Projects, Teaching, Keynote Addresses, and Workshops
Michael G. Bausch
2023
- Ministry Associate at Middleton Community Church, UCC, preaching monthly with visual arts on worship screens, and learning how to generate and incorporate computer-generated art forms.
- Experiencing Zoom and Streaming Worship with various congregations and finding ways to offer more visual arts using those platforms during the pandemic. Revising and updating Feeding Imaginations: Worship That Engages
- Offering ways to use visuals in streaming worship services and online educational experiences: updated thoughts at screenpreaching.blogspot.com
- Interim Minister at McFarland United Church of Christ in McFarland, Wisconsin, just south of Madison. We use two screens for all aspects of worship, including preaching. Lay leaders have streamlined the visual technology to make it user friendly. We welcome inquiries about the value our visuals add to worship and learning experiences.
- Two book projects were released in October: Saturday Morning and Other Stories, a book of essays and short stories, and Drawn In: Dramatic Encounters With Art, a book focused on my experiences with Italian art in Rome, Florence and Venice, as well as an excursion into Fernando Botero's work (Columbian artist) and another look at James Cameron's global box office film hit Avatar. Both books will be available through Amazon.com.
- My CD of original songs, "You Can't Stop The Music" was released in November. This is available through Amazon.com.
2016
- Instructor: Introduction to New Testament, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
- Art Colloquium, The Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Keynote Speaker and Workshop Leader, American Guild of Organists, Reading, PA "Using Media in Worship" August 15, 2015
- Workshop, "Seeing Your Sanctuary In New Ways" at Wisconsin Conference United Church of Christ Annual Meeting, Green Lake, June 2015
- Workshop, "Preaching With Your Sanctuary Architecture" at the 2015 Earl Lectures and Conference Series at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, January, 2015
- Publication of Feeding Imaginations: Worship That Engages, January 2015
- Research and presentations for writing project "Feeding Imaginations: Worship That Engages" for early 2015 release date
- Guest Lecturer, “Faith and Hollywood Film Clips” at the Graduate Theological Union Center for the Arts, Religion and Education in Berkeley, California with Michael Rhodes, January, 2013.
- Worship Leader and Preacher at Iowa Conference, United Church of Christ, Annual Meeting, June 8
- Adjunct Faculty, Summer Session Class, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, August, 2011
- Workshop for Pacific School of Religion Earl Lectures and Pastoral Conference in January, 2011
- Presentations for Michael Rhodes' Pacific School of Religion course "Preaching and Teaching With Film Clips" at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, January 25-29, 2010
- Adjunct Faculty, Summer Session Class, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, July 2009.
- Online Summer Session Class, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, July 2009
- Telephone Presentation for Michael Rhodes' Pacific School of Religion course "Preaching With Film" in January, 2009.
- Workshop at Stevens Point, WI for the Wisconsin Conference of the United Church of Christ in November, 2008.
- Keynote Address and Workshop for the Missouri Mid-South Conference UCC, September 15-17, 2008
- Workshop for IRMS Educational Conference, Plymouth UCC, Des Moines, August 15-16, 2008
- Lecturer, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, incoming M.Div. online students, August, 2008.
- Online Summer Courses for Pacific School of Religion, summer 2008.
- Week-Long Summer “Kairos” Session at Luther Seminary June 16-20, 2008.
- Adjunct Faculty, Doctor of Ministry Cohort, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2005-2008
- iChat Workshop at Michael Rhodes' Pacific School of Religion course "Preaching With Film" in January, 2008.
- Two Workshops for Pacific School of Religion Earl Lectures and Pastoral Conference in January, 2008.
- Workshop for Evansville (Wisconsin) United Church of Christ in January, 2008.
- Keynote Address and Workshop for the John Calvin Presbytery, Mt. Vernon, Missouri in September, 2007.
- Week-long Summer Session at Vancouver School of Theology in July, 2007
- Two Week-Long Summer Sessions at Pacific School of Religion in July, 2007.
- Preaching With Media at First Congregational Church UCC, Berkeley, CA in July, 2007
- Workshop at Epworth United Methodist Church, Albany, CA in May, 2007.
- Adjunct Faculty, Doctor of Ministry Cohort, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2005-2008.
- Guest Lecturer at Pacific School of Religion in classes with (the late) Dr. Doug Adams and Dr. Boyung Lee in January and April, 2007.
- Workshop at Pacific School of Religion Earl Lectures and Pastoral Conference in January, 2007.
- Workshop at Minneapolis for Presbyterian Communicator's Conference in August, 2006.
- Adjunct Faculty, Summer Session Class, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, July 2006.
- Adjunct Faculty, Doctor of Ministry Cohort, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2005-2008.
- Keynote Address at Rockton, Illinois for the Prairie Association of the United Church of Christ in April, 2006.
- Keynote Address and Workshop at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania for the Kiskiminetas Presbytery, in March, 2006.
- Keynote Address and Workshop at Granite City, Illinois for the Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery, in February, 2006.
- Keynote Address and Workshop at Hershey, Pennsylvania for the Penn Central Conference of the United Church of Christ in January, 2006.
- Adjunct Faculty, Doctor of Ministry Cohort, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2005
- Adjunct Faculty, Summer Session Class, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, July 2005
- United States Representative to the Ecumenical Jury, the Montreal World Film Festival, August 27- September 6, 2004.
- United Theological Seminary Summer Institute of the Arts, New Brighton, Minnesota, June 14-18, 2004
- Adjunct Faculty, Certificate in Ministry and Technology, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2000-2003.
- Keynote Address and Workshop at Rapid City, SD for the South Dakota Conference of the United Church of Christ in September, 2003.
- Plenary Presentation and Workshop at Minneapolis, Minnesota for the United Church of Christ National Musicians Conference in August, 2003.
- Film Clips in Bible Study consultant for national UCC General Synod meeting in Minneapolis in June, 2003.
- Workshop Leader at Created To Praise in St. Louis, June, 2003.
- Worship Leadership at Cleveland, OH for a national United Church of Christ Worship Consultation in April, 2003.
- Keynote Address and Workshop at Worcester, Massachusetts for the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ and Andover Newton Theological Seminary in March, 2003.
- Adjunct Faculty, Certificate in Ministry and Technology, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2000-2003.
- Workshop at Stevens Point, WI for the Wisconsin Conference of the United Church of Christ in June, 2002.
- Earl Preacher and Workshop Leader at the January, 2002 Earl Lectures and Pastoral Conference at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
- Publication of Silver Screen, Sacred Story: Using Multimedia in Worship, 2002.
- Adjunct Faculty, Certificate in Ministry and Technology, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, 2000-2003.
- Workshop at Garrett-Northwestern Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL May, 2001.
- Worship leadership and workshop at UCC national Stewardship meeting, Cleveland, March, 2000.
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Feeding Imaginations: Worship That Engages
Michael G. Bausch Image Source/Fred Noer Publishing, 2015/2022 Feeding Imaginations shows preachers and congregational leaders how to bring more visual arts into worship, not only through the use of projected imagery, but through developing awareness of the architecture of the holy space in which they gather. Available through Amazon.com |
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Silver Screen, Sacred Story: Using Multimedia in Worship
Michael G. Bausch
The Alban Institute, 2002
(Title with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group since 2014)
This book is filled with practical suggestions for gaining congregational acceptance for the use of more visual arts in worship, how to build new teams of budding media artists, and the great value of preaching with eye-catching visuals that fit your worship setting and culture.
Available through Rowman & Littlefield or at Amazon.com
Michael G. Bausch
The Alban Institute, 2002
(Title with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group since 2014)
This book is filled with practical suggestions for gaining congregational acceptance for the use of more visual arts in worship, how to build new teams of budding media artists, and the great value of preaching with eye-catching visuals that fit your worship setting and culture.
Available through Rowman & Littlefield or at Amazon.com