Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/24/2025 - 04/25/2025All Day
Celebrate Eden’s 175th Anniversary
Lectures & Panels, Class Reunions and Fellowship
Support, Encouragement, Renewal, and Challenge
Convocation Theme: Constructing Communities of Resistance: Complex Identities in Biblical and Historical Interpretation
2025 Spring Convocation April 24th – 25th
On Eden’s campus at 475 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis, MO 63119 with presentation events also available online via Zoom.
Documentation for Continuing Education Units Will Be Provided
Presenters:
Rev. Dr. Raquel Lettsome
Professor of New Testament and Womanist Biblical Interpretation
Dr. Henry Kuo
Assoc. Professor of Church Histories and Historical Theology
Charges:
*$35 February 5- April 20 ($50 for late registration April 21-25 )
*$25 additional for EBAA Breakfast, Friday, April 25. Register separately here.
Register before Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Questions? Please contact us at [email protected] or (314) 918-2691
Thursday, April 24
- 12-1:30 PM: Lunch with Program and Book Signings,
Schroer Commons & Online- Introduction to new Partnership Opportunities for Congregations and Organizations.
- 1:30-2 PM: Free Time. Enjoy the Campus and Book Store.
- Online spaces open for fellowship.
- 2-4 PM: Herbster Event for Continuing Education & Support- All are Invited
Press Hall & Online- Graduates of 2020 – 2024, you are special participants in this event. Travel Scholarship is available to support your attendance.
- Graduates of 2020 – 2024, you are special participants in this event. Travel Scholarship is available to support your attendance.
- 4-4:30 PM: Admissions “Imagine Eden” Campus Tour
Register separately here - 4:15-6:15 PM: 175th Anniversary Celebration Reception,
Schroer Commons & Online- Celebrate Eden’s impact in the church and world for 175 years and presence on Webster Groves Campus for 100 years.
- Join us for heavy appetizers, presentations, conversation, and celebration!
- Special celebrations for 50th anniversary class, class reunions through the decades, families with graduates from all three Eden campuses, visions for the future.
- 6:30 PM: Worship (with Senior Preacher), Wehrli Chapel in Press Hall & Online
- Award Presentations: Samuel D. Press Service Award and Reinhold Niebuhr Award.
- 7 PM: Presentation and Panel One, Wehrli Chapel in Press Hall & Online
- 8:30 PM: Reception for All, Luhr Reading Room, Press Hall
Friday, April 25
- 7:30 AM: EBAA-Coordinated Breakfast and Worship – All are Invited
Register separately here. - 9:15 AM: Presentation and Panel Two, Wehrli Chapel in Press Hall & Online
- 12:00 PM: Lunch and Conversation, Schroer Commons
- 1:00 PM: Admissions “Imagine Eden” Campus Tour
Register separately here