Download PDF: Lewis, Moved to Mercy Abstract In a time of ongoing global crises, the re-prioritizing of mercy as a core exercise of Christian identity takes on new urgency. Questions of how to love our neighbors concretely, consistently, and in
Experiencing Care Within: Introducing a Pedagogy of Sacred Connection for Teaching Pastoral Theology & Spiritual Care
Download PDF: Experiencing Care Within Abstract While recent attention has been given to better understand how spiritual caregivers might be sustained in their efforts, little time has been given to consider what pedagogies might be most helpful to develop both critical
Love Outside the Walls: Richard Rorty, Jane Addams, and James Baldwin on the Dangers and Vulnerabilities of Right Relation
Download PDF: Eddy, Love Outside the Walls Abstract Richard Rorty, in Achieving Our Country (1998), predicted the rise of a Donald Trump-like figure. Rorty’s humanistic allegiance to James Baldwin’s vision of love as a cure for the current political ills
A Story of Love and Shame and Love: A Reading of Zohar 1:127a-128b*
Download PDF: Greenstein, A Story of Love and Shame and Love Abstract The search for love can be a constructive hermeneutic force in reading sacred texts. The Zohar, the central text of the Jewish mystical tradition, applies such an approach
The Making of a Gay Muslim: Religion, Sexuality and Identity in Malaysia and Britain
Download PDF: Mahomed, RV, The Making of a Gay Muslim By: Shanon Shah London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xvi + 354 pages.$139.99. Identity is a variant thing. In one sense it is simple. It is the way in which humans elect to
Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological Theology
Download PDF: Klassen RV, Imitating Christ in Magwi Todd WhitmoreLondon: T&T Clark, 2019. 400 pages. $29.95. In 2006, Joel Robbins’ article “Anthropology and Theology: An Awkward Relationship?” argued that the newly emerging dialogue between anthropology and theology had transformative potential
Practical Matters Conference: Jennifer Ayres
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
Practical Matters Conference: Gregory C. Ellison, II
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
Practical Matters Conference: Amy Levad
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
Practical Matters Conference: Brendan Ozawa-de Silva
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, four graduates of Emory’s Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology shared their “big idea” for the study of religious practices. Practical Matters Journal is proud to publish each
Religion in the Anthropocene
Download PDF: RV Kelly, Religion in the Anthropocene Edited by Celia E. Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann, and Markus Vogt Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017. 338 pages. $33.60. Paul Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer popularized the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch marked