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  Ames United Church of Christ

Theologian-in-residence 2025
Ames united Church of Christ

Recordings from the 2025 Theologian-in-Residence Program, featuring the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
"Democracy According to Jazz" Speech at Iowa State Memorial Union -- Thursday, October 23rd

Saturday Theologian-in-Residence Session -- Saturday, October 25th
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Sermon during Sunday Morning Worship Service -- Sunday, October 26th​
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2025 Theologian-In-Residence  - Rev. Otis Moss III
​Ames United Church of Christ was pleased to welcome the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III to our church for a weekend of incredibly thoughtful discussion from Thursday, October 23rd to Sunday, October 26th. The Senior Pastor at Chicago Trinity United Church of Christ and one of the country's most renowned and beloved spiritual and civil rights leaders, the Reverend Otis Moss III was our 40th Theologian-in-Residence here at Ames United Church of Christ. 

He is also the author of "Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times."



Schedule of Events
​October 23rd:
Democracy According to
Jazz. Public lecture,
Iowa State University
Memorial Union, 6 p.m.
 
October 24th:
Continuing Education session for Clergy at Grinnell IA UCC
 
October 25th:
Spiritual Lessons for
Thriving in Turbulent Times. Ames UCC church,  9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
**Morning session will also be
     available via Zoom
 
October 26th:
Question & Answer Session, 9 a.m.
 
Preaching at Ames UCC, 10 a.m.
 


Previous Theologians in Residence

Year
2025
​2024
2023
2022
​2021
​2020
​2019
2018
2017
​2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
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1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
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1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1985
​1984
Theologian
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Rev. John Pavlovitz
Rev. Dr. Miguel De La Torre
Rev. Brooks Berndt
Karen L. King
Not Held Due to Covid-19
David Vasquez-Levy
Dave Csinos
Harry T. Cook
Barry Lynn
Ruth Duck & Cynthia Wilson
Phyllis Tickle
Gary Dorrien
Marva Dawn
Ingrid Mattson
Peter Sawtell
Walter Brueggemann
Diana Butler Bass
Randall Balmer
Christine M. Smith
Amy Jill Levine
Norman Jackson
Dale Bishop
Doug Adams
John Shelby Spong
John Dominic Crossan
Karen Jo Torjesen
Tex Sample
​
George A. Drake
Rita Nakashima Brock
Robin Scroggs
Marcus Borg
Donald White
Marty McMane
​& Alan Johnson
Brian Wren
Charles Hambrick-Stowe
John Bolen
Keith G. Schrag
Andre LaCoque
Wilson Yates
Henry Gustafson
Theme
"Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times"
"Finding Courage and Compassion When Cruelty is Trending"
"Confronting the Hopelessness of Immigration"
​"The Faith of Prophets: Lessons for the Climate Crisis"
​"The Challenges of Truth in Our Time"
​Not Held Due to Covid-19
​"Immigration Matters: Joined Together, Finding Solutions"
​"Will our Faith Have Children?"
"God, Christ, and Religious Action: A Challenge to Your Beliefs and Actions"
"God and Government: Are Religious Liberties Crumbling?"
"Stirred by the Spirit: Spirit-filled Worship and Spirit-filled Congregational Singing"
"Being Christian and Church in 21st Century America"
"The Crisis and Necessity of Progressive Theology"
"Worship When God Seems to Be Absent"
"Islam: Rumor and Reality"
"Biblical Faith and Ecological Hope: Rethinking Theology for the Health of Creation"
​"The Good News of Alternative"
"The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church"
"Perspectives on American Evangelicalism"
"Resurrection: Fidelity to Life...in This Life"
"Jesus, Gender, and Judaism"
"Is God's Justice Irrelevant or Central to Our Faith?"
"Building Bridges"
"Bringing to Life the Humor in the Bible"
"A New Christianity for a New World"
"The Historical Jesus and the Birth of Christianity"
"Rethinking Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Early Christianity"
"Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity: Doing Ministry in Oral, Literate, and Electronic Cultures"
"Puritanism"
"Who Do You Say That I Am?"
​"Exploring the Theology of Paul"
"Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time"
"The Church and the Environment: Modernism and Post-Modernism Views"
"Good News"

"The Language of Worship"
"Spiritual Roots and Spiritual Growth"
"Ethics in the Bible" and "Faith Development and the Church"
"Creating a Just Peace in Home and Church"
"The Church and the Environment"
"Art and the Journey of Faith"
​"A New Vision of the New Testament"
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