Contemplative Prayer in Christianity
A reading list from Stephanie Paulsell’s seminar.
Category: Spring/Summer 2022
Simple Living & High Thinking
A professor of religion and ethics discovers the spirituality of spinning cotton khadi while living among the sisters of the Brahma Vidya Mandir ashram. By Swasti Bhattacharyya
The Climate of Sacred Land Protection
Threats to the sacred land and caribou herds of the Arctic Refuge. Terry Tempest Williams with Bernadette Demientieff
A Burning Testament to Climate Collapse
Wildfires burn in the American Southwest. Terry Tempest Williams with Lucy Walker
The Climate of Grief
How might grieving, as a form of love and remembering, shape our responses to a changing planet? Terry Tempest Williams with Victoria Chang
The Climate of the Future
Imagining a path forward in a post-capitalist world. Terry Tempest Williams with Kim Stanley Robinson
Only Connect: Networked Christianity in the Digital Age
The digital revolution and globalization have accelerated and redirected profound religious, social, and cultural changes already underway since the 1960s. By David N. Hempton
Connection
How might grieving, as a form of love and remembering, shape our responses to a changing planet? Terry Tempest Williams with Victoria Chang
Three Poems by Corrado Govoni
“It’s Raining,” “The Noon Bells,” and “The Sick and the Sea” by Corrado Govoni, translated by Paula Bohince
Two Poems by Walter Smelt III
“Patriarch” and “Wha’ Izzat?” by Walter Smelt III
The Karma of a Nation
An eastward journey of Japanese American Buddhism helps us to reimagine the story of American identity and confront legacies of anti-Asian violence. By Duncan Ryūken Williams
Dune, or the Order of Time
Convergences of messianism, religion, and politics in Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah resonate with his time and our own. By Charles M. Stang
Ways of Knowing, Ethics of Care in Piranesi’s Labyrinth
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi evokes an ethics of care within a mythical landscape haunted by continuous loss. By Courtney Sender
Today, Tomorrow, and the Next Day
Reflecting on a Lenten lectionary reading from the Gospel of Luke. By Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Centering Black Evangelicals and Their Stories
A Q&A with Todne Thomas on her latest book, Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality. By Adam McNeil
