 The 2006 Pace-Warren
Lectures
Frances Taylor Gench
October 7-8, 2006
Frances
Taylor Gench is Professor of New Testament at Union Theological
Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond,
Virginia. Prior to joining the Union-PSCE faculty in 1999, she taught for
13 years at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary (Pennsylvania). Frances is a
graduate of Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
(now Union-PSCE; M.Div., Ph.D.).
Dr. Gench was a member of the PCUSA General Assembly’s Theological Task
Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church, and is the author of Back
to the Well: Women’s Encounters with Jesus in the Gospels (WJKP, 2004),
Hebrews and James (Westminster Bible Companion; WJKP, 1996), and two
Horizons Bible Studies for Presbyterian Women.
She resides in Washington, D.C. and attends The New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church, where her husband, Roger J. Gench, is the pastor.
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SCHEDULE
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7
Continental Breakfast
8:30 -9:00 a.m.
Workshop Discussion
9:00 - 12:30 p.m.
“Women in the Biblical World:
Reframing Foremothers in the Faith”
Discussion based on Dr. Gench’s
Book
Back to the Well
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8
Morning Worship Services
8:30 & 11:00 a.m.
Sermon Title “Dirty Laundry”
Forum Discussion
9:40 - 10:50 a.m.
“Peace, Unity, & Purity in the
Presbyterian Church”
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Book Description: Back to the Well
Dr. Gench says in the introduction that Back to the Well “emerges
out of this ever-evolving journey with the Bible, and is written for
those who, like me, are eager to learn more about women in the
biblical world, to engage stories of our foremothers in the faith,
and to reflect on the import of these stories for our own Christian
life and faith. This book is also written for readers who wish to
engage many of the new questions, insights, and perspectives that
feminist biblical scholarship has brought to a reading of these
stories - and who are open to engagement with perspectives from
other quarters as well that may deepen and broaden understanding.”
- “This is a terrific resource for preachers, educators, and
students of the Bible -especially those who hold in tension, as the
author does, a commitment to being both Protestant and feminist.”
- Dr. Nora Tubbs Tisdale, Consulting Theologian, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York
Stories discussed in the book:
- The Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:21-28)
- A Hemorrhaging Woman and Jairus’s Daughter (Mark
5:21-43)
- Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42)
- A Bent Woman, Daughter of Abraham (Luke 13:10-17)
- The Samaritan Woman (John 4: 1-42)
- The Woman Accused of Adultery (John 7:53-8:11)
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Anne Warren (seated) and Associate Pastor Darla Blatnik,
with Pace-Warren lecturer Dr. Frances Taylor Gench
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