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Doxacon Seattle 2015: Where Faith and Truth Meet Science Fiction and Fantasy

July 17th 5:00 pm to
July 19th 2:30 pm

Brockey Center
South Seattle College

**Are you a Christian who enjoys speculative fiction (i.e. science fiction and/or fantasy)? Are you tired of scifi/fantasy/gaming conventions that ignore the Christian dimensions of these works?**

In the shadow of Mount Rainier, between the magnificent Cascades and the majestic Olympics, the Geek Orthodox of Seattle want you to join us for a weekend of services, presentations, and fellowship. Doxacon Seattle promises to be an amazing opportunity for learning and deepening our faith.

Join us for a weekend of services, presentations, and just plain geeking out. Blessed by Archbishop BENJAMIN of the Orthodox Church in America, and with volunteers from jurisdictions all over the Pacific Northwest, Doxacon Seattle promises to be an amazing opportunity for fellowship, learning, and deepening our faith, as we look at science fiction and fantasy popular culture through a Christian lens.

Check out www.doxacon.org for more details.

Sponsored by Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church (OCA), Tacoma,WA

Keynote Speakers
Prevytera Elizabeth Tervo - Lay Keynote Speaker
Fr. Irenaeus Williams - Clergy Keynote Speaker

Doxacon Seattle Schedule

Friday: South Seattle College
Saturday: South Seattle College
Sunday: Seattle-Tacoma Local Parishes and Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church

FRIDAY July 17, 2015
5:00 PM(Service) Great Vespers - Fr Irenaeus Williams
6:30 PM(Open) Introductory Remarks
7:00 PM(General) Creation Unloved and Unloving: Frankenstein, The Modern Monster - Tim W. Brown
8:00 PM(Open) Meet and Greet

SATURDAY July 18, 2015
8:00 AM(Service) "Glory to God for All Things" (Akathist of Thanksgiving) - Fr Irenaeus Williams
9:30 AM(Clergy Keynote) - Our Heroic God, Our Fantastic Mission - Fr Irenaeus Williams
10:45 AM (Breakout 1) Aliens, Humans, and Personhood - Nico Martin
Pride and Humility in Discworld's Magic Users - Bev. Cooke
Ethics in Comics (Panel) - Steven "Reece" Friesen, Chris Klix, Chris Hawthorne, Danny Fergusen, Rebecca Jimenez, Walter Garre
Gaming for Life: Spiritual and Economic - Fr Serafim Gascoigne
The Cross is a Time Machine and It's Bigger on the Inside - Kevin Basil Fritts
12:00(Open)Lunch and Browse Vendors
1:30 PM(General) The Ethic of Christian Love in Star Trek: The United Federation of Planets as an Image of the Church
- Todd Trembley
2:45 PM(Breakout 2) Jim Butcher is my Starets - Kevin Mellis
The Language and the Fairy-Story: Stories of the Fantastic as a Way of Grace - Joshua Koczman
Preaching in Hell - James Hargrave
Achievement Unlocked: Negotiating a Full Orthodox Life with Online Role-Playing Games (Panel) - Tanya Keenan, Kara Vollman, Rdr. Radoje Spasojevic, Jamie Miller, Sarah White Trembley
Time after Time after Time.... - Trish Bartlett
4:00 PM(Lay Keynote) Title TBA - Presvytera Elizabeth Tervo
5:15 PM(Service) Reader's Vespers
6:00 PM(Open)Dinner and Browse Vendors
7:30 PM(Open)Performance by The Pangalacticats, Dancing, Mingling

SUNDAY July 19, 2015
9:30 AM(Service) Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom/Church Service - Several Parishes
1:30 PM(Open) Wrap-up Session and Feedback PanelPlanning Committee
2:30 PM(Open) Break for After-Convention Activities