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SUMMARY:Livestream : Hilbilly Tourism: Flannery O'Connor's Vision of Grace
DESCRIPTION:The Thomistic Institute and the Catholic Information Center present a livestreamed lecture with Prof. Jennifer Frey of the University of South Carolina titled “Hillbilly Thomism: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace.” \nThis lecture will be livestreamed through YouTube\, Facebook\, and Zoom. \nAbout the Speaker\nJennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000\, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer’s research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy\, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants\, including coa 2.1 million dollar project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation\, titled “Virtue\, Happiness\, and Meaning in Life.” She is currently at work on three separate book projects.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/livestream-hilbilly-tourism-flannery-oconnors-vision-of-grace/
CATEGORIES:Art,Learning From the Past
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SUMMARY:Between Pandemic and Protest: Exploring the Future of Liberal Arts in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education\, presenting a cliff made still taller by a powerful protest movement. Both events have intensified pressures long squeezing the survival of the liberal arts as a viable educational model\, highlighting both the urgency and the elusiveness of moral formation in a twenty-first century education. How might those invested in preserving the liberal arts proceed? Might this year in all its drama present a tipping point for good? \nOn Monday\, October 5 at 7:00 p.m. ET\, join us for a roundtable conversation on the enduring value of the liberal arts as we consider our society beyond 2020. \n  \nFrancis Su Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics\, Harvey Mudd College \nJeffrey Bilbro Associate Professor of English\,Editor-in-Chief of Front Porch Republic \nJessica Hooten Wilson Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence\, University of Dallas \nAnne SnyderEditor-in-Chief ofBreaking Ground andComment Magazine \nDavid Henreckson Director\, Leadership and Service\, Valparaiso University
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/between-pandemic-and-protest-exploring-the-future-of-liberal-arts-in-higher-education/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Education,Imagining the Future
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T123000
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SUMMARY:Brothers and Sisters All: Pope Francis’ New Encyclical on Human Fraternity and Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:This dialogue with a distinguished group of leaders will address the themes of Pope Francis’ new encyclical Fratelli Tutti and the letter’s call to recognize that we are all brothers and sisters at a time of a global pandemic\, economic crises\, and a United States presidential election.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/brothers-and-sisters-all-pope-francis-new-encyclical-on-human-fraternity-and-solidarity/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T120000
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SUMMARY:Augustine's vision for Christians and society: a reset for fraught times?
DESCRIPTION:Injustice and unrest proliferate. Divided society crumbles amid unsolvable challenges. Alienation and fear perennially prosper… again. In 410 AD\, Romans faced to them what was the unthinkable when Goths sacked their ‘eternal city\,’ Turmoil abounded – pagans blamed Christians for their ‘Christian times\,’ Christians roiled to dismay asked why God had allowed catastrophe. Both believed Rome to be exceptional. Augustine waded into this angst and toxic mix with his City of God. It challenged the mythic ideas and misplaced loyalties of both the pagans and the Christians\, offering a vision of society that might prove sage in our own fraught times. \nAfter the lecture\, there will be a chance to hear briefly about opportunities for coming to Oxford virtually and in person.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/augustines-vision-for-christians-and-society-a-reset-for-fraught-times/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Learning From the Past
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SUMMARY:Breaking Bread with the Dead\, with Alan Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome back to an Online Conversation Distinguished Professor Alan Jacobs to discuss his recently released book Breaking Bread with the Dead: a Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind. Jacobs will encourage us to engage with voices of the past to gain wisdom for the present. \nJacobs says\, “this is precisely the kind of moment when we need to take some time to step back from the fire hose of alarming news. As we try to manage our dispositions\, we need two things. First\, we need perspective; second\, we need tranquility. And it’s voices from the past that can give us both—even when they say things we don’t want to hear\, and when those voices belong to people who have done bad things. These figures from the past are willing to speak to us when we are willing to listen. They may sometimes speak words of offense\, but they may also speak words of wisdom that we either never knew or have forgotten.” \nWe hope you will join us for this conversation considering the virtues of interrogating the writings of the wise and pursuing a tranquil mind through reading.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/breaking-bread-with-the-dead-with-alan-jacobs/
CATEGORIES:Education,Learning From the Past,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:"Sister of the Four" – a play
DESCRIPTION:“Sister of the Four” – a play\n\nWatch online the world premiere of a new two-act COVID-themed play by Eugene Vodolazkin\, the author of Laurus. Witty and Kafka-esque\, this is at least the beginning of an answer to the question of “What effect will COVID have on literature?”
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/sister-of-the-four-a-play/
CATEGORIES:Art,COVID-19,Imagining the Future
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SUMMARY:Ideas that Matter: The Black Experience in Biblical Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Ideas That Matter is an online lecture series hosted by Regent College this fall with the purpose of cultivating theological engagement with contemporary issues that are particularly relevant at this cultural moment. \nHow does our cultural lens impact the way we read scripture? What can the contemporary church learn from Bible interpretation within Black communities? Please join us as Regent College and the Regent College Bookstore welcome Dr. Lisa Bowens and Dr. Esau McCaulley\, provocative authors and speakers who are giving thought to these important questions.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/ideas-that-matter-the-black-experience-in-biblical-interpretation/
CATEGORIES:Church,Learning From the Past,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Faith and Politics: Justice\, Mercy\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Meet Shadi Hamid\, Ross Douthat\, Jacqueline Rivers\, John Huleatt and Peter Mommsen. \nQuestions of justice should matter deeply to all people of faith. But what is the relationship between divine law and human laws\, and what role\, if any\, does the state have in these questions? Join our online panel discussion with Shadi Hamid\, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution; New York Times columnist Ross Douthat; Jacqueline Rivers\, executive director of the Seymour Institute; and John Huleatt\, general counsel of the Bruderhof. Plough’s editor-in-chief\, Peter Mommsen\, will moderate. We’ll be discussing Plough Quarterly’s Spring issue\, Faith and Politics\, an online and print foray into the bigger questions we need to ask ourselves in a contentious election year. \nThis online event is hosted by Plough\, and co-sponsored by The Seymour Institute\, The Brookings Institution\, and Breaking Ground. Please sign up here to view on YouTube.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/faith-and-politics-justice-mercy-and-the-state/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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