By Rev. Mike Ruffin
âYour word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.â (Psalms 119:105)
Several years ago, my wife and I stumbled into a gallery while shopping. It was a gallery unlike any weâd ever seen.
If you havenât taken a trip to one of Thomas Kinkadeâs galleries, itâs a must. Every picture hanging on the wall literally glows. For example, neighborhood scenes show light-filled houses that look as if the light inside is real.
The truth is the light is real, at least according to the late Kinkade. He once was quoted in Guidepost saying, âLight exists in the dimension of the spirit. It was what God first created and is probably the most consistent metaphor in all of Scripture. Truth is represented as light, and in Matthew 5:16, Christ affirms that each of us should âLet your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heavenâ. But light is something you canâ
in the Life of Gospel Foremother Lucie E. Campbell
Dr. Alisha Lola Jones [BIO]
Assistant Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
Tuesday, March 2 - 3:30 pm CST
Closing Address
Dr. Mellonee V. Burnim [BIO]
Professor Emerita, Ethnomusicology, Indiana University;
Visiting Professor of Ethnomusicology, Yale University (Spring 2021)
Tuesday, March 9 - 3:30 pm CST
The closing keynote video is not available.
Each year the Pruit Memorial Symposium is made possible by the Pruit Memorial Symposium Endowment that was established in 1996 by Ella Wall Prichard and the late Lev H. Prichard III of Corpus Christi in memory of Helen Pruit Matthews and her brothers, Dr. Lee Tinkle Pruit and William Wall Pruit.