Selected Schedule

The Group of Unknowing, book club studying The Cloud of Unknowing, Marietta, Georgia, summer 2009-present. See The Group of Unknowing on Facebook.

Samford University’s Live@the Library homecoming event. Keynote speaker, “Coming Home to Christ,” Saturday, November 7, 2009.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville Spring Veritas Forum. Keynote speaker, “Benedict of Nursia, Gregory the Great, and Hagiography,” February 18-19, 2010.

Cultural Awareness Program lecture series, Emmanuel College. Keynote speaker, “Life Lessons from Wise Christians: Ælfric of Eynsham, the Cloud’s Anonymous, Catherine of Siena, Clare of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, and Others,” PowerPoint lecture, 2:00 p.m., Monday, March 1, 2010.

Emmanuel College lectures for the 9:00 a.m. Christian Thought and History class and for the 10:00 a.m. Advanced Composition class, Monday, March 1, 2010.

Franciscan Retreat Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Leading three-day Christian prayer retreat discussing/experiencing Cloud of Unknowing, Christian contemplative prayer, and lectio divina, April 16-18, 2010.

Georgia Writers Association (GWA) Writers Workshop, “Good Writing Is Editing,” on Saturday, August 14, 2010, at Kennesaw State University.

Fourth Annual Jane Baird Lecture at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at the Cathedral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, Georgia.

InterVarsity/Veritas Forum team presentation with author Phyllis Tickle at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. “Fixed-Hour Prayer and Contemplative Prayer,” March 2-4, 2011.

For a complete list of speaking events, please e-mail Dr. Butcher.