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SUMMARY:Should I Defend Everyone's Religious Freedom?
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Singer\, Co-Director of Neighborly Faith\, moderates the second of a two-part discussion between Andrew T. Walker of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asma Uddin\, religious liberty lawyer who identifies as Muslim. This discussion will center on major themes in Walker’s new book\, “Liberty For All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age\,” released May 4 with Brazos Press.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/should-i-defend-everyones-religious-freedom/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Immigrants and the American Future
DESCRIPTION:Immigrants and the American Future:\nA Conversation with: \nPresident George W. Bush \nRussell Moore\nPresident\, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission\, Southern Baptist Convention \nYuval Levin\nDirector\, Social\, Cultural\, and Constitutional Studies\, American Enterprise Institute \nAlong with the George W. Bush Institute and the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention\, we are excited to bring you a conversation with President George W. Bush on his upcoming book\, Out of Many\, One: Portraits of America’s Immigrants\, a powerful collection of 43 portraits painted by President Bush and accompanying stories that exemplify the promise of America and our proud history as a nation of immigrants.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/immigrants-and-the-american-future/
CATEGORIES:Community,Imagining the Future,Politics
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SUMMARY:Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
DESCRIPTION:Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix\, unable to commit to watching any given movie—and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers that it’s too late to watch anything at all. In a book borne of an idea first articulated in a viral commencement address\, Pete Davis argues that this is the defining characteristic of the moment: keeping our options open. We are stuck in “Infinite Browsing Mode”—swiping through endless dating profiles without committing to a single partner\, jumping from place to place searching for the next big thing\, and refusing to make any decision that might close us off from an even better choice we imagine is just around the corner. This culture of restlessness and indecision\, Davis argues\, is causing tension in the lives of young people today: We want to keep our options open\, and yet we yearn for the purpose\, community\, and depth that can only come from making deep commitments. \nIn Dedicated\, Davis examines this quagmire\, as well as the counterculture of committers who have made it to the other side. He shares what we can learn from the “long-haul heroes” who courageously commit themselves to particular places\, professions\, and causes—who relinquish the false freedom of an open future in exchange for the deep fulfillment of true dedication. Weaving together examples from history\, personal stories\, and applied psychology\, Davis’s candid and humble words offer a meaningful answer to our modern frustrations and a practical path to joy. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/dedicated-the-case-for-commitment-in-an-age-of-infinite-browsing/
CATEGORIES:Imagining the Future,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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SUMMARY:Every Moment Holy\, Vol. 2: Death\, Grief and Hope
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Regent College Bookstore for a conversation with Douglas Kaine McKelvey about his recent publication\, Every Moment Holy\, Vol. 2: Death\, Grief and Hope. Douglas will be hosted by Regent’s Associate Dean of Students\, Claire Perini. \nEvery Moment Holy\, Vol. 2: Death\, Grief\, and Hope\, the much-anticipated follow-up to Every Moment Holy Vol. 1\, is a book of liturgies for seasons of dying and grieving. This volume includes prayers such as “A Liturgy for the Scattering of Ashes\,” “A Liturgy for the Loss of a Spouse\,” and “A Liturgy for the Wake of a National Tragedy.” These prayers are ways of reminding us that our lives are shot through with sacred purpose and eternal hope even when\, and especially when\, suffering and pain threaten to overwhelm us. Volume II is releasing April 2021\, and will be available at the Regent College Bookstore. \nDouglas Kaine McKelvey grew up in East Texas and moved to Nashville in 1991 to participate in the early work of Charlie Peacock’s Art House Foundation\, an organization dedicated to a shared exploration of faith and the arts. In the decades since\, he has worked as an author\, song lyricist\, scriptwriter\, and video director. He has penned more than 350 lyrics recorded by a variety of artists including Switchfoot\, Kenny Rogers\, Sanctus Real\, and Jason Gray. He and his wife Lise have three grown daughters and two sons-in-law. Douglas has served for the last four years as the sexton at St. John’s Anglican Church in Franklin\, Tennessee. \n\nDuring the event\, please submit questions to questions@regent-college.edu
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/every-moment-holy-vol-2-death-grief-and-hope/
CATEGORIES:Introspection,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Flannery\, ‘Revelation\,’ and Race
DESCRIPTION:The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University Presents: \nFlannery\, ‘Revelation\,’ and Race: an Audio Drama and a Contextual Conversation\nThursday\, April 29\, 2021\n6 p.m. EST\nModerated by Curran Center associate director Angela Alaimo O’Donnell\, Ph.d. \nPanelists: Professor Mark Chapman\, Ph.d. (Fordham University)\, author William Eric Waters\, director Karin Coonrod (Yale)\, and actor KenYatta Rogers (Montgomery College) \nThis contextual conversation\, which will take place as a webinar\, will begin with an audio stream of theater company Compagnia de’ Colombari’s latest work in development\, a stage production of “Revelation\,” Flannery O’Connor’s powerful story about race in the American South during the Civil Rights era.  Afterwards\, four distinguished panelists will engage in a contextual conversation around O’Connor and race. \nThis event\, the first of a series of contextual conversations\, is part of a project to build support for the future stage production of “Revelation.”  These contextual conversations\, by engaging directly with the issues surrounding the author’s views on race\, are designed to build engagement and support for the fully staged production of the drama. The conversation will be recorded for archival and educational purposes. \nFree and open to the public. Registration is required. A Zoom link will be sent upon registration. For more information\, or to RSVP\, email cacs@fordham.edu
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/flannery-revelation-and-race/
CATEGORIES:Learning From the Past,Politics,Race
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SUMMARY:Beyond Diversity
DESCRIPTION:Guided by the expert research team behind Barna’s Beyond Diversity study\, along with ministry practitioners\, journey toward deeper understanding and greater empathy around racial justice issues and learn how to cultivate a healthier multiethnic team and community.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/beyond-diversity/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Politics,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Reading the Gospels While Black: A Conversation with Esau McCaulley & N.T. Wright
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to partner with Seattle Pacific Seminary and Portland Seminary to present Reading the Gospels While Black\, a timely conversation between Dr. Esau McCaulley and Dr. N.T. Wright. The morning will open with a conversation between Dr. McCaulley and Dr. Wright\, followed by two teaching sessions and a Q&A session moderated by Tim Mackie of The Bible Project. We hope you’ll join us for this important and illuminating event. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but does require advanced registration.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/reading-the-gospels-while-black-a-conversation-with-esau-mccaulley-n-t-wright/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Palliative and Hospice Care From a Catholic Perspective
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a renewed societal focus on issues related to sickness and death. But how do we best care for the sick and for the dying? How do we appropriately provide palliative care and hospice care? \nIn the first collaboration between the National Catholic Bioethics Center and the Institute for Human Ecology\, listen to a panel discussion\, moderated by IHE Director of the M.A. Program in Human Rights William Saunders\, J.D.\, with ethicists Dr. Jozef Zalot (National Catholic Bioethics Center) and Dr. Myles Sheehan (Pellegrino Center for Clinical Ethics; Georgetown Medical School)\, on the definition and scope of palliative and hospice care from a Catholic perspective.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/palliative-and-hospice-care-from-a-catholic-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Church,Family,Introspection,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T133000
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SUMMARY:Suffering\, Healing & Meaning: An Online Conversation with Philip Yancey & Julia Wattacheril
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to host the next event in our “Discovery and Doxology” series in partnership with BioLogos and Church of the Advent. This series brings together leading scientists and theologians to discuss the relationship between science and faith. \nOn Friday\, April 23rd author and theologian Philip Yancey will be joined by Dr. Julia Wattacheril to discuss suffering and its redemption. Yancey believes that “the redemption of pain is better than the removal of it.” Yancey and Wattacheril will help us think through the meaning of our personal and national pain and how knowing the God who suffers-with us transforms our suffering into something beautiful. We hope you will join us! \nThis event was made possible through the support of a grant from Templeton Religion Trust. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views of Templeton Religion Trust.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/suffering-healing-meaning-an-online-conversation-with-philip-yancey-julia-wattacheril/
CATEGORIES:Church,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:'The Brown Church' with Rev. Dr. Chao Romero
DESCRIPTION:The Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School will sponsor a conversation with the Rev. Dr. Chao Romero speaking on his latest book\, Brown Church\, highlighting the history of the Latinx church and its pertinence to the present times. The event\, titled “The Brown Church\,” is part of the 2021 Sumérgete Webinar Series featuring webinars on a variety of topics for laity\, pastors\, and other interested persons on theological topics related to the Latinx community. \nRomero is “Asian-Latino” and has been a professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA since 2005. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Latin American History and his Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley\, and is also an attorney. Romero has published 15 academic books and articles on issues of race\, immigration\, history\, education\, and religion\, and received the Latina/o Studies book award from the international Latin American Studies Association. He  is an ordained pastor. Together with his wife Erica\, he is the co-founder of Jesus 4 Revolutionaries\, a Christian ministry to activists\, as well as the co-chair of the Matthew 25 Movement in Southern California.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-brown-church-with-rev-dr-chao-romero/
CATEGORIES:Justice,Race,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T120000
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SUMMARY:The Battle Over American History and Civics: The Traps and Perils of Having a National Plan
DESCRIPTION:A broad consensus has formed for improved instruction in American history and civics.  Multiple studies and assessments indicate that Americans have an appallingly deficient understanding of their history and their governing process.  And\, of course\, the events of political violence over the last year exacerbate those concerns. \nBut what should such an effort look like?  Should it be based within the states? Should Congress adopt a national strategy? If so\, should that be overseen by the federal bureaucracy and implemented by the states? \nFor a Faith and Law Friday Forum\, join IHE Director of the Program on the Constitution and Catholic Social Doctrine Emmett McGroarty for a conversation on U.S. civics and history education with Stanley Kurtz (Ethics and Public Policy Center) and Bill McClay (Liberty University).
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-battle-over-american-history-and-civics-the-traps-and-perils-of-having-a-national-plan/
CATEGORIES:Community,Learning From the Past,Politics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210413T140000
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SUMMARY:Neighbourliness in a Global Context
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be a good neighbour on a global scale? Theos researcher Simon Perfect will chair this talk given by the Bishop of London. \nWhat does it mean to be a good neighbour on a global scale? How might Brexit impact on our ability to live up to that challenge? Has the coronavirus pandemic taught us anything about solidarity with our international neighbours in a time of far–reaching disaster? How might all of this shape our approach to climate change? \nThe Rt Revd Sarah Mullally\, the Bishop of London\, will explore these questions at this event hosted by JustShare on 13th April\, asking how we might engage with our neighbours’ struggles\, allow our lives to be diverted off course for the sake of their wellbeing\, and recognise our resources as theirs. \n13th April\, 6–7.30pm GMT \nRegister for the event here. \nThe Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Bishop Sarah was installed as the 133rd Bishop of London at St Paul’s Cathedral on 12th May 2018. Before ordination she was Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health. She served her first curacy at Battersea Fields from 2001 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2012 she was Team Rector at Sutton\, both in the Diocese of Southwark. From 2012 to 2015 she was Canon Residentiary and Canon Treasurer at Salisbury Cathedral before her consecration in 2015 as the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2005 for her contribution to nursing and midwifery. \nSimon Perfect is a Researcher at Theos\, the religion and society thinktank\, and a Tutor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is the author of Theos reports exploring religion or belief in universities\, economic inequality in the UK\, and university chaplaincy. He is also co–author of the book Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam\, Charities and Counter–terrorism (Routledge\, 2021).
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/neighbourliness-in-a-global-context/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Living in the Midst of Death: Theological Reflections on Aging and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Being human in our technological age requires not merely technical skills but—more importantly—intellectual capacity to navigate a rapidly changing philosophical milieu. Join us this winter for our online lecture series\, Human Flourishing in a Technological Age\, to learn from leading scholars about key aspects of what it means to be human in a technological age: personhood\, embodied cognition\, leisure\, transhumanism and more. \nPlease join us on Friday\, April 9 as we welcome Dr. Michael Mawson who will give the lecture “Living in the Midst of Death: Theological Reflections on Aging and Technology.” \n\nDr. Mawson will draw upon the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Austrian born philosopher Jean Améry to reflect upon the phenomenon of human ageing. In particular\, he will explore how Bonhoeffer and Améry might help us to better understand and attend to the ambiguities and complexities of our experiences of ageing. In the first part\, Dr. Mawson will engage Bonhoeffer’s theological account of the human being as situated between life and death. In his 1933 Creation and Fall\, Bonhoeffer presents human beings as existing between the two conflicting promises of the opening chapters of Genesis: God’s promise to Adam in the garden (‘if you eat from this tree you will surely die’) and the Serpent’s promise to Eve (‘you will not die at all’). These two promises together encapsulate and disclose the situation of the humanity: ‘After the fall\, all human beings are suspended between these two conflicting statements—living towards death\, living as those already dead.’ In the second part of this lecture\, Dr. Mawson will turn to Améry’s phenomenological reflections in On Ageing: Revolution and Revolt (1968)\, wherein he provides an account of ageing as ‘death in the midst of life’. In aging\, as Améry reflects\, “we become more alienated from ourselves and more familiar with ourselves…Day and night cancel each other out in twilight.” Améry’s rich descriptions thus draw attention to ambiguities and tensions that are present in all experiences of aging. Dr. Mawson will conclude by demonstrating how Bonhoeffer and Améry can assist with contesting the kinds of utopianism and idealism prevalent in many standard approaches to aging. In particular\, Bonhoeffer and Amery help us to recognise the limitations of medical and technological responses to aging. Such responses fail to address our actual human experience because they promote life as the opposite of death\, and in so doing they fail to attend to the nature of aging as dying.\n\n\n\nDr. Michael Mawson is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology & Ethics and Research Fellow in the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre at Charles Sturt University\, Australia. He holds a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and teaches theology and ethics at the United Theological College of Charles Sturt University in Sydney Australia. He has particular interests in modern German theology and ethics\, bioethics\, phenomenology\, and the writing of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He has completed a monograph on Bonhoeffer’s ecclesiology and is at the beginning of a new project on ethics and aging. He has co-edited four books including the Oxford Handbook of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dr Mawson’s work has also appeared in The Scottish Journal of Theology\, The International Journal of Systematic Theology\, and The Journal of Religion\, Disability and Health.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/living-in-the-midst-of-death-theological-reflections-on-aging-and-technology/
CATEGORIES:Introspection,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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SUMMARY:All the Lonely People: Isolation\, Connection & The Common Good
DESCRIPTION:An Online Conversation with Ryan Streeter & Francie Broghammer\nOn April 9\, in partnership with the Pepperdine School of Public Policy we are excited to host author and scholar Ryan Streeter and psychiatrist Francie Broghammer on America’s epidemic of loneliness and the path towards meaningful connection. \nLoneliness in America has been sharply increasing\, even before the onset of the pandemic — despite our virtually unprecedented national prosperity\, technological advance\, and immediate virtual access to information and each other\, there is\, in the words of our guest Francie Broghammer\, a growing “toll of despair.” The thinning of many family and community ties has sharpened our felt sense of isolation\, and led some to seek a sense of solidarity in political involvement. But Streeter’s research has found that “normally\, when people get involved in their communities\, social capital grows and loneliness declines…But we have found that political engagement is a lone exception to this rule.” \nHow then should we think about reinvigorating the relational and community ties that encourage the flourishing of both the individual and the body politic? What are the antidotes to isolation in a time of pandemic — and beyond? Is there hope for connecting lonely people in a divided nation at a polarized time? \nWe hope you’ll join us as we wrestle with these questions and more.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/all-the-lonely-people-isolation-connection-the-common-good/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Does Civility Still Matter?
DESCRIPTION:In an increasingly polarized age\, people are confused about when civility is appropriate\, and what it entails. In a conversation moderated by David Corey (Baylor in Washington)\, join Dr. Cornel West (Union Theological Seminary)\, Dr. Teresa Bejan (Oxford University)\, and Dr. Andrew Sullivan (The Weekly Dish) to explore these questions\, as well as the role of religious faith in the practice of civility. \nThe IHE is pleased to cosponsor this event with Baylor in Washington as a program of the Joint Initiative on Faith and the American Commonwealth.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/does-civility-still-matter/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Learning From the Past,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:A Conversation About 'Jesus and the Disinherited' with Dean Luke Powery & Dr. Walter Fluker
DESCRIPTION:As part of its Duke Chapel Reads series\, the chapel will host online conversations about the book Jesus and the Disinherited by the theologian and minister Howard Thurman as a way to address contemporary issues of faith\, race\, justice\, and love. Through the reading series\, the chapel aims to curate spaces for reflection and conversation based on a common book reading each semester. \nChapel Dean and Duke Divinity School Professor Luke A. Powery will host a concluding online discussion in the series on April 6 of the book with Dr. Walter Fluker\, a scholar of Thurman’s work. Fluker is the editor of the multi-volume series The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman and is Dean’s Professor of Spirituality\, Ethics\, and Leadership at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. \n“Jesus and the Disinherited stands out as a book that both critiques the injustices suffered by people facing oppression and also offers a spirituality of true resistance and reconciliation centered on the love of Jesus\,” Powery said. “It is a book that helped sustain and guide the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. and his colleagues in the Civil Rights Movement—and I believe it is a book that can provide vision and insight for us in our time and during this upcoming season of Lent.” \nMembers of the Duke community and others who are interested in participating in an online reading group about the book are invited to contact the Rev. Bruce Puckett\, assistant dean of the Chapel. \nIn Jesus and the Disinherited\, first published in 1949\, Thurman frames the book as a response to an inquiry about how he can hold to a Christian faith that has been used to justify the enslavement and mistreatment of Black Americans for centuries. Using the sociological language of his time\, Thurman explores how Jesus\, a rural Jew under Roman occupation\, was among\, and spoke to\, those “with their backs against the wall.” Thurman argues that from this social location Jesus teaches against evils that could corrode the oppressed from within—fear\, deception\, and hate—and for an ethic of love. \nPowery is currently teaching a course through Duke’s Divinity School titled “Deep River: Howard Thurman\, Spirituality\, and the Prophetic Life.” He recently contributed an essay to the book Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator\, Activist\, Guide\, and Prophet\, which offers fresh insights into Thurman as a mystic\, preacher\, educator\, and theologian.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/a-conversation-about-jesus-and-the-disinherited-with-dean-luke-powery-dr-walter-fluker/
CATEGORIES:Church,Education,Learning From the Past
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SUMMARY:Being\, Living & Dying Well: an Online Conversation with Lydia Dugdale
DESCRIPTION:On Good Friday\, April 2nd we invite you to join us for a conversation with professor and physician Lydia Dugdale. In her recent book\, The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom\, Dugdale revisits ancient wisdom circulated in the wake of the Black Plague about living and dying well. \nOn this Good Friday\, in the wake of our own plague and year of loss\, we invite you to consider what the Passion of Christ means for our living and our dying\, and the hope and beauty that can be found\, even in the valley of the shadow of death. \nSpecial thanks to this event’s sponsors: Goodwin House\nAnd thanks to our co-hosts: Yale Center for Faith and Culture
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/being-living-dying-well-an-online-conversation-with-lydia-dugdale/
CATEGORIES:Church,COVID-19,Introspection,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210401T153000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Law Professor & Author John Inazu
DESCRIPTION:Regent College and the Regent College Bookstore are pleased to invite you to a conversation with law professor and author John Inazu. Hosted by Dr. Iwan Russell-Jones\, Mr. Inazu will be discussing his recent books Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference and Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference\, co-edited with Tim Keller. \nIn Confident Pluralism\, Mr. Inazu analyzes the current state of America\, orients the contemporary United States within its broader history\, and explores the ways that Americans can—and must—strive to live together peaceably despite our deeply engrained differences. Pluralism is one of the founding creeds of the United States—yet America’s society and legal system continues to face deep\, unsolved structural problems in dealing with differing cultural anxieties and differing viewpoints. Inazu not only argues that it is possible to cohabitate peacefully\, but also lays out realistic guidelines for our society and legal system to achieve the new American dream through civic practices that value toleration over protest\, humility over defensiveness\, and persuasion over coercion. \nIn Uncommon Ground\, John Inazu and Tim Keller bring together a variety of artists\, thinkers\, and leaders to address the question: How can Christians today interact with those around them in a way that shows respect to those whose beliefs are radically different but that also remains faithful to the gospel? \nJohn Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis.  He teaches criminal law\, religion and law\, and various First Amendment courses. He writes and speaks frequently to general audiences on topics of pluralism\, assembly\, free speech\, religious freedom\, and other issues. Inazu is the author of Liberty’s Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly (Yale\, 2012) and Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (Chicago\, 2016).  He is co-editor (with Tim Keller) of Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference (Thomas Nelson\, 2020). \nDuring the event\, please submit questions to questions@regent-college.edu.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/a-conversation-with-law-professor-author-john-inazu/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210330T080000
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SUMMARY:Life\, Young Latinos\, and COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
DESCRIPTION:A year after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the United States and the world\, many are reflecting on the past year and where we go from here. It has raised questions about whose life is protected and valued by our health care system\, which workers are “essential\,” and how self-isolation has affected cultural\, family\, religious\, and social life. For the diverse U.S. Latino community\, the pandemic has had a pervasive and disproportionate impact with both familiar and unique challenges. \nThis online discussion among four young Latino leaders explored how the pandemic has affected them personally and how it has affected Latino communities more broadly. This gathering also explored priorities\, challenges\, and next steps for young Latinos as COVID-19 vaccinations increase\, the pandemic decreases\, and new challenges and opportunities emerge. \n\nKim Daniels\, co-director of the Initiative\, moderated the conversation. \nResources\nView a list of articles\, books\, podcasts\, and other resources for this gathering. \nThis Latino Leader Gathering was for young Latino Catholics who seek to explore the links between faith\, Catholic social thought\, and their lives and work and was supported by the Democracy Fund.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/life-young-latinos-and-covid-19-where-do-we-go-from-here/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Imagining the Future,Justice,Politics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T153000
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SUMMARY:My Dream\, My Taste: What does it mean to live a good life?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of multi–award nominated 3–minute film ‘My Dream\, My Taste’ and a conversation around the themes raised. \nWhat does it mean to live a good life? Is there a right way to live our lives? Is there such thing as a ‘common good’\, or do we simply create our own meaning as individuals? \nJoin us on 29th March at 7.30pm as we bring together leading voices from the fields of philosophy\, theology and the creative arts to collectively consider some of these enduring questions and what they might have to offer us as we begin the long journey to recovery from the Covid–19 pandemic. \nThe event will begin with the debut screening of our very first Sacred short animated film by award winning director and filmmaker Emily Downe\, bringing us into the world of a young girl who\, in pursuit of her dreams\, ends up detached from others and the world around her. \nThe film prompts us to consider the value of human connection and community and will provide a launchpad for a thoroughly rich conversation about its themes with our expert panel. \nThe panel will include theologian Professor Miroslav Volf\, whose episode of The Sacred podcast inspired the film\, philosopher Julian Baggini and former Head of Content at The School of Life Sarah Stein Lubrano. \nYou can subscribe to The Sacred podcast on Spotify here. \nSpeakers: \nEmily Downe is an animation director. She has an MA in Documentary Animation from the Royal College of Art. Alongside working as Creative Designer at Theos\, she works independently as an animation director\, specialising in documentary short film\, and she is a co–director of Studio Desk (studio–desk.co.uk) \nMiroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and is the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He has written or edited more than 20 books\, over 100 scholarly articles\, and his work has been featured in the Washington Post\, Christianity Today\, Christian Century and Sojourners among others. \nJulian Baggini is a philosopher and writer. He is the author of over 20 books about philosophy\, the co–founder of The Philosophers’ Magazine and has written for numerous international newspapers and magazines. \nSarah Stein Lubrano is a learning designer\, content strategist\, and researcher at Oxford University studying political theory and its relationship to psychology. For many years she was the Head of Content at The School of Life in London. \nYou will receive the Zoom link in your booking confirmation. Please note the event will be recorded. The event is free but if you would like to make a donation this option is available when you book your place. Any donation is much appreciated.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/my-dream-my-taste-what-does-it-mean-to-live-a-good-life/
CATEGORIES:Community,Introspection,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210329T160000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Dr. Ross Hastings
DESCRIPTION:The Regent College Bookstore invites you to join us for a conversation with Dr. Ross Hastings\, Regent’s Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology\, about his recently published book\, Theological Ethics: The Moral Life of the Gospel in Contemporary Context. Ross will be hosted by Dr. Jens Zimmermann. \nTheological Ethics is an introduction to the field of theological ethics with a Trinitarian perspective that guides pastors\, ministry leaders\, and students about how to think in a gospel way about the moral formation of persons and communities\, about ethical inquiry and action\, and about the tone and content of engagement in the public square. \nDuring the event\, please submit questions to questions@regent-college.edu. \nTheological Ethics can be purchased through the Regent College Bookstore here.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/a-conversation-with-dr-ross-hastings/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T160000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Author Laura Fabrycky
DESCRIPTION:The Regent College Bookstore invites you to join us for a conversation with author Laura M.  Fabrycky about her recent book\, Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Hous: Exploring the World and Wisdom of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Ms. Fabrycky will be hosted by Dr. Iwan Russell-Jones. \nIn Keys to Bonhoeffer’s Haus\, Laura M. Fabrycky\, an American guide of the Bonhoeffer-Haus in Berlin\, takes readers on a tour of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s home\, city\, and world. She shares the keys she has discovered there–the many sources of Bonhoeffer’s identity\, his practices of Scripture meditation and prayer\, his willingness to cross boundaries and befriend people all around the world–that have unlocked her understanding of her own life and responsibilities in light of Bonhoeffer’s wisdom. \nLaura M. Fabrycky is an American writer\, diplomatic spouse\, and mother of three\, currently residing in Brussels\, Belgium. \nDuring the event\, please submit questions to questions@regent-college.edu.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/a-conversation-with-author-laura-fabrycky/
CATEGORIES:Art,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T130000
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SUMMARY:Good Ancestors: A Conversation with Sophie Howe\, Future Generations Commissioner of Wales
DESCRIPTION:With a remit set out in law to be “the guardian of the interests of future generations in Wales\,” Sophie Howe is the world’s only Future Generations Commissioner. Described by The Guardian as the “World’s first minister of the Unborn”\, her role is to provide advice to the Government and other public bodies in Wales on delivering social\, economic\, environmental and cultural well-being for current and future generations and assessing and reporting on how they are delivering. \nCommissioner Howe will join Capita Board member Nicole Biondi for a conversation about what governments owe future generations and how to build the capacities across government\, business\, and civil society to act with responsible stewardship on behalf of the billions of children yet to be born both in this century and in the centuries to come.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/good-ancestors-a-conversation-with-sophie-howe-future-generations-commissioner-of-wales/
CATEGORIES:Community,Imagining the Future,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T160000
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SUMMARY:Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Regent College Bookstore for a conversation with Dr. Mark Glanville and Dr. Luke Glanville about their recent publication\, Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics. They will be hosted by Regent President Dr. Jeff Greenman. \nThe global crisis of forced displacement is growing every year. At the same time\, Western Christians’ sympathy toward refugees is increasingly overshadowed by concerns about personal and national security\, economics\, and culture. We urgently need a perspective that understands both Scripture and current political realities and that can be applied at the levels of the church\, the nation\, and the globe. \nIn Refuge Reimagined\, Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville offer a new approach to compassion for displaced people: a biblical ethic of kinship. God’s people\, they argue\, are consistently called to extend kinship—a mutual responsibility and solidarity—to those who are marginalized and without a home. Drawing on their respective expertise in Old Testament studies and international relations\, the two brothers engage a range of disciplines to demonstrate how this ethic is consistently conveyed throughout the Bible and can be practically embodied today. \nDr. Mark Glanville is associate professor of pastoral theology at Regent College and an Old Testament scholar. He is the author of Adopting the Stranger as Kindred in Deuteronomy and Freed to Be God’s Family: The Book of Exodus and has written articles for a variety of publications including the Journal of Biblical Literature\, Refuge Journal\, Journal of Missional Practice\, Christian Educators Journal\, Evangelicals for Social Action\, Faith Today\, The Light Magazine\, and The Presbyterian Pulse. He previously ministered in a missional urban community\, Grandview Calvary Baptist Churc\, Vancouver\, and was a professor of congregational theology at the Missional Training Center in Phoenix. \nDr. Luke Glanville is associate professor in the department of international relations at Australian National University. He is the author of Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History\, which won the Australian Political Science Association Crisp Prize in 2016 and the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award in 2014. \nQuestions for the authors can be submitted during the event by emailing questions@regent-college.edu.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/refuge-reimagined-biblical-kinship-in-global-politics/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210322T173000
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SUMMARY:'Imagining a Shared Future' with Dr. Robyn Henderson Espinoza
DESCRIPTION:The Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School will sponsor “Imagining a Shared Future\,” a conversation with Dr. Robyn Henderson Espinoza on how we might imagine a future together in the midst of recurring violence. The event is part of the 2021 Sumérgete Webinar Series featuring webinars on a variety of topics for laity\, pastors\, and other interested persons on theological topics related to the Latinx community. \nHenderson Espinoza is a scholar-activist\, leader\, teacher\, public theologian\, ethicist\, poet of moral reason\, and word artist. A visionary thinker\, Henderson Espinoza has spent two decades working in the borderlands of church\, academy\, and movements seeking to not only disrupt but dismantle supremacy culture by focusing their Ph.D. studies on new concepts of being and becoming\, decolonizing knowledge production\, and bridging with radical difference. They enflesh a deep hope of collaborating in these borderland spaces where their work seeks to contribute to the ongoing work of collective liberation. Henderson Espinoza is the founder of the Activist Theology Project\, a Nashville\, Tenn.\, based collaborative project that seeks to work with the dominant culture and produces curriculum at the intersection of scholarship and activism.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/imagining-a-shared-future-with-dr-robyn-henderson-espinoza/
CATEGORIES:Community,Imagining the Future,Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210321T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210321T163000
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SUMMARY:Disability\, Technology\, and Human Flourishing
DESCRIPTION:Being human in our technological age requires not merely technical skills but—more importantly—intellectual capacity to navigate a rapidly changing philosophical milieu. Join us this winter for our online lecture series\, Human Flourishing in a Technological Age\, to learn from leading scholars about key aspects of what it means to be human in a technological age: personhood\, embodied cognition\, leisure\, transhumanism and more. \nPlease join us on Friday\, March 12 as we welcome Dr. Eleanor McLaughlin who will give the lecture “Disability\, Technology\, and Human Flourishing.” \nDr. McLaughlin will assess the role of technology for human flourishing of people with disabilities in two steps. First\, she will define human flourishing as depending in large part on our relationships with others\, suggesting that\, despite Christian theology’s historical failure to understand this relational core of human flourishing\, evidenced by the church’s supporting the us/them divide between people with and without disabilities\, there are nevertheless resources within theology that can help overcome this divide\, and thus strengthen relationships between all people. Drawing on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s idea that in the biblical Genesis narrative the limit given to Adam and Eve symbolises God’s grace to humans\, and on Deborah Creamer’s ‘limitness’ model in disability theology\, Dr. McLaughlin proposes an important distinction between our ontological limitedness\, and our encounter with specific limits that prevent us from flourishing. Dr. McLaughlin then will employ this distinction between ontological limitness and specific limits in assessing the value of technological enhancement for disabled persons. This distinction allows an evaluation of technology which is positive when technology’s role is to help us overcome specific limits preventing us from flourishing (particularly in helping us build relationships with others)\, but which is negative when technology seeks to eradicate the ontological limitedness which gives us the potential to experience God’s grace in our embodied life. \nDr. Eleanor McLaughlin is the Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Programmes in Theology\, Imagination\, and Culture at Sarum College. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a master’s degree from the University of Geneva. Ellie’s research interests include disability theology\, medical ethics\, the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer\, and the interface between loving and being limited by the Other. She is the author of Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Late Theology: Encounters With the Unknown Christ (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic\, 2020) and “Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Death of God Theologians\,” in Engaging Bonhoeffer: The Impact and Influence of Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought\, ed. by Matthew D. Kirkpatrick (Fortress Press\, 2016)\, and co-author of “Love in Religion: An Annotated Bibliography\,” available online at https://loveinreligion.org/resources.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/disability-technology-and-human-flourishing/
CATEGORIES:Community,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210319T140000
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SUMMARY:Saint Joseph\, Ordinary Holiness\, and the Renewal of Society
DESCRIPTION:On 8 December 2020\, the Holy Father announced the “Year of Saint Joseph” to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Church’s declaration of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church. \nThroughout 2021\, the IHE will be hosting a series of events to honor Saint Joseph\, who is also our patron in particular. Join IHE Fellow Michael Pakaluk and Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the Feast of Saint Joseph (March 19) for a discussion on Saint Joseph\, fatherhood\, and the relationship between holy families and the renewal of society. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Carmelite Studies at The Catholic University of America: https://trs.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/institutes/carmelite-center/. \n\n\n\nTime
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/saint-joseph-ordinary-holiness-and-the-renewal-of-society/
CATEGORIES:Church,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T183000
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SUMMARY:More Work\, Fewer Babies
DESCRIPTION:Egalitarian values and generous social welfare states had been credited with protecting the Nordic countries in particular from very low fertility rates. Yet since 2008\, birth rates in those countries have nonetheless plummeted. Join IHE Fellows Bradford Wilcox (professor of sociology at the University of Virginia)\, Laurie DeRose (professor of sociology at The Catholic University of America)\, and American Enterprise Institute Fellow Lyman Stone for a conversation about a key factor impacting fertility rates — attitudes towards work. Our speakers will tackle the elevation of work and career advancement to a very high place in individual’s values and provide evidence that the concept of workism helps explain reduced fertility worldwide.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/more-work-fewer-babies/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Imagining the Future,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T163000
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CREATED:20210215T172228Z
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SUMMARY:Art and Faith: A Theology of Making
DESCRIPTION:Regent College and the Dal Schindell Gallery are excited to welcome Makoto Fujimura for the launch of his new book\, Art and Faith: A Theology of Making. In this book\, Fujimura attends to both the spiritual and creative aspects of making. Interviewed by Dr. Iwan Russell-Jones\, this integrative conversation will be of interest to theologians and artists alike. Hailed as “a real tonic for our atomized time\,” by Christian Wiman\, Fujimura’s book offers wisdom and knowledge born of a thirty year period as artist and cultural carer. \nMakoto Fujimura is an artist\, writer\, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. A Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003-2009\, Fujimura served as an international advocate for the arts\, speaking with decision makers and advising governmental policies on the arts. \nFujimura’s work is exhibited at galleries around the world\, including Dillon Gallery in New York\, Sato Museum in Tokyo\, The Contemporary Museum of Tokyo\, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts Museum\, Bentley Gallery in Arizona\, Gallery Exit and Oxford House at Taikoo Place in Hong Kong\, and Vienna’s Belvedere Museum. He is one of the first artists to paint live on stage at New York City’s legendary Carnegie Hall as part of an ongoing collaboration with composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra. In celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible\, Crossway Publishing commissioned and published “The Four Holy Gospels“\, featuring Fujimura’s illuminations of the sacred texts. In addition to Art and Faith\, he is also the author of Refractions and Culture Care. \nArt and Faith is available through the Regent College Bookstore here. \nThe art prints shown in the image above are available for purchase through Culture Care Creative to benefit Embers International.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/art-and-faith-a-theology-of-making/
CATEGORIES:Art,Church,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210318
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SUMMARY:Character and the Professions (conference)
DESCRIPTION:Recent events have revealed the importance of character in leadership as well as the widespread lack of trust in our institutions. The professions have a special opportunity and obligation to promote personal integrity and to advance social trust. \nOn March 18-20\, 2021\, the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University and the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford will host a free virtual conference on Character and the Professions. The conference will consider questions such as: \n\nWhat obligations do professionals have for advancing the public good?\nWhat distinctive virtues are most important to ethical leadership for professionals?  What vices are most dangerous or tempting?\nHow can character be educated or improved among current or aspiring professionals?\nHow do specific institutions\, incentives\, and cultures form or de-form the character of professionals?\n\nIn partnership with the Face to Face Speaker Forum\, the conference will feature a keynote session with former U.S. Secretaries of State\, Madeleine K. Albright and General Colin L. Powell (Ret.)\, who will discuss leadership and character in public life. \nThe remainder of the conference will feature focused sessions that examine the role of character in the professions and elevate the virtues that are most important for professionals across the following contexts: business\, engineering and technology\, law\, medicine\, public life\, and religious leadership. A plenary session will explore the relationship between diversity and character in various professional settings. \nConfirmed speakers include prominent scholars from Carnegie Mellon University\, the University of Edinburgh\, Harvard University\, University of Pennsylvania\, Stanford University\, University of Virginia\, and Wake Forest University\, along with leading practitioners across various fields. \nThis international conference will provide a special opportunity for students\, faculty\, staff\, and professionals to explore the importance of character in various professional settings and consider ways of cultivating character in their personal and professional lives. \nThe conference is funded with support from the John Templeton Foundation\, Kern Family Foundation\, and Lilly Endowment Inc.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/character-and-the-professions-conference/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Education,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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