Reclaiming Vacation Bible School for Adults
WHY SHOULD THE KIDS GET ALL THE FUN?
Adult VBS
Just because we can drive, vote and pay taxes doesn't mean we can't have a bunch of fun learning about the Bible. After all, it is full of Adult content :)
June 30 & July 2
in partnership with w/ Watershed & Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC
How to read the Bible & still be a Christian
Questions, doubts, and friends are welcome :)
BIBLE TIME
CRAFT TIME
GAME TIME
SILLY SONGS
(w/ motions)
the God-Pods
Adult VBS is being hosted by two of your favorite God-Pods, Homebrewed Christianity & the Bible for Normal People. With tens of millions of downloads and over 1700 podcast episodes between them, these online providers of fun and thought provoking conversations about faith, God, and the Bible are partnering to bring the fun from your ear buds to an in-person summer camp.
The VBS Team
Leah Robinson
Pfeiffer University
Rev. Dr. Leah E. Robinson is Associate Professor of Religion and Practical Theology in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has previously served as Lecturer in Practical and Pastoral Theology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland as well as Lecturer in Practical Theology and Peacebuilding at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. You won't want to miss her new book, Bad Theology
Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
Campbell University
Dr. Bashaw is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry. Her research interests include Gospels studies, the work of Rene Girard, Biblical Hermeneutics, Homiletics, Spiritual Formation, and Religion and Pop Culture. Her recent academic contributions include work on Girard and dystopian literature, empathetic imagination in preaching, and characterization in the Gospels. She is passionate about ministering in the church and has served as Children’s minister, Youth minister, and Associate Pastor in various Baptist churches over the last fifteen years. Dr. Bashaw is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches, USA.
Peter Enns
Eastern University
Dr. Peter Enns (PhD, Harvard University) is Abram S. Clemens professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University, St. Davids, PA. He has taught courses at several other institutions including Harvard University, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Enns is a frequent contributor to journals and encyclopedias, and is the author of several books, including, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming & The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It.
Tripp Fuller
Luther Theological Seminary
Tripp just moved back to North Carolina after three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theology & Science at the University of Edinburgh. He recently released Divine Self-Investment: a Constructive Open and Relational Christology, the first book in the Studies in Open and Relational Theology series. For over 14 years Tripp has been doing the Homebrewed Christianity podcast (think on-demand internet radio) where he interviews different scholars about their work so you can get nerdy in traffic, on the treadmill, or doing the dishes. Last year it had over 4 million downloads. It also inspired a book series with Fortress Press called the Homebrewed Christianity Guides to... topics like God, Jesus, Spirit, Church History, etc. Tripp is a very committed and (some of his friends think overly ) engaged Lakers fan and takes Star Wars and Lord of the Rings very seriously.
Anna Sieges
Garner-Webb University
Anna Sieges holds a Ph.D. in Biblical Literature from Baylor University. She teaches all manner of Bible things at Gardner-Webb University where she enjoys engaging with students on biblical interpretation, and curiosities that arise when reading and studying. You can also catch Dr. Sieges' work in short videos, blogs, podcasts, etc. on The Bible for Normal People. Dr. Sieges specializes in the prophetic literature of the Book of the Twelve (Minor Prophets). She enjoys rom-coms, Mexican food, and not taking herself too seriously.
John Dominic Crossan
Professor Emeritus DePaul University
John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-American biblical scholar with two-year post-doctoral diplomas in exegesis from Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and in archeology from Jerusalem’s École Biblique. He has been a mendicant friar and a catholic priest, a Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a President of the Society of Biblical Literature. His focus, whether scholarly or popular, whether in books, videos, or lectures, is on the historical Jesus as the norm and criterion for the entire Christian Bible. His reconstructed Jesus incarnates nonviolent resistance to the Romanization of his Jewish homeland and the Herodian commercialization of his Galilean lake as present program and future hope of a transformed world and transfigured earth. Crossan’s method is to situate biblical texts within the reconstructed matrix of their own their own genre and purpose, their own time and place, and to hear them accurately for then before accepting or rejecting them for now.
Sunday Options
We invite you to join our partner churches for worship. They will both have one of our Bible nerds rocking the pulpit during the service.
Where is VBS happening?
Watershed Charlotte
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2101 Shenandoah Ave, Charlotte, NC 28205
Watershed is a progressive, non-denominational, post-evangelical church located near theheart of Charlotte, North Carolina. While initially planted as a fairly straightforward, urban evangelical church over 17 years ago, Watershed has evolved over the years in both beliefs and practices to become the still-journeying faith community it is today.
Concerned Onlookers
"Once I get done telling the Pope he's not Christian, I am coming after Pete Enns."
- Public Scholar & Daddy
"If Tripp was one of my church planters, I would jump-kick him in the throat."
- Snowflake Preacher
with a Temper
"What is this? A coalition of questioners? They need some Spirit penetration. "
- Reported Author of a book on Biblical Sex