EfM 50th Anniversary Celebration: Full Schedule

EfM: 50 Years of Engaging, Responding, and Reflecting
Thursday, June 5 - Sunday, June 8, 2025

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9:00am CDT

Celebration Keynote: Becoming the Jesus Movement in a Fractured World

Friday June 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am CDT

The Reverend Canon Stephanie Spellers Canon Stephanie Spellers is excited to celebrate our anniversary with this keynote on how we can form Jesus-centered beloved communities that spread from EfM seminars to our congregations to the wider world. Get ready to be inspired and encouraged for the road ahead!

Speakers

The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers

Clergy, St. Bart's New York City

The Rev. Canon Dr. Stephanie Spellers is one of the Episcopal Church’s leading thinkers around 21st-century ministry and mission. The author of The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline and New Hope for Beloved Community and Radical Welcome: Embracing God, The Other and the Spirit... Read More →

Friday June 6, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am CDT
Upper Cravens 435 Kentucky Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375

Plenary, Core Practice - Living in Community

2:00pm CDT

The 5th Curriculum Revision

Friday June 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT

Upper Cravens

Trainer and Mentor Jennifer Wickham facilitates a discussion with members of the Curriculum Revision Task Force. Their presentation will introduce EfM's updated curriculum, debuting in Fall 2025.

Moderator: Jennifer Wickham
Year 1 Focus Lead: Sandra Squires
Year 2 Focus Lead: Liza Page Nelson
Year 3 Focus Lead: Joy Rogers
Year 4 Focus Lead: Rick Brewer
Year 4 Focus Lead: Angela Hock Brewer
Wide Angle Focus Lead: Jenny Puri Beaumont
Respond and Reflect Focus Lead: Karen Byers
Community Gathering Focus Lead: Joshua Booher

Speakers

Jennifer Tyndall Wickham

Mentor, Trainer

Friday June 6, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
Upper Cravens 435 Kentucky Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375

Plenary, Core Practice - Study of Christian Tradition

5:30pm CDT

Dinner

Friday June 6, 2025 5:30pm - 6:45pm CDT

Upper Cravens

Friday June 6, 2025 5:30pm - 6:45pm CDT
Upper Cravens 435 Kentucky Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375

Meal

7:30pm CDT

Concert with Lilli Lewis

Friday June 6, 2025 7:30pm - 9:30pm CDT

Upper Cravens

As the story goes, Lilli Lewis should never have been. Before she was born, Lewis’ mother was told her baby probably wouldn’t survive due to lung trouble, so the fact that Lewis now makes a living singing with those same lungs is a gift she never takes for granted. Lewis uses her voice to bring what she calls sacred songs into profane spaces, and though she’s abandoned trying to define her sound, she hopes her audiences leave shows knowing two things: that they are brilliant as they are, and that they have the ability to use that brilliance to make a better world.

Trained as an opera singer and classical pianist, Georgia native Lewis has been a composer, producer and performer for over two decades. After carving out space as an African American queer woman of size, Lewis’ career has culminated in her album Americana being a top pick everywhere from NPR’s All Songs Considered to Rolling Stone.

The FolkRockDiva is a musical polyglot who glides easily between folk, roots, country soul, gospel, and jazz, and has integrated New Orleans traditions by singing lead for Dirty Dozen Brass Band founding member Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove. Lewis’ albums include Americana and All is Forgiven.

The Kennedy Center has called her: “A powerhouse performer adding her unique voice and talent to the national discussion of the state of social justice in America.”

Speakers

Lilli Lewis

Folk Rock Diva of New Orleans

Athens, Georgia native turned New Orleans Folk Rock Diva Lilli Lewis is a voice for the voiceless in Americana, her third full album for Louisiana Red Hot Records, lauded by NPR, Rolling Stone, Offbeat Magazine and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Trained as an opera singer and classical... Read More →

Friday June 6, 2025 7:30pm - 9:30pm CDT
Upper Cravens 435 Kentucky Ave, Sewanee, TN 37375

Concert, Core Practice - Living in Community

EfM 50th Anniversary Celebration

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