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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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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Letting Go: How Philanthropists and Impact Investors Can Do More Good by Giving Up Control
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Letting Go (forthcoming\, March 2021)\, Ben Wrobel and Meg Massey tell the story of a growing reform movement inside philanthropy and impact investing – and a debate about power that has the potential to shape the way we fund activists and social entrepreneurs for years to come. \nIt’s an open secret: philanthropy today is top-heavy and insular. A glance at the world’s largest foundations and impact investment funds reveals that decision-makers tend to be disproportionately white\, male\, and from backgrounds of privilege. And decisions tend to be made in a closed\, opaque way. The result is a competitive marketplace for social innovation\, and a funding environment that favors larger\, safer projects that don’t challenge the status quo. \nThis is the story of an alternative approach to funding social change: the grantmakers and investors who have chosen to “let go” by ceding decision-making power to people who have lived experience of the problem at hand. The stories range from a small business loan fund in South Boston that is entirely controlled by working-class residents\, to a foundation run by young feminist activists. \nAs this book reveals\, it’s not only possible to flip power dynamics in philanthropy and impact investing – it’s imperative in a world where inequality is reaching a breaking point. \n 
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/letting-go-how-philanthropists-and-impact-investors-can-do-more-good-by-giving-up-control/
CATEGORIES:Imagining the Future,Justice,Politics
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SUMMARY:Christian Ministry in Pandemic Times
DESCRIPTION:Interface at Regent College offers lectures\, articles and other resources that probe and preserve the relationship between theology and science—working toward healing the breach between these disciplines as they have taken shape in our late modern age. In 2020/2021\, the Interface project focuses especially on promoting the engagement with science in ministry education at Regent College. \nJoin us on March 3 for a conversation between Dr. Deborah Haarsma and Regent’s Dr. David Robinson. \nThe pandemic has dramatically increased the levels of polarization and politicization around science. The word “science” has become a weapon in the culture wars; scientists are vilified and their findings ignored\, while conspiracy theories go viral. Sadly\, these dynamics are reaching our churches and are even magnified by faith leaders.  Yet we must be discerning about science; scientists don’t always get it right and we need far more than science to make good public policy decisions. When should and shouldn’t Christians listen to science?  How can Christians bring a faithful witness to the public square?  How do we address tensions and misinformation in our churches?  Used well\, science and medicine can be gifts from God to enhance the church’s ministry in proclaiming the truth\, caring for the sick\, loving those we disagree with\, bringing hope\, and discipling the next generation. \nDr. Deborah Haarsma is President of BioLogos. She is a frequent speaker on modern science and Christian faith at research universities\, churches\, and public venues\, and her writing appears in several recent books. As a research astronomer\, Haarsma has studied galaxy clusters and the expansion of the universe using telescopes around the world and in orbit. She holds a PhD in astrophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nPrior to this conversation\, Dr. Haarsma will be giving two lectures\, the first on March 2 and the second on March 3. \nLearn more about Interface at Regent College here. \nThis event is made possible through the support of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Dialogue on Science\, Ethics\, and Religion (DoSER). Regent College is currently participating in their Science for Seminaries program.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/christian-ministry-in-pandemic-times/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,COVID-19,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:One Human Family: Christian Reflections on Racism and Science
DESCRIPTION:Interface at Regent College offers lectures\, articles and other resources that probe and preserve the relationship between theology and science—working toward healing the breach between these disciplines as they have taken shape in our late modern age. In 2020/2021\, the Interface project focuses especially on promoting the engagement with science in ministry education at Regent College. \nJoin us on March 3 as we welcome Dr. Deborah Haarsma\, who will give a lunchtime lecture titled One Human Family: Christian Reflections on Racism and Science. \nThe last year has brought front and centre the ongoing systemic racism in our culture. Many factors contribute to our racism\, and sadly\, science and medicine are a part of it.  Racial disparities in medical care and other services have caused COVID cases and deaths in the United States to be much higher among people of colour. “Science” has been misused to justify atrocities such as the Tuskegee experiments and eugenics.  But the evidence from evolutionary biology and genetics does not justify racism. While genetics reveals minor differences in geographical ancestry groups\, these genetic differences do not align with cultural racial categories such as “black\,” “Asian\,” and “white.”  In fact\, genetics shows that we are a remarkably unified species. The scriptures go further\, teaching that every person is made in the image of God and we are to love every neighbour.  Both God’s world and God’s word show us that we are one human family. \nDr. Deborah Haarsma is President of BioLogos. She is a frequent speaker on modern science and Christian faith at research universities\, churches\, and public venues\, and her writing appears in several recent books. As a research astronomer\, Haarsma has studied galaxy clusters and the expansion of the universe using telescopes around the world and in orbit. She holds a PhD in astrophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \nDr. Haarsma will be giving another lecture on Tuesday\, March 2 and participating in a conversation with Dr. David Robinson on Wednesday\, March 3. \nLearn more about Interface at Regent College here. \nThis event is made possible through the support of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Dialogue on Science\, Ethics\, and Religion (DoSER). Regent College is currently participating in their Science for Seminaries program. \nIf you would like to submit questions to Dr. Haarsma during the lecture\, please email them to questions@regent-college.edu.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/one-human-family-christian-reflections-on-racism-and-science/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Facing the Anthropocene Webinar with Janet Soskice & Norman Wirzba
DESCRIPTION:In the Facing the Anthropocene webinar series\, Duke Divinity School Professor Norman Wirzba interviews leading scholars in political economy\, history\, anthropology\, theology\, philosophy\, environmental humanities\, and law\, in order to examine the conditions under which a hopeful future might be imagined. \nIn this webinar of the series\, Wirzba interviews Janet Soskice\, the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke Divinity School. For over 30 years\, she was on the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge\, where she is professor emerita of philosophical theology. In her work\, Soskice explores philosophy of religion\, especially religious language and philosophical theology\, names for God\, gender and ethics\, and\, in her current project\, God and creation. Her books include Metaphor and Religious Language\, The Kindness of God\, and Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Lost Gospels. \nWirzba is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity and a senior fellow at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics\, which is sponsoring the webinar series.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/facing-the-anthropocene-webinar-with-janet-soskice-norman-wirzba/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Education,Imagining the Future,Justice,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Faithful Leadership: Race\, Politics\, and Evangelicalism in America
DESCRIPTION:We are living in tumultuous times and need God’s wisdom in navigating the troubles we see. Recent events have uncovered the deep divides that not only exist in our nation\, but also in the Church. Political divisions\, racial strife\, and deep polarization mark both the Church within the United States and the republic in which it exists. The CCCU’s Commission for Campus Ministry Directors has put together a conference for members of the CCCU and friends of our community to ask good questions and provide wisdom and guidance in these divided times. \nJoin Beth Moore\, Mark Labberton\, Robert Chao Romero\, Justin Giboney\, Nikki Toyama-Szeto\, Russell Moore\, Korie Edwards\, Jeff Liou\, Nathan Cartagena\, Shirley Hoogstra\, and CCCU campus ministry commissioners\, including Lisa Ishihara\, Laurel Bunker\, Raymond Chang\, Rob Fultz\, Sarah Snodgrass\, Guy Chmieleski\, and Jamie Noling-Auth\, for this virtual conference designed to equip individuals and teams to think Christianly and critically about topics like critical race theory\, Christian nationalism\, systemic racism\, and how to move forward in truth and grace.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/faithful-leadership-race-politics-and-evangelicalism-in-america/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Politics,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Traditioned Innovation: A Leadership Foundations Town Hall Series
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to bring together old and new and recover things that have always been? Make sure to register now for the new 6 part LF Town Hall series “Traditioned Innovation” beginning on January 27. We have an amazing lineup of guests joining us to examine how the knowledge of the past positions us to make progress towards the future. We will explore those ancient traditions and practices that can be rediscovered and operationalized in fresh ways as we move forward. \nFebruary 24 speaker: Father James Martin\, New York Times Best Selling Author and editor of America magazine. Martin’s books include The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life\, and My Life With the Saints. His new book Learning To Pray is out in February.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/traditioned-innovation-a-leadership-foundations-town-hall-series-4/
CATEGORIES:Community,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T120000
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SUMMARY:Building a Culture of Solidarity that Works for Mothers and Children
DESCRIPTION:The past few years have been a period of intense self-examination for America. Many of us are wondering why things seem to be falling apart\, and how we can build a society designed around solidarity and mutual care. Amidst all of these moving parts\, it’s vital that we remember to ask how mothers and children are faring in contemporary America. And as we work together to imagine a better country\, what do we owe our children\, and those who shepherd them into the world? \nPanelists: \nJennifer Banks is Senior Executive Editor at Yale University Press where she has been an editor since 2007.  A graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has also worked at International Creative Management\, Harvard University Press\, and the Continuum International Publishing Group (now Bloomsbury).  Her book Natality: Reflections on Birth is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.  She lives with her husband and three children in New England. \nLeah Libresco Sargeant is the author of two books\, Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. She runs “Other Feminisms” a substack community focused on interdependence\, not autonomy. \nAnne Snyder is the Editor-in-Chief of Comment Magazine and the host of Breaking Ground\, a collaborative web commons created in 2020 to try to inspire a dynamic cross-section of thinkers and practitioners to respond to the major crises of this year with wisdom\, hope and courage. Anne is also a 2020 Emerson Collective Fellow and the author of The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/building-a-culture-of-solidarity-that-works-for-mothers-and-children/
CATEGORIES:Community,Family,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T113500
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SUMMARY:2021 Sankofa Black Alumni Preaching Series #4
DESCRIPTION:Feb. 23 Speaker: Rev. Regina Henderson Moore \nThroughout February\, the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School will feature the 2021 Sankofa Black Alumni Preaching Series to celebrate the distinct contributions of the school’s alumni of African descent. Alumni will preach during four Tuesday worship services online from Goodson Chapel at 11:35 a.m. \nThe preachers for this year’s series are: the Rev. Dustin Pickett\, M.Div. 2016\, campus minister for Christian Diversity and Ecumenical Ministry at the University of Dayton in Dayton\, Ohio; the Rev. Camille Glover\, M.Div. 2013\, an attorney in Washington\, D.C.; the Rev. Raymonda Speller\, M.Div. 2012\, senior pastor of Community Congregational Church (UCC) in Montgomery\, Ala.; and the Rev. Regina Henderson Moore\, M.Div. 1997\, owner of the Riverside Consulting Group in Columbia\, S.C. \nThe Sankofa Black Alumni Preaching Series was established in 2014 during Black History Month. The word “sankofa” derives from the Akan language of Ghana and translates as “reach back and get it.”
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/2021-sankofa-black-alumni-preaching-series-3/
CATEGORIES:Church,Learning From the Past,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Dr. Rowan Williams on 'Theology for the Life of the Church'
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 annual Anglican Episcopal House of Studies (AEHS) Study Day at Duke Divinity School will be virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions and feature Dr. Rowan Williams\, the former archbishop of Canterbury\, speaking on “Theology for the Life of the Church.” \nThe annual Study Day offers clergy\, other ministry professionals\, and students the chance to learn and reflect on a substantial topic relating to theology and ministry. \nThis free event is open to all. Registration details will be announced soon.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/dr-rowan-williams-on-theology-for-the-life-of-the-church/
CATEGORIES:Church,Education,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210219T133000
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SUMMARY:Hope & Healing for a Hurting Culture: An Online Conversation with Jonathan Haidt & Peter Wehner
DESCRIPTION:On February 19 in partnership with Praxis Circle we are thrilled to welcome renowned social psychologist and author of the best-selling book The Righteous Mind\, Jonathan Haidt\, and New York Times columnist\, The Atlantic contributing editor\, and Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Pete Wehner. \nWe hope you will join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of hyper-politicization and polarization\, the temptations of illiberalism\, the natural tendency towards bias and blind spots in our thinking\, and the role of faith in bringing healing and hope to a hurting culture. \nSpecial thanks to our sponsors:\nPraxis Circle\nDoug & Beth Heimburger\nQuinn & Nancy Fox
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/hope-healing-for-a-hurting-culture-an-online-conversation-with-jonathan-haidt-peter-wehner/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Imagining the Future,Introspection,Politics
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Is Public Transgression Redeemable?
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation about Forgiveness and the Ethics of Cancel Culture \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\nChristine Emba\, Columnist at The Washington Post\nWillie Jennings\, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University\nSuzanne Nossel\, Chief Executive Officer at PEN America \nModerated by Sung Kwang Oh and Lizzie Bond
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/cancelled-is-public-transgression-redeemable/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Forgiveness and the Healing Practice of Communities: Science & Practice
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Dr. Robert Enright will present his groundbreaking scientific study of interpersonal forgiveness in the context of the family\, school\, workplace\, house of worship\, and world conflict zones. Scientific study has demonstrated how interpersonal forgiveness reduces the emotion of anger\, while increasing psychological well-being. \nDr. Enright’s award winning book\, “Forgiveness Therapy” (2015\, with Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons\, published by the American Psychological Association)\, describes his intervention approach. He has worked on interventions including women who have suffered discrimination\, cardiac patients\, and children in schools. He has developed ways to assess group forgiveness\, that is\, the forgiveness of one group by another. He has worked with sample populations in China and Taiwan\, North and South Ireland\, and with African-American and European-American groups. His work is just beginning to explore the role of forgiveness in the healing of communities. \nThis event is cosponsored with Divine Mercy University. \nFree and open to the public. The event will take place via Zoom webinar. For questions or accommodations\, please contact ihe@cua.edu.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/forgiveness-and-the-healing-practice-of-communities-science-practice/
CATEGORIES:Community,Introspection,Science,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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