Waymarks Opening: 'A Feast in the Wilderness' to Feature Lecture, Concert and More
Rev. Paul Kollman, C.S.C., left, associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, is the keynote lecturer at Waymarks Opening: A Feast in the Wilderness. Devotional folk act Paul, Terrell and Farrin, right, will perform a free concert. The event begins with Father Kollman's lecture at 10 a.m. Sunday, March 8, at the Ann and Leo Moskovitz Theater inside the DeNaples Center. The concert begins at 2:15 p.m., also at the Moskovitz Theater.The University of Scranton invites the public to campus on Sunday, March 8, for Waymarks Opening: A Feast in the Wilderness. It is the inaugural celebration of Waymarks Toward Reunion, a yearlong program in sacred art and theology funded by the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life and Faith.
Structured as a four-movement day, the event begins at 10 a.m. with a keynote lecture by Rev. Paul Kollman, C.S.C., associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. Father Kollman, a theologian and scholar of world Christianity, will explore how beauty guides us toward freedom and reunion with God.
Father Kollman, the author of “The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa” and numerous other publications, has served as executive director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Social Concerns, president of the American Society of Missiology and president of the International Association of Mission Studies.
The lecture will be held at the Ann and Leo Moskovitz Theater inside the DeNaples Center. It is free and open to the public.
Following Father Kollman's lecture and beginning at 12 p.m. is a shared feast by invitation. The meal, also at the DeNaples Center, is offered as an act of hospitality and celebration.
The afternoon features a live concert by Paul, Terrell and Farrin, a devotional folk music trio from Sufism Reoriented. The concert will be held from 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. at the Moskovitz Theater.
The day will conclude with an evening Mass, beginning at 4:30 p.m., inside the Madonna della Strada Chapel on campus. All are welcome.
Waymarks Toward Reunion is rooted in the conviction that beauty is not merely ornament but a path — a waymark in the wilderness that points toward God's life, light and love. This opening day embodies that vision: an invitation to gather across differences and follow the road of the heart's desire together. Three of the four movements of the event are free and open to the public.
The project is anchored in a Jesuit-Franciscan partnership between The University of Scranton and Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, with the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, D.C., as artistic home.
For information, please email program director Patrick Beldio, MFA, Ph.D., sculptor, comparative theologian, and visiting assistant professor at The University of Scranton at patrick.beldio@scranton.edu.
