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SUMMARY:An Online Dialogue on Killing In Our Name Federal Executions and Pro-life Witness
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe day of the discussion\, all who have RSVP’d will receive an email with a link and step-by-step instructions on how to join the livestream. \n\n\n\nAs the end of his administration approaches\, President Trump has restarted the use of the federal death penalty. Since July there have been 10 executions with another three before he leaves office. These federal executions are the first in 17 years and raise critical moral\, human\, and policy choices for the nation and a new presidential administration. \nIn the United States\, executions and death sentences have declined dramatically\, and public support for capital punishment is at historic lows. Catholic teaching against capital punishment is rooted in our recognition of the inherent dignity of each person and in the sanctity of human life. Pope John Paul II appealed for an end to the death penalty during a visit to the United States\, and Pope Benedict XVI spoke even more strongly\, calling on world leaders to “make every effort to eliminate the death penalty.” In line with his predecessors\, Pope Francis called for the abolition of the death penalty in his U.S. visit to Congress in 2015\, and in 2018 he revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church to state that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person\,” a teaching he underscored in his recent encyclical letter Fratelli Tutti. \nThis Public Dialogue\, co-sponsored by the Catholic Mobilizing Network and Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life\, will bring together a U.S. bishop\, a Christian pastor\, and two national advocates for ending capital punishment to explore how the principles of Catholic social thought can offer direction and urgency in ending the death penalty\, both in the United States and worldwide. \nParticipants: \n\nBishop Daniel Flores is the bishop of Brownsville\, Texas\, and the chair-elect of the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). He recently wrote an article in America on King Herod and America’s sinful acceptance of the death penalty.\nKrisanne Vaillancourt Murphy is the executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network\, which seeks to end the use of the death penalty in the United States and promotes restorative justice. She has over 25 years of experience working in national level\, faith-based policy advocacy and is co-author of Advocating for Justice: An Evangelical Vision for Transforming Systems and Structures (2016).\nSr. Helen Prejean\, CSJ\, is a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty and has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions. She is the author of Dead Man Walking (1994)\, The Death of Innocents (2004)\, and River of Fire (2019).\nRev. Dr. Jack Sullivan\, Jr. is the executive director of the Ohio Council of Churches and is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Rev. Sullivan’s sister was murdered in 1997\, yet his family rejects the use of the death penalty for the person responsible. He is a nationally known speaker\, social justice advocate\, and death penalty opponent.\n\nJohn Carr\, director of the Initiative\, will moderate the dialogue. \nThis dialogue will have closed captions. For all other accommodation requests\, please email cathsocialthought@georgetown.edu by January 7. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. \nThis online Public Dialogue is co-sponsored by the Catholic Mobilizing Network and the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/an-online-dialogue-on-killing-in-our-name-federal-executions-and-pro-life-witness/
CATEGORIES:Community,Learning From the Past,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Economic Inequality and Church Responses in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Theos’ Simon Perfect will discuss his new report\, which calls for churches to become vocal champions of greater economic equality. \nThe UK\, along with the rest of the world\, faces an unprecedented economic crisis due to the COVID–19 pandemic. The spread of the coronavirus is exacerbating deep inequalities\, hitting the poorest the hardest. The UK already has one of the highest levels of income inequality in Europe\, with the top 20% of households receiving nearly half of all disposable household income; and this is likely to get worse in the coming years.[1] As we look to rebuild the economy\, it is vital that we seize the opportunity to reduce inequalities of income and wealth. \nChurches\, and Christians more widely\, have unique contributions to make here\, going beyond their traditional focus on poverty. Economic inequality is a spiritual\, as much as a social\, problem: as Archbishop Justin Welby has said\, it is “the most destabilizing and unjust feature of our own society”.[2] \nOn 18th January at 6pm\, Theos researcher Simon Perfect will discuss these issues in an online event hosted by Justshare. Simon is the author of a new report for Theos\, Bridging the Gap: Economic Inequality and Church Responses in the UK (2020). The report argues that after the pandemic\, churches need to use their resources\, both practical and theological\, to become vocal champions of greater economic equality\, leading the national conversation about building a fairer economy. \nSimon will discuss the scale of economic inequality in the UK; the burgeoning body of social scientific research showing why high levels of inequality are bad for society; how Christian theology can help us think about the problem of economic inequality; how UK churches have already been responding to the issue\, and what more they should be doing to help bridge the gap. \nBook your free ticket here.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/economic-inequality-and-church-responses-in-the-uk/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Education,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Reading the Bible Right Now
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. \nFor our Reading the Bible Right Now events\, we will be welcoming theologians from inside as well as outside the Regent community to reflect on how they are reading the Bible during this season of uncertainty. They will be reflecting personally on questions such as: Where in scripture do you find hope\, encouragement\, rebuke\, or a prophetic word in light of all that is happening in the world right now? How does your rootedness in scripture prepare you to engage with the issues of our day? How does our reading of scripture help us to read our cultural moment and vice versa? \nWe invite you to join us as we welcome Dr. Carmen Joy Imes\, who will share about her own personal engagement with scripture in this season\, followed by a time of Q&A. \nDr. Carmen Joy Imes is professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Three Hills\, Alberta. Her books include Bearing YHWH’s Name at Sinai: A Reexamination of the Name Command of the Decalogue\, Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters\, and Reading the Psalms with Augustine and Friends. She is currently working on a commentary on Exodus for Baker Academic and a book on what it means to be the image of God for IVP.  Carmen is an active member of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies\, the Institute for Biblical Research\, the Society of Biblical Literature\, and the Evangelical Theological Society. She blogs at carmenjoyimes.blogspot.com\, Christianity Today\, and The Well\, and releases weekly Torah Tuesday videos on her YouTube channel. Regent’s very own Dr. Matthew Lynch interviewed her for the OnScript podcast\, and she’ll be teaching a course on Exodus for Regent’s 2021 Summer Programs. \nA livestream link will be posted in this space closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/reading-the-bible-right-now/
CATEGORIES:Church,Education,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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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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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:20210122T133000
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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: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:20210126T190000
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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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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:20210128T150000
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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: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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