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Spring Meeting
March 21-24, 2012
Salem, Oregon


Wednesday, March 21

Workshop
   Gwynne L. Skinner
   The Constitutionality of Gay Marriage
   
  9–10, 10:30–11:30 a.m.

Workshop
   Alan Brownstein
   Strangers in a Strange Land
    The Struggle to Reconcile Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage

     1–2, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 22

Workshop
   John Shelby Spong
  
Shifting the Christian Paradigm from Salvation and Atonement to Life and Wholeness
     9–10, 10:30–11:30 a.m., 1–2, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Reception
     4–6 p.m.

Friday, March 23

Workshop
   L. Michael White
  
The Bible and the “H-Word”
      Lost in Translation
     9–10, 10:30–11:30 a.m.

Workshop
   Stephen J. Patterson
  
Men Who Become Women and Women Who Become Men
      The Gender-Bending Jesus Movement
     1–2, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Interview
  
A Conversation with Jack Spong about Marriage, Family, Sexuality
     7:30–9 p.m.

Saturday, March 24

Westar Fellows on the Legacy of John Shelby Spong
   9–10, 10:30–11:30 a.m. 

Workshop
   Deborah Krause
  
“Call no one your father”
      Bible Family Values 101
     1–2, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

Social
   6–7 p.m

Banquet
   7–10 p.m.

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