Writing Colloquium
“The Ministry of Writing” colloquium was endowed by individuals in honor of Tom Mullen at the time of his retirement as Dean of Earlham School of Religion in 1990.
Tom retired from ESR in 1997 and passed away June 19, 2009. His “Writing for the Religious Market” class, first offered over 20 years ago, was the beginning of ESR’s unique emphasis in the ministry of writing. This colloquium is one way the school demonstrates its commitment to the written word as an important form of ministry.
| Conference Keynote Address | Keynote Speaker | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Love & Revelation: Songs and Stories from the Heartland | Over the Rhine & Sister Simone Campbell | 2019 |
| From Inside Out: Healing Ourselves, Building Our Communities | Carol Howard Merritt | 2018 |
| Incarnation and Provocation: Toward New Languages of Faith | Barbara Brown Taylor | 2017 |
| Eye of the Beholder | Patricia Raybon | 2016 |
| Words Made Flesh: Creative Writing, Creative Ministry | Scott Holland | 2015 |
| Writing and the Nonviolent Life | Fr. John Dear | 2014 |
| Writing Through Failure | Jana Riess | 2013 |
| The Scripture of Snail and Fern | Sharman Apt Russell | 2012 |
| The Poem in Progress: A Way of Knowing | Scott Cairns | 2011 |
| Spirituality and the Arts | Carrie Newcomer | 2010 |
| Writing as Ruin, Relic, and Resurrection | Julia Kasdorf | 2009 |
| Robert Wicks | 2008 | |
| Haven Kimmel | 2007 | |
| Robert Olen Butler & Elizabeth Dewberry | 2006 | |
| Lauren Winner and Diane Glancy | 2005 | |
| Li-Young Lee | 2004 | |
| Scott Russell Sanders | 2003 | |
| Phil Gulley | 2002 | |
| Elizabeth Cox | 2001 | |
| Donna Jo Napoli | 2000 | |
| Will D. Campbell | 1999 |