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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210301T185921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T155417Z
UID:5944-1616162400-1616162400@breakingground.us
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
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210215T170824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T155456Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210215T172228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T155531Z
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210321
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210308T201502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T155559Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T163000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210308T201020Z
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SUMMARY:Care Under Covid-19: Providing Spiritual and Pastoral Support at a Distance
DESCRIPTION:This event explores how chaplains have supported people during the crisis\, and how care has changed with restrictions on physical presence. \nAmong those on the front–line of the Covid crisis\, there are people whose job it is to provide spiritual and pastoral care for anyone who needs it. Throughout the pandemic\, chaplains\, faith advisors and pastoral carers have been supporting the isolated\, offering a listening ear to the anxious\, and comforting the ill\, dying and bereaved. Some of this work has attracted national media attention: The Guardian\, for example\, published an article at the height of the first lockdown about chaplains’ support for medical staff as they “come to terms with the difficult choices they have had to make”. \nChaplains have been more needed than ever before\, but the nature of their work has had to change dramatically. While some have remained in their workplace\, many others have no longer been able to offer support in person. This raises important questions about the nature and future of spiritual and pastoral care. What does it look like when physical presence is restricted or lost? What should chaplains and others learn from the pandemic to develop their practice? And how can this sector\, which involves a high proportion of volunteers\, be given the support and recognition it deserves? \nMore broadly\, we are interested in reflecting on the themes of presence\, accompaniment and hope. \nThis event on 17th March 2021 brings together a panel of chaplains and pastoral carers to discuss spiritual and pastoral care at a time of physical distance. It also marks the launch of new research by Theos\, exploring the contributions of university chaplains during Covid\, the challenges they have faced\, and what can be learned from their experiences. \nSpeakers: \nSimon Perfect \nSimon is a researcher at Theos and is the author of Theos’ new report Relationships\, Presence and Hope: University Chaplaincy During the COVID–19 Pandemic. It explores the contributions of university chaplains supporting students and staff during the pandemic\, and the major challenges they have faced. Simon is also a researcher and tutor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). \nRevd Canon Mia Hilborn \nMia is Hospitaller for Guy’s and St Thomas’ and the Evelina London Children’s Hospital\, and runs the only chaplain–led PG Cert in healthcare chaplaincy with London South Bank University. She is chaplain and trustee for the Firefighters Memorial Trust\, Senior Brigade Chaplain for the London Fire Brigade and committee member for the Fire & Rescue Services Chaplains Association. \nDr Gemma Simmonds CJ \nGemma is a sister of the Congregation of Jesus\, founded by Mary Ward (1585–1645). She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge where she is director of the Religious Life Institute. She lectured in Christian Spirituality at Heythrop College\, University of London from 2005 until its closure in 2018\, specialising in Spiritual Direction in the Ignatian tradition. An international speaker and lecturer working in the fields of Christian spirituality and ecclesiology\, she has been a missionary in Brazil and a chaplain in the Universities of Cambridge and London as well as a chaplaincy volunteer in Holloway Prison for 26 years. She is a regular broadcaster on religious matters on the BBC. Her book\, The Way of Ignatius\, was published by SPCK for Lent 2019 and was serialised as the Lenten retreat on Pray As You Go https://pray-as-you-go.org Her most recent book\, Treasuring God’s Word is published by Pauline Books and Media and another book on retreats at home\, Dancing at the Still Point\, is due for publication by SPCK in July 2021. \nLindsay van Dijk \nLindsay is an accredited humanist funeral celebrant at Humanists U.K. and she has been trained on Master’s level in the Netherlands at the University of Humanistic Studies (in Utrecht) to provide humanist and existential counselling\, coaching and pastoral care. Lindsay is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and the British Association for the Person–Centered Approach (BAPCA). Lindsay is accredited as a pastoral carer through the UK Board of healthcare Chaplaincy (UKBHC) and the Non–Religious Pastoral Support Network (NRPSN). She is the chair of the NRPSN and the first humanist lead Chaplain to have ever been appointed within the U.K. \nRevd Lindsay Meader \nLindsay is an Anglican priest\, serving as the Lead Theatre Chaplain for the Diocese of London and Senior Chaplain of Theatre Chaplaincy UK. Prior to this she served for 14 years as Associate Rector of St James’s Piccadilly. \nYou will be receive the zoom link in your booking confirmation. Please note the event will be recorded.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/care-under-covid-19-providing-spiritual-and-pastoral-support-at-a-distance-2/
CATEGORIES:Church,COVID-19,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T140000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
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SUMMARY:Can the Republic Be Rebuilt?
DESCRIPTION:Bipartisan agreement exists in affirming that our republican political system has decayed over the last two generations. But why has this decay happened and what can we do to stop it? Can we save our institutions or is saving them an impossible project? \nJoin IHE Media Fellow Ross Douthat (The New York Times) for a conversation about the causes of decline in our American republic and how our republican system of government might be rebuilt. Douthat asks Yuval Levin (Director of Social\, Cultural\, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor of The New Atlantis) and Christopher Caldwell (Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute) for their reflections on and diagnoses of the causes of our republican government’s decline as well as what we need to do to save it.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/can-the-republic-be-rebuilt/
CATEGORIES:Learning From the Past,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T133000
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CREATED:20210301T184909Z
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SUMMARY:Faith\, Fear & Conspiracy: An Online Conversation with David French
DESCRIPTION:What is behind the rise of conspiracy theories? And what harm do they bring? Writing for The Dispatch\, David French noted\, “What is a conspiracy theory but a lie? It comprehensively and grievously violates the Ninth Commandment. A conspiracy theorist bears false witness against his neighbors—against his fellow citizens. He accuses them of grievous sins\, he destroys their good name\, and he can even incite deadly violence.” He concluded: “Unless the church can address its deep and more fundamental failure of moral and theological instruction in politics\, many of its leaders and thinkers will continue to play whack-a-mole with the symptoms of the underlying disease. And make no mistake\, conspiracy theories represent one of those symptoms.” \nOn Friday\, March 12th\, we look forward to welcoming Senior Editor of The Dispatch and American political commentator David French. In his new book\, Divided We Fall\, French explores not only the rise of conspiracy thinking\, but also the tribalism and alienation that has divided the country. We hope you will join us for this timely discussion about the Christian response to conspiracy theories\, and the power of faith as an antidote to the fear that fuels them.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/faith-fear-conspiracy-an-online-conversation-with-david-french/
CATEGORIES:Church,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210301T185331Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T155954Z
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SUMMARY:Evaluating Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:What do people mean when they say liberalism has failed? Or that “classical liberalism” is good? Liberalism (whatever it is) seems to be receiving more critical attention than ever. Does it deserve it? And what should Christians make of this? \nJoin David Corey for a conversation with William T. Cavanaugh\, Kristen Deede Johnson\, and Samuel Goldman for a conversation about the current state of liberalism in America. \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/evaluating-liberalism/
CATEGORIES:Church,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T110000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210225T172133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T160044Z
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SUMMARY:Children's Museums After Covid-19: A Conversation with Play Africa’s Gretchen Wilson-Prangley
DESCRIPTION:Covid-19 has made things especially difficult for cultural institutions that serve children. Join us for a conversation with Play Africa’s Gretchen Wilson-Prangley about their transition from a hands-on experience to a digital one and how they are “equipping children and families for the future through play\, creativity and connection” during the pandemic. We will hear from Gretchen about what cultural institutions focused on children need to be concerned with as we transition (eventually) to a post-Covid world.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/childrens-museums-after-covid-19-a-conversation-with-play-africas-gretchen-wilson-prangley/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Family,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210204T140014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T160335Z
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SUMMARY:Family-Friendly Work: History and New Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Online Discussion:\nHow COVID-19 Has Created an Urgent Need for Family-Friendly Work \nCOVID-19 has upended the lives of millions of Americans and highlighted the deficiency in family-friendly workplace policies. Caregivers are strained under the weight of life in these unprecedented times having to serve as workers\, educators\, and nurses. But\, it does not have to be this way\, we can design a system that works for all families \nI’d like to invite you to join the Center for Public Justice’s Families Valued Team for a three-part discussion series on the impact of COVID-19 on caregivers and the opportunities to make changes to ensure the flourishing of all. The series begins on February 11. \nWe are delighted to host the following panelists for our first webinar: ‘Caring for Loved Ones During a Pandemic‘ \n\n\nSharifa Stevens\, writer\, speaker\, and singer \n\n\nMandy Arioto\, President and CEO\, MOPS International \n\n\nJua Robinson\, Executive Director\, Boston Collaborative \n\n\nRegina Robinson\, Dean of Student Affairs\, Cambridge College
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/family-friendly-work-history-and-new-possibilities/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Family,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T143000
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CREATED:20210310T170418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T160423Z
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SUMMARY:Fratelli Tutti: Social Solidarity from Several Points of View
DESCRIPTION:Pope Francis’ 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti (On Fraternity and Social Friendship) sets out the spirit and principle of solidarity—our ineradicable human bonds to one another—as the basis for Catholic social teaching and the underpinning of truly humane economics\, politics\, and culture. Francis’ insights are powerfully consonant with the insights of a number of the Anglophone world’s most original and influential public intellectuals. \n\n\nThis virtual conversation will invite three such figures—philosopher Michael J. Sandel\, novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson\, and essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra—to speak to the themes of Fratelli Tutti in terms they have developed in their own work. Georgetown President John J. DeGioia will introduce the conversation. Paul Elie\, author and Berkley Center senior fellow\, will moderate. \nThis event is hosted by the Office of the President and the Berkley Center for Religion\, Peace\, and World Affairs at Georgetown University in partnership with the Georgetown University Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life\, the Pontifical Council for Culture\, and La Civiltà Cattolica. \nThis event will be recorded and a captioned video will be posted to this page after the event date. Please RSVP to receive an email notification once it is posted.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/fratelli-tutti-social-solidarity-from-several-points-of-view/
CATEGORIES:Church,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T130000
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CREATED:20210308T201948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T160509Z
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SUMMARY:Rage & Hope: 75 Prayers for a Better World
DESCRIPTION:Join the three past leaders of Christian Aid in conversation with current CEO Amanda Khozi Mukwashi to mark the launch of Rage & Hope: 75 Prayers for a Better World – a new book to mark Christian Aid’s 75th anniversary. \nThe book launch event\, which takes place on Wednesday\, 10 March\, will also feature an opening reflection on poverty and justice by Dr Rowan Williams\, Christian Aid’s chair and the former Archbishop of Canterbury. \n\n\n\n\nCommemorating 75 years of Christian Aid\, the new publication is a prayer book like no other. Full of defiance and determination\, it is an invitation to join Christian Aid and followers of Jesus around the world in a united chorus of Rage and Hope. \nBringing together voices from different contexts and cultures around the world\, this is a collection of prayers of lament for the injustices of the world\, and prayers of hope for the world we want to see. With a foreword from Walter Brueggemann\, one of the world’s leading theologians\, it also features contributions from writer Rhidian Brook\, Professor Robert Beckford\, John Bell\, Bishop Rachel Treweek and Bishop Paul Butler. \nThe world is broken\, full of injustice and inequality\, but despite everything\, we hope.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/rage-hope-75-prayers-for-a-better-world/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Imagining the Future,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T130000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210225T171854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T160722Z
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SUMMARY:Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age
DESCRIPTION:Parents naturally worry about the future. They want to prepare their children to compete in an uncertain world. But often\, argues political philosopher and father of three Matt Feeney\, today’s worried parents surrender their family’s autonomy to gain a leg up in this competition. \nIn the American ideal\, family life is a sacred and private sphere\, distinct from the outside world. But in our hypercompetitive times\, Feeney shows\, parents have become increasingly willing to let the inner life of the family be colonized by outside forces that promise better futures for their kids: prestigious preschools\, “educational” technologies\, youth sports leagues\, a multitude of enrichment activities\, and — most of all — college. A provocative\, eye-opening book for any parent who suspects their kids’ stuffed schedules are not serving their best interests\, Little Platoons (Basic Books; March 9\, 2021) calls us to rediscover the distinctive\, profound solidarity of family life. \nFeeney joins Capita in conversation on March 9th at 12 pm.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/little-platoons-a-defense-of-family-in-a-competitive-age/
CATEGORIES:Education,Family,Imagining the Future
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T120334
CREATED:20210301T183215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T160634Z
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SUMMARY:Education\, Enhancement\, and the Pursuit of the Good
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 5 as we welcome Dr. David Lewin who will give the lecture “Education\, Enhancement\, and the Pursuit of the Good.” \nDr. Lewin will examine the intersection between education\, technology and religion by considering what kinds of human improvement are ethically justified\, and how they are justified. Dr. Lewin observes that within discussions of technological human enhancement\, ethical questions can’t be restricted to the ends of human improvement\, as though the means to those ends are neutral. Rather\, there is an ethical demand for both a vision of what it means to be human\, and how that vision should be realised. General notions of improvement or enhancement suggest an ethical discontinuity between acceptable and unacceptable means of improvement: conventional forms of human enhancement\, specifically through education are considered ethically acceptable\, even demanded\, while unconventional means of human enhancement\, for instance\, drugs\, gene therapies or neural implants\, are often considered ethically problematic or unacceptable. Dr. Lewin will explore the ethical continuities and discontinuities between conventional and unconventional forms of enhancement asking how\, in the end\, we can make a distinction between what we regard as conventional or unconventional in the field of enhancement\, and whether the means of enhancement could ever be regarded as neutrally serving ethical ends. The implication that means of enhancement carry with them ethical demands is elaborated in relation to human flourishing through educational formation. Thus\, Dr. Lewin will show that our educational traditions offer important insights into how human flourishing can be realised. \nDr. David Lewin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at Strathclyde University. His research focuses on the intersections between philosophy of education\, philosophy of religion and philosophy of technology. He is author of Technology and the Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge Scholars 2011) and has co-edited (with Todd Mei) From Ricoeur to Action: the Socio-Political Significance of Ricoeur’s Thinking (Continuum 2012) and (with Alexandre Guilherme and Morgan White) New Perspectives in Philosophy of Education (Bloomsbury 2014) as well as numerous articles and chapters. He has recently published Educational Philosophy for a Post-secular Age (Routledge 2016) and co-edited (with Simon Podmore and Duane Williams) Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy: Interchange in the Wake of God(Routledge 2017).
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/education-enhancement-and-the-pursuit-of-the-good/
CATEGORIES:Education,Imagining the Future,Science,Technology
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SUMMARY:Covid\, the Courts\, and Religious Liberty
DESCRIPTION:Because of the Covid pandemic\, many jurisdictions have placed limits on religious worship. Protests that such limits infringe on the religious liberty guarantees of the First Amendment have reached the Supreme Court. What are the permissible limits on religious worship? How can we expect the Supreme Court to rule before its terms ends in June? \nJoin William Saunders\, J.D.\, director of the IHE M.A. Program in Human Rights\, and Mark Rienzi\, president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty\, for a Faith & Law Friday Forum on the pandemic\, religious liberty\, and the courts. \nMark Rienzi is Professor at The Catholic University of America\, Columbus School of Law\, and President of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He teaches constitutional law\, religious liberty\, torts\, and evidence. He has been voted Teacher of the Year three years in a row\, and he is widely published\, including in the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Rienzi is Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Columbus School of Law. He has broad experience litigating First Amendment cases and represented the winning parties in a variety of Supreme Court First Amendment cases\, including Hobby Lobby\, Wheaton College\, and Holt. Mr. Rienzi and his colleagues at Becket won several important religious liberty cases at the Supreme Court in the past year\, including Our Lady of Guadalupe\, Little Sisters of the Poor\, and Agudath v. Cuomo. \nWilliam Saunders\, J.D.\, is the director of the IHE’s M.A. in Human Rights Program at the Catholic University of America. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School\, who has been involved in issues of public policy\, law and ethics for thirty years. A regular columnist for the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly\, Mr. Saunders has written and spoken widely on these topics. Mr. Saunders works closely with Chinese dissident and CUA Distinguished Fellow\, Chen Guangcheng\, on human rights issues\, and he is co-director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Columbus School of Law. His new book\, Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases Under Scrutiny\, was published in 2019.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/covid-the-courts-and-religious-liberty/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:The White Rose
DESCRIPTION:View recording of this past event.\n__________________________________________________ \nYesterday marked the 78th anniversary of the deaths of Nazi resisters Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst\, executed by the Third Reich in 1943. Next week\, join us online to remember them and celebrate the launch of a new graphic novel telling their story. \nAs core members of the student group The White Rose\, these young people were decidedly antifascist. But their convictions were\, in many ways\, quite distinct from most who claim the antifa label today. Devout Christians and passionate German patriots\, they wrote and distributed a series of leaflets which sought to arouse Germans’ cultural memory and conscience\, quoting Schiller\, Goethe\, Aristotle\, and Novalis. \nOn March 4 at 7:30 PM ET\, join Maximilian Probst\, Christoph’s grandson; the philosopher Dr. Jennifer Frey of the University of South Carolina; activist Aimee Murphy of Rehumanize International; and youth educator Lisabeth Button for an online conversation to launch Freiheit!\, Plough’s new graphic novel about the lives and deaths of the White Rose members. Plough Senior Editor Susannah Black will moderate.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-white-rose/
CATEGORIES:Learning From the Past,Politics
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