From AlexanderMen
The 2009 Alexander Men Conference in New York: New Models of Christian Witness, began on August 8 with a full day of sessions--4 speakers to plenary session and 8 workshops in two sessions. Nyack College hosted at its New York City campus in downtown Manhatten. Papers will be posted separately but these photographs, the most of them by Boris Pitel [1], can give a sense of the feeling of the day...not least the joyful interaction of participants
Bishop Seraphim, Drs.Steven Notley and President Michael Scales of Nyack
Rev. Dr Joel Scandrett gave the keynote address on the signigicant convergence of streams of the sacramental, the evangelical, and the charismatic in the churches today
Fr Michael Meerson and physicist Alexei Tsvelik on left,Peter Von Berg, April French from Regent College in British Columbia, Bishop Seraphim and Drs Notley and Scandrett
Karina Cherniak speaks on the prophetic vision of the Church ennunciated by Mother Maria Skobtsova and then by Fr Alexander Men
Nyack associate dean of arts and scientists Dr Fernando Arzola presents his model for a youth ministry, synthesizing the values of the traditional and the socially and prophetically oriented
Andrey Cherniak leads a workshop on Catechesis
Dr. Tsvelik opens out the Anthropic Principle in cosmology in his workshop
Conversations between sessions
Olga Bukhina on the translation work and example of Natalia Trauberg
Again between sessions from left Frank Purcell, Joel Scandrett, Bishop Seraphim, Mark Hershberger and Robert Morris of Interweave Center
Photograph of Fr Men from Sergei Bezsmertny
