Healing Symposium slated
It will be held at the church located at 309 Franklin Rd., Brentwood.
Cost for the event is $20 per person with pre-registration before Feb. 15. This fee includes a box lunch at the 12:15 p.m. lunch break at the church. Any registration after that date, or at the door, will be $20, and will not include a box lunch.
The Symposium will bring together noted speakers from the medical, religious and academic communities to examine the latest in scientific research and religious thought on faith and healing. Does the scientific and medical community have evidence that faith, prayer, belief in God, spirituality, religion, religious commitment and medicine combine to real the human mind, body and spirit?
Mark Houston MD, FACP, director of The Hypertension Institute at St. Thomas Hospital, Nashville, and associate clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School, emphasizes, speaking from the physician’s point of view, “The spiritual health of every human profoundly affects physical and mental well-being. A wise healer uses that which works. The ‘Healing Trinity:’ God, Patient, Physician, brings power, blessing, hope and love to the healing process. Ultimate healing lies within the grasp of all of us.”
Dr. Houston will begin the first session Saturday at 8:45 a.m., on “Spiritual Truth Equals Scientific Truth: Genesis, Creation Cosmology, Einstein and Astrophysics.” He will speak in the afternoon at 2:15 p.m. on “The Physiology of Health and Illness and Clinical Studies on the Role of Prayer, Faith, Religion and Medicine in Healing.”
J. Howard Olds, D. Min., senior pastor at the Brentwood church, will speak from 10 to 10:45 a.m. on “God and Suffering” and from 11:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., on “A Story of Healing.”
From 11 to 11:45 a.m., Amy-Jill “A-J” Levine, Ph.D., E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter professor of New Testament Studies and director of the Carpenter Program on Religion, Gender and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, will present “Healing in the New Testament.”
Rabbi Ken Kanter of Congregation Micah of Nashville and Jewish Chautauqua Society adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will delve into “Healing in the Hebrew Scriptures” from 1:15 to 2 p.m.
During the Break-out Sessions from 4:15 to 5 p.m. the Rev. Carol Cavin-Dillon, M. Div., will substitute for Dr. Levine as she joins the other presenters in the discussion on “Healing in the New Testament.”
No childcare will be available for this event. To register, call 615-373-3663.