Spring Convocation: January 21, 2011
Spring Convocation
William R. Cannon Chapel
Friday, January 21, 2011
11:05 a.m
ENTRANCE Processional for Epiphany Season Maurice Durufle
Timothy E. Albrecht
University Organist and Professor of Church Music
CALL TO WORSHIP David L. Petersen
Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs;
Franklin N. Parker Professor of Old Testament
Arise, shine; for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”
who has shone in our hearts
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ.
HYMN Arise, Your Light Has Come! FESTAL SONG
OPENING COLLECT Dean Petersen
GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTIONS Jan Love
Dean and Professor of Christianity and World Politics
HYMN We Lift Our Hearts to You
The choir will sing stanzas1-4; the assembly will join on stanza 5.
SCRIPTURE READING Deuteronomy 26: 1-11 Dean Love
CONVOCATION ADDRESS “A Wandering Arminian was my Ancestor” Russell E. Richey
William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History
PRAYERS Woodie W. White
Bishop in Residence
HYMN Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies RATISBON
Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ the true the only light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise, triumph o’er the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high, be near; Daystar, in my heart appear.
Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee;
Joyless is the day’s return, till thy mercy’s beams I see;
Till they inward light impart, cheer my eyes and warm my heart.
Visit then this soul of mine; pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
Fill me, Radiancy divine, scatter all my unbelief;
More and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day
Words: Charles Wesley, 1740
BLESSING AND DISMISSAL Dean Love
RETIRING PROCESSIONAL O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright Paul Manz
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Faculty Marshals Rex D. Matthews
Associate Professor in the Practice of Historical Theology
L. Wesley de Souza
Arthur J. Moore Associate Professor in the Practice of Evangelism
Gonfalon Bearer Tim Moore
President, Candler Coordinating Council
Russell E. Richey, William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Church History and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, serves as general editor of the Methodist Review, on the Episcopal Church and United Methodist Church Dialogue, as Vice-President of the Wesley Works Editorial Project, on the UMC’s Committee on Faith and Order, and on the editorial advisory board of the on-line Journal of Southern Religion. His most recent books are Marks of Methodism: Practices of Ecclesiology (2005), Mr. Wesley's True Heirs: Extension Ministers (2008), Doctrine in Experience: A Methodist Theology of Church and Ministry (2009), Methodist Connectionalism: Historical Perspectives (2010) and The Methodist Experience in America: A History (2010). From 2000 to 2006, he served as Candler’s Dean. He and Merle are the proud parents of two and grandparents of three.