Dr. Walter Brueggemann, left, a renowned biblical scholar, shares a joke with fellow panelists at a question-and-answer session Saturday at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity. Seated with Brueggemann, from left, are the Rev. Giulianna Gray, priest-in-charge of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church of Indianola; the Rev. Dr. Calvin Collins, pastor of New Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Greenwood; and the Rev. Carol Mead, rector of St. Peter’s by-the-Lake of Brandon.