STH Conference for the Creative: Romancing the Cross

Can your creative output be inhabited by God in such a way that you and your audience encounter Him through your work?

Whether you write poems or music, create paintings or web pages, design gardens or buildings—strengthen the infrastructure of a city or the infrastructure of the human soul—if you long for beauty in your life and your work, this conference is for you.

Find others who hunger for something more in life!        Register here

Conference Speakers

Key Speaker: Anette Graves

Annette Graves is professor of English at Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida. She holds a BA With Honors in Religion and an MA in English from the University of Iowa, a Doctor of Education from the University of West Florida, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Liberty University. In addition, she holds a Graduate Certificate in Apologetics from Evangelical Seminary.  The desire of her life is to know Christ, the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings and to stir that desire in others.

Speaker: Anitha Risberg

Anitha Risberg is MD. in physiology and senior lecturer at STH as well at Lulea technical university. She is also a writer and has created a pedagogical method called Cor-pedagogy in which creativity is an important part. An other subject she have been teaching in an written about is stress, performance and recovery. She lifts up the importance of good relationships and the relationship with the Christ and long to see people free and in their full potential. She and Annette works with a project of imagination in teaching and learning as well as theology.

Speaker: Anders Gerdmar

Professor Anders Gerdmar is founder and president of Scandinavian School of Theology, Uppsala, Sweden, Associate Professor in New Testament Studies at Uppsala University and professor at Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, USA. A New Testament scholar, the focus of his research is biblical interpretation and antisemitism. His main works in this connection is Roots of theological anti-Semitism, Brill 2009 and Salvation is from the Jews (forthcoming).

Worship: Rebecca Ekerby

Rebecca Ekerby is a singer/songwriter and worship leader from Ostersund, who dreams of reaching out with her music outside the church walls. After previously releasing a number of singles, this year she released her first album ”If I listen carefully”. The music reflects her simple relationship with God.