For lovers of words and God...

Purposely situated in Bluefield, West Virginia, HopeWords Writers' Conference wants to equip and encourage you to tell stories of hope. Once a thriving industrial center, Bluefield's own story is one of boom and bust and of slowly rebuilding; the city embodies that gritty hope we all long for.

Born out of this same impulse, HopeWords calls readers, writers, and thinkers to gather among her fog-topped mountains for a weekend of imagining the work of New Creation. Because of this, the conference is intentionally intimate and spare, believing renewal happens in quiet, steady ways.

Speakers

Dr. Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including two memoirs, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art; Every Riven Thing, winner of Ambassador Book Award; Once in the West, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Survival is a Style- all published by FSG. He teaches religion and literature at Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.

Dr. Craig Keener did his Ph.D work in New Testament Origins at Duke University and is known for his work as a New Testament scholar on Bible background (commentaries on the New Testament in its early Jewish and Greco-Roman settings). Well over a million of his thirty-plus books are in circulation and have won thirteen national and international awards.

His award winning, popular-level IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament (now in its second edition [2014], and available in a number of languages) has sold over half a million copies.

Craig is married to Médine Moussounga Keener, who holds a Ph.D. from University of Paris 7. She was a refugee for 18 months in her nation of Congo, and together Craig and Médine work for ethnic reconciliation in the U.S. and Africa. Craig is ordained by the National Baptist Convention, an African-American denomination, and for roughly a decade was one of the associate ministers at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Craig and Médine’s story together is Impossible Love: The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles, and Hope Against All Odds (Chosen Books, 2016).

These authors and some of your HopeWords favorites (and MORE TO COME)!

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The Granada Theater
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537 Commerce St, Bluefield, WV, 24701 US
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