight. Nowhere. But there is hope and potential for change if we can focus on the here and now. All we are promised is the here\u00a0and now, and it is where we are called to live our lives. Now. Here.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jeremy Myers is the Bernhard M. Christensen Professor of Religion and Vocation and the Executive Director of the Christensen Center for Vocation at Augsburg University.\u00a0Myers earned his bachelor\u2019s degree at the University of Minnesota and his master\u2019s and PhD from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He researches, writes, teaches, and organizes around the topics of vocation and public church. In addition to many articles and chapters, he is the author of\u00a0Liberating Youth from Adolescence\u00a0published by Fortress Press and is also a sought-after speaker. He has secured millions of dollars in grants to support the work of the Christensen Center for Vocation at Augsburg.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FROM NOWHERE TO NOW HERE Jeremy Myers, PhD,\u00a0Bernhard M. 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