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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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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 17 speaker: Dr. Paul Pribbenow\, President of Augsburg University in Minneapolis\, MN and a Trustee of LF’s Colangelo Carpenter Innovation Center.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/traditioned-innovation-a-leadership-foundations-town-hall-series-3/
CATEGORIES:Community,Imagining the Future
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T113500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T121500
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SUMMARY:2021 Sankofa Black Alumni Preaching Series #3
DESCRIPTION:Feb. 16 Speaker: Rev. Raymonda Speller \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/
CATEGORIES:Church,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T180000
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CREATED:20210211T135946Z
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SUMMARY:Hope Always Surprises Me
DESCRIPTION:Stories of new beginnings with Mikel Azurmendi\, sociologist\, Carolina Brito\, school principal\, Fr. Dustin Feddon\, founder of Joseph House\, Matthew Laracy\, founder of the Magnificat Home\, Juan Tapia-Mendoza\, founder of Pediatrics 2000 and member of SOMOS Community Care\, and Gabriel Tunage-Cooper\, resident at Joseph House\, followed by concluding remarks by Julián Carrón\, president of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation\nIs it reasonable to hope when we look back at 2020\, with all its hardships\, uncertainty\, injustice\, divisions? Yes\, if we recognize that the radical neediness we experienced revealed an expectancy\, which expresses itself as the desire to keep walking. Even in the worst suffering\, even in deepest pain\, something in us looks forward. Deep inside us\, there is inscribed the promise of a better future. Fr. Giussani once said\, “Reality\, as it emerges in experience\, is so positive that it presents itself as inexorably appealing. Instead of appealing\, we might use another word … promising.” Speakers in our last event will share stories of new beginnings.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/hope-always-surprises-me/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210214T140000
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SUMMARY:A Desperate Cry for Justice
DESCRIPTION:Seeking a truly human path to racial justice with Anika Prather\, professor\, Howard University\, Eugene Rivers\, Pentecostal minister\, and Jacqueline Rivers\, director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies\, moderated by Jonathan Liedl\, journalist\nMany people in the US today are seeking ways to heal the wounds of racism and move forward. However\, this requires traveling a narrow road between two cliffs. On the one side\, there is the danger of denying or ignoring both the past and present racial injustice in our country. On the other side\, there is the temptation of reducing all our human experience to a matter of power\, which inevitably perpetuates violence. Speakers will share their experience of traveling this narrow road\, and also of opening the way for others.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/a-desperate-cry-for-justice/
CATEGORIES:Education,Justice,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T210000
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SUMMARY:When You Hit Reality
DESCRIPTION:A roast of 2020 with comedians Vince Fabra\, Jeremy McLellan\, and Tom Shillue\, and special guests Jeannie Gaffigan and Greg Iwinski\, Emmy-nominated comedy writers\, with music intermission by Andrea Domenici\nHow can we joke about anything after 2020\, a year that contained so much suffering and frustration? What does it mean to laugh in the face of hardship? \nLiving through 2020\, we experienced life as dramatic\, intense\, and often heartbreaking. Yet at certain points—while donning a mask before walking into a convenience store\, gazing adoringly at our stockpile of toilet paper\, or scrambling to re-learn algebra one day ahead of a struggling 8th grader—we realized that life could also be absurd. \nSaturday night of the Encounter will feature a roast of 2020\, a moment to revel in the absurdity of certain situations and take joy in the glimmers of light of a difficult year.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/when-you-hit-reality/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T180000
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SUMMARY:Defenseless?
DESCRIPTION:A conversation on the power of big tech corporations\, free information\, and social media censorship with Matt Stoller\, director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project and a visiting lecturer in the Department of History at Columbia University\, and Matthew Taibbi\, author\, journalist\, and podcaster\, moderated by Brandon Vaidyanathan\, chair of the Department of Sociology\, Catholic University of America\nToday\, more than ever\, large corporations are exercising forms of power that traditionally were the monopoly of the state. In particular\, big tech companies control the flow of news and information and have power of censorship over what gets published or broadcast (e.g.\, Facebook’s and Twitter’s censorship of politically undesirable news\, Amazon’s ability to marginalize books\, etc.). Ultimately\, no matter which side of the political spectrum one belongs to\, what is at stake is democracy itself and\, at a deeper level\, free conscience and individual liberty. Speakers will address these dramatic issues and what can be done\, if anything\, to protect these essential aspects of our individual and social life.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/defenseless/
CATEGORIES:Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T140000
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SUMMARY:The Core of Our Humanity
DESCRIPTION:An online dialogue on the Encounter theme with Paolo Carozza\, professor of Law and Director of Kellogg Institute for International Studies\, the University of Notre Dame\, and Charles Taylor\, philosopher and professor emeritus\, McGill University\nThe events of the past months have shattered our illusion of control and humbled pride. Have they also revealed something of value in our humanity which we were neglecting? And\, as Stephanie Zacharek asked in her article in the special issue of Time dedicated to the year 2020\, “After a year of so many changes\, will we change radically too? We learned a lot in 2020–but what\, exactly\, did we learn?” \nPaolo Carozza will dialogue on these questions\, and delve into the Encounter 2021 theme\, with world renowned philosopher Charles Taylor.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-core-of-our-humanity/
CATEGORIES:Education,Justice,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210213T120000
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SUMMARY:Not By Profit Alone
DESCRIPTION:Online conversation on rethinking work\, business\, and economy in a post-Covid world\, with Raghuram Rajan\, the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance\, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business\, Ratna Sahay\, deputy director\, Monetary and Capital Markets Department\, International Monetary Fund\, and Stefano Zamagni\, professor of Economics\, University of Bologna and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences\, moderated by Anujeet Sareen\, portfolio manager\, Brandywine Global\nWhich are the lessons to be learned from the pandemic for economists\, financial operators\, international institutions\, and small and big businesses? What to expect in the short and long term in the job market and in the economy? How should the economy change in the wake of COVID and what can bring about that change? Do we need new economic models or a new vision? Speakers will discuss the above questions.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/not-by-profit-alone/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Imagining the Future
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210212T163000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071931
CREATED:20210104T170705Z
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SUMMARY:Who Am I? Personhood\, 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\,  February 12 as Regent’s Dr. Jens Zimmermann will give the lecture “Who am I? Personhood\, Technology\, and Human Flourishing.” \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Zimmermann will address modern understandings of human consciousness\, including Trans- and Post- humanist visions for the future of human society\, and will argue that contemporary notions of the human person presume a reductive model of human identity rooted in an already defunct scientific epistemology. As a counterpoint to this construction\, Dr. Zimmermann will offer a robust model of human consciousness that is grounded in the philosophically and theologically informed theory of personalism—a personalism that\, in the Christian tradition\, is validated in and through the Incarnation. \nDr. Jens Zimmermann is J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College/UBC and Research Associate at the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought (CTMET) in Oxford. As a philosophical theologian\, Dr. Zimmermann’s main intellectual interests are philosophical anthropology (who we are) and epistemology (how we know). He has pursued these two central questions across a broad range of interests that include theological anthropology\, patristic and modern theology\, hermeneutics (theological and philosophical)\, European literature\, Martin Heidegger\, Hans-Georg Gadamer\, Dietrich Bonhoeffer\, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. In addition to many scholarly articles\, Zimmermann has authored and edited numerous books\, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christian Humanism (Oxford UP\, 2019)\, and Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism: Education and the Restoration of Humanity (Oxford UP\, 2017). Recent editing work includes Acts of Interpretation: Scripture\, Theology\, and Culture (co-edited with S. A. Cummins\, Eerdmans\, 2018)\, and Sources of the Christian Self: A Cultural History of Christian Identity (co-edited with James Houston\, Eerdmans\, 2018). Zimmermann’s current major research project examines the impact of technology on human identity with particular focus on the concept of personhood.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/who-am-i-personhood-technology-and-human-flourishing/
CATEGORIES:Introspection,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210215
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SUMMARY:New York Encounter 2021: When Reality Hits
DESCRIPTION:Broadcast live from New York City\nAvailable online to everyone\, wherever you are \nAn annual three-day public cultural event in the heart of New York City\, offering opportunities for education\, dialogue\, and friendship\nThe 2021 edition will be online\, available to everyone. All conferences and performances will be broadcast live from New York City and visible on the Encounter YouTube channel. So\, the Encounter can happen where you are! And you can also build it with us by sharing the Encounter YouTube channel link with family\, friends\, and coworkers.\nWhen February comes\, if local regulations allow\, we may even organize small gatherings where the Encounter events can be publicly shown\, followed by informal discussions. If that happens\, a list of these local gatherings will be posted on our website\, so please check if you’d like to join one near you!
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/when-reality-hits/
CATEGORIES:Church,Education,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210211T200000
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SUMMARY:The Reunited States: Red & Blue Carpet Premiere
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of lively discussion\, special experiences and surprise guests to celebrate the launch of this timely documentary about bridging divides.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-reunited-states-red-blue-carpet-premiere/
CATEGORIES:Imagining the Future,Introspection,Justice,Politics,Race
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210211T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210211T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T163316Z
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SUMMARY:Caring for Loved Ones During a Pandemic
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/caring-for-loved-ones-during-a-pandemic/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Family,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210210T100000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071931
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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 10 speaker: Rev. Jen Bailey\, Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network. Jen was named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress\, is an ordained minister\, public theologian\, and national leader in the multi-faith movement for justice.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/traditioned-innovation-a-leadership-foundations-town-hall-series-2/
CATEGORIES:Imagining the Future,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210209T113500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210209T121500
DTSTAMP:20260504T071931
CREATED:20210104T173808Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Sankofa Black Alumni Preaching Series #2
DESCRIPTION:Feb. 9 Speaker: Rev. Camille Glover \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-2/
CATEGORIES:Church,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210205T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210205T163000
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SUMMARY:Being Human in a Technological World: Pointers from Patristic Anthropology
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\, February 5 as we welcome Very Rev. Dr. John Behr who will give the lecture “Being Human in a Technological World: Pointers from Patristic Anthropology.” \nIn this lecture\, Father Behr will examine what challenges the erasure of death from the horizon of sight in the modern Western world raises for our understanding of ourselves as embodied human beings. As Hervé Juvin notes in the last lines of his study\, The Coming of the Body (2010)\, which examines the various ways in which our experience of embodiment has changed over the last century: ‘Alone\, the body remembers that it is finite; alone it roots us in the limits\, our last frontier (for how long?); and even if—especially if—it forgets\, the body alone still prevents us from being God to ourselves and others.’ Bringing together insights from Martha Nussbaum (‘Transcending Humanity’) and his own recent work on the Gospel of John and the theology of Irenaeus\, Behr will argue that the technological advances of the past century provide a unique\, and precious\, opportunity for us to recognize the important connection between mortality\, being human\, and the incarnation of God. \nVery Rev. Dr. John Behr is Professor of Patristics\, teaching courses in patristics\, dogmatics and scriptural exegesis at St. Vladimir’s Seminary\, and also at Fordham University\, where he is the Distinguished Lecturer in Patristics. After completing his first degree in Philosophy in London in 1987\, Fr. John spent a year studying in Greece. He finished an M.Phil. in Eastern Christian Studies at Oxford University\, under Bishop Kallistos (Ware)\, who subsequently supervised his doctoral work\, which was examined by Fr. Andrew Louth and Rowan Williams\, now Archbishop of Canterbury. While working on his doctorate\, he was invited to be a Visiting Lecturer at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in 1993\, where he has been a permanent faculty member since 1995\, tenured in 2000\, and ordained in 2001. He served as Dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary from 2007 to 2017\, and in 2016 he was also appointed as the first (part-time) holder of the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. His published works include The Way to Nicaea (SVS Press 2001)\, The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death (SVS Press 2006)\, and Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press 2013).
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/being-human-in-a-technological-world-pointers-from-patristic-anthropology/
CATEGORIES:Imagining the Future,Learning From the Past,Technology
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SUMMARY:Human Flourishing in a Technological Age: A Christian Perspective
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\, February 5 as we welcome Very Rev. Dr. John Behr who will give the lecture “Being Human in a Technological World: Pointers from Patristic Anthropology.” \nIn this lecture\, Father Behr will examine what challenges the erasure of death from the horizon of sight in the modern Western world raises for our understanding of ourselves as embodied human beings. As Hervé Juvin notes in the last lines of his study\, The Coming of the Body (2010)\, which examines the various ways in which our experience of embodiment has changed over the last century: ‘Alone\, the body remembers that it is finite; alone it roots us in the limits\, our last frontier (for how long?); and even if—especially if—it forgets\, the body alone still prevents us from being God to ourselves and others.’ Bringing together insights from Martha Nussbaum (‘Transcending Humanity’) and his own recent work on the Gospel of John and the theology of Irenaeus\, Behr will argue that the technological advances of the past century provide a unique\, and precious\, opportunity for us to recognize the important connection between mortality\, being human\, and the incarnation of God. \nVery Rev. Dr. John Behr is Professor of Patristics\, teaching courses in patristics\, dogmatics and scriptural exegesis at St. Vladimir’s Seminary\, and also at Fordham University\, where he is the Distinguished Lecturer in Patristics. After completing his first degree in Philosophy in London in 1987\, Fr. John spent a year studying in Greece. He finished an M.Phil. in Eastern Christian Studies at Oxford University\, under Bishop Kallistos (Ware)\, who subsequently supervised his doctoral work\, which was examined by Fr. Andrew Louth and Rowan Williams\, Archbishop of Canterbury. While working on his doctorate\, he was invited to be a Visiting Lecturer at St. Vladimir’s Seminary in 1993\, where he has been a permanent faculty member since 1995\, tenured in 2000\, and ordained in 2001. He served as Dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary from 2007 to 2017\, and in 2016 he was also appointed as the first (part-time) holder of the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. His published works include The Way to Nicaea (SVS Press 2001)\, The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death (SVS Press 2006)\, and Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image (SVS Press 2013).
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/human-flourishing-in-a-technological-age-a-christian-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Church,Seeing Clearly and Deeply,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210204T190000
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SUMMARY:The Reunited States
DESCRIPTION:There has been much talk about our divisions these last few years\, but few have ventured to explore what healing them might require. What\, actually\, is unity? What isn’t it? Does repairing our commons require a papering over of difference\, or do we actually need to get better at truth-telling\, and\, perhaps paradoxically\, at disagreement? How do we see ourselves—as citizens\, as individual moral agents—in the calculus of belonging to history\, inheriting it and joining long currents of redeeming it? \nPlease join us in watching a film that brings these questions to life\, The Reunited States. The film follows several individuals: Susan Bro\, who lost her daughter in the deadly Charlottesville protests of August 2017; Erin and Dave Leaverton\, a white Christian couple who decided to travel in an RV to all fifty states to understand the origins and nature of our fault lines; Greg Orman\, who ran for governor of Kansas as an independent and wants to shake up our binary dysfunction; and Steven Olikara\, whose Millennial Action Project is attempting to seed a future of friendship and cooperation across the political divide. Through their interwoven narratives\, you will at once recognize our distressed tectonics and find welcome in an invitation to risk. \nWatch the trailer here to get a taste\, and then access a virtual screening room via the link below. (Please note that only the first 150 people to access the virtual screening room will be able to watch the film\, though anyone is welcome to join us for the panel discussion on Thursday! After you’ve registered for the panel discussion\, a link and password to the virtual screening room will be sent in your confirmation email.)
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-reunited-states/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Politics,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210203T100000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071932
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T124645Z
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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 3 speaker: Rev. Dr. Julia Fogg\, Professor of Religion at Cal Lutheran University and author of Finding Jesus at the Border.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/traditioned-innovation-a-leadership-foundations-town-hall-series/
CATEGORIES:Imagining the Future,Introspection,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210202T113500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210202T121500
DTSTAMP:20260504T071932
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T124716Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Sankofa Black Alumni Preaching Series #1
DESCRIPTION:Feb. 2 Speaker: Rev. Dustin Pickett \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-1/
CATEGORIES:Church,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210201T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210201T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071932
CREATED:20210201T160019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T124818Z
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SUMMARY:President Biden\, U.S. Bishops\, and Pope Francis: How to Promote Catholic Principles in a Divided Church and Nation
DESCRIPTION:Last Wednesday\, President Joe Biden\, the second Catholic president in U.S. history\, began Inauguration Day at Mass with his family and the nation’s leaders at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington\, DC. Just after the swearing in\, Pope Francis sent a brief message of congratulations\, blessings\, and prayers that Biden’s “decisions will be guided by…unfailing respect for the rights and dignity of every person\, especially the poor\, the vulnerable\, and those who have no voice.” At about the same time\, Archbishop José Gomez\, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)\, released a lengthy statement offering prayers\, saying “it will be refreshing to engage with a President who clearly understands\, in a deep and personal way\, the importance of religious faith and institutions\,” and also warning that Biden “has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity….” \nAs Inauguration Day progressed\, there were reports of divisions between the U.S. bishops and Pope Francis and among the U.S. bishops on how to assess and work with a Catholic president with Biden’s faith\, history\, and policy commitments. Since then\, the USCCB has issued statements commending Biden’s executive actions on DACA\, immigration reform\, ending the “Muslim ban\,” and rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change; statements have also been made opposing Biden’s executive order on employment\, LGBTQ\, and gender issues\, as well as his statement on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. All this has generated considerable commentary\, controversy\, concern\, and confusion. \nThe Initiative is bringing together several respected leaders to examine the context and content of these developments and explore challenges and opportunities in the relationship between President Biden and the leaders of the Catholic Church. The panelists will explore: \n\n\nWhat difference does Biden’s Catholicism make at the White House? How does it affect his policies\, priorities\, speeches\, and activities?\nWhat are the implications\, lessons\, and possible future directions in light of this complicated and controversial moment\, where an active\, visible Catholic has both areas of strong agreement on several principles of Catholic social teaching and strong disagreement with Catholic teaching on the critical issue of abortion and other moral questions?\nWhat are the principles and priorities which should shape the interaction between the Biden White House\, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\, and the Vatican? What are areas for collaboration and for conflict? Can differences in priorities\, tone\, substance\, and approach be reconciled?\nSome question President Biden’s faith\, and even his suitability to receive communion. Others question the U.S. bishops’ roles\, words\, and actions. What principles\, practices\, and criteria should guide the relationship between this Catholic president and the ordained leadership of the Catholic Church? How do those translate into a principled\, effective working relationship between the USCCB and the Biden administration?\nWhat are the responsibilities of lay Catholics and other Catholic institutions\, other religious leaders\, and public officials in this current moment?\n\nKim Daniels\, co-director of the Initiative\, will introduce and moderate the dialogue. Kim is also a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. \nThis dialogue will have closed captions. For all other accommodation requests\, please email cathsocialthought@georgetown.edu by January 29. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/president-biden-u-s-bishops-and-pope-francis-how-to-promote-catholic-principles-in-a-divided-church-and-nation/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Politics,Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210129T133000
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SUMMARY:Art + Faith: A Theology of Making// An Online Conversation with Makoto Fujimura
DESCRIPTION:On January 29 in partnership with The Rabbit Room and Windrider Productions we are delighted to host artist\, author\, and senior fellow Mako Fujimura for a conversation around his brand new book\, Art + Faith: A Theology of Making. Mako believes that in the act of making we are able to know and experience the depth of God’s being and grace. \nMako says\, “I now consider what I do in the studio to be theological work as much as aesthetic work. I experience God\, my Maker\, in the studio. I am immersed in the art of creating\, and I have come to understand this dimension of life as the most profound way of grasping human experience and the nature of our existence in the world. I call it the “Theology of Making.” \nWe hope you will join us as we explore the theological work of creating. \nSpecial thanks to this event’s sponsors:\nDoug Wilson\nLarry and Betsy Roadman\nWindrider Productions
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/art-faith-a-theology-of-making-an-online-conversation-with-makoto-fujimura/
CATEGORIES:Art,Church,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210128T163000
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SUMMARY:Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
DESCRIPTION:Ideas That Matter is an online lecture series hosted by Regent College this academic year with the purpose of cultivating theological engagement with contemporary issues that are particularly relevant at this cultural moment. \nRegent College and the Regent College Bookstore are excited to welcome Rev. Tish Harrison Warren for the launch of her new book\, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep. In this book\, Rev. Warren addresses the question: How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline\, Prayer in the Night explores themes of human vulnerability\, suffering\, and God’s seeming absence. During this timely conversation\, Rev. Warren will be discussing her new book as well as reflecting on the role of spiritual disciplines to keep us anchored to Jesus when the world seems upside down. \nTish Harrison Warren is a priest in the Anglican Church in North America. She has worked in ministry settings for over a decade as a campus minister with InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries\, as an associate rector\, and with addicts and those in poverty through various churches and non-profit organizations. Rev. Warren is is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life\, which was Christianity Today’s 2018 Book of the Year. Her articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times\, Religion News Service\, Christianity Today\, Comment Magazine\, The Point\, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of The Pelican Project and a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum. She lives with her husband and three children in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. \nA livestream link will be posted here the week of the event.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/prayer-in-the-night-for-those-who-work-or-watch-or-weep/
CATEGORIES:Church,Education,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T100000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071932
CREATED:20210125T180352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T125119Z
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SUMMARY:Town Halls on "Traditioned Innovation"
DESCRIPTION:Author Richard Beck will be in conversation with Cornelius Williams as we explore how we can renew traditions and practices from the past in order to improve on the present and make progress towards the future. \nDr. Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of Unclean and The Authenticity of Faith. He also writes about the intersections of psychology and theology at his popular and award-winning blog Experimental Theology. \nWe will also be joined by Courtney Dugstad\, Executive Director of Next Chapter Ministries\, the Leadership Foundation in Rochester\, MN to share the incredible work they are doing in their city to eradicate crime through holistic ministry including mentoring\, re-entry programs\, and housing.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/town-halls-on-traditioned-innovation/
CATEGORIES:Church,Education,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T200000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071932
CREATED:20210125T160612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T132531Z
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SUMMARY:What Is Unity?
DESCRIPTION:Join us tomorrow for a conversation about unity: How realistic is it? Exactly what is it? How we might strive toward it in ways top-down and bottom-up\, and what precisely is the good inherent within it\, if any? \nIt’s a back-to-basics era\, and we want to revisit some fundamental definitions. Helping us in this journey are Shadi Hamid\, Christine Emba\, and Samuel Kimbriel. We look forward to seeing you there! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Emba\nOp-Ed Columnist\,\nWashington Post\nShadi Hamid\nSenior Fellow\,\nBrookings Institution\nSamuel Kimbriel\nAuthor &\nPolitical Philosopher
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/unity/
CATEGORIES:Community,Imagining the Future,Justice,Politics,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210126T140000
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SUMMARY:Dependence: An Online Conversation
DESCRIPTION:No man or woman is an island\, and no one should aspire to be one\, either. \nIn the new issue of Plough Quarterly “What Are Families For?”  Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we are never truly completely autonomous and that we need a re-appreciation of weakness. In this online launch event\, join Leah as she discusses her article “Dependence: Towards an Illiberalism of the Weak” with Noah van Niel\, Atar Hadari and Peter Mommsen. \nSign up here to join them as they discuss these topics on Tuesday\, 26 January at 7:00 PM GMT.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/dependence-an-online-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Community,Family,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T133000
DTSTAMP:20260504T071932
CREATED:20210125T163947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210522T132733Z
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SUMMARY:Division\, Decadence & Renewal: An Online Conversation with Ross Douthat
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, January 22nd in partnership with The Institute for Human Ecology\, the Harvard Christian Alumni Society\, and the Catholic Information Center\, we are delighted to welcome author and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. \nIn Douthat’s book\, The Decadent Society\, he provides an enlightening diagnosis of our modern condition which\, he says\, has been characterized by decadence. Douthat argues that many of today’s discontents and derangements reflect a sense of futility and disappointment—a feeling that the future is not what was promised. \nAlmost a year after its original publication\, we are keen to hear from Ross on what the events of the past year have revealed about our condition and how we might serve as agents of renewal in a divisive and decadent time. \nSpecial thanks to our sponsors for this event:\nThe Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America\nThe Harvard Christian Alumni Society
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/division-decadence-renewal-an-online-conversation-with-ross-douthat/
CATEGORIES:Community,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T211500
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SUMMARY:The Case for One More Child
DESCRIPTION:Our society’s future would be radically different if people just had as many kids as they desired. What’s stopping them? \nIn the new issue of Plough Quarterly\, “What are Families For?\,” Ross Douthat tackles the issue of falling birthrates across the Western world\, and makes the case that large families will save humanity. In this online launch event for our new issue\, join Ross as he discusses his article “The Case For One More Child” with Leah Libresco Sargeant\, Anna Louie Sussman\, Sarah Williams\, and Plough editor Peter Mommsen. \nSign up here to view this online event on YouTube on Thursday\, January 21 at 8:00 PM Eastern time.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-case-for-one-more-child/
CATEGORIES:Community,Family,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T130000
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SUMMARY:Facing the Anthropocene Webinar with Timothy Ingold and 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. \nTo kick off the new series on Jan. 21\, 2021\, Wirzba interviews Tim Ingold\, professor emeritus of social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Ingold has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland\, and has written on environment\, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North\, on animals in human society\, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. Wirzba 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. \nRegistration information to be announced.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/facing-the-anthropocene-webinar-with-timothy-ingold-and-norman-wirzba/
CATEGORIES:Community,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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