Carve Out Living Space: Creativity, Counter-environments, and the Formation of Salvific Community in Prison Apr 15, 2021
Nonviolence as Love in Action: James Lawson’s Transforming the Promise of Jesus’ Love into a Practical Force for Change Nov 18, 2020
Love Outside the Walls: Richard Rorty, Jane Addams, and James Baldwin on the Dangers and Vulnerabilities of Right Relation Sep 06, 2020
IssueIssue 14: Exclusion, Belonging, and BecomingSearching, not Leaving: Exclusion, Belonging, and Becoming in Religious Communities July 26, 2021 / Keith A. MenhinickMoved to Mercy: A Practical Theological Examination of Sight and Sound in Motivating Merciful Action May 17, 2021 / Jennifer LewisQueer Palestine and the Empire of Critique May 13, 2021 / Garrett Kiriakos-FugateRead or Download the full issue…Issue 12: Revolutions and Re-ImaginationsTurning the Wheel in Religious Practices and Practical Theology December 4, 2019 / Cara CurtisPractical Matters Conference: Practices of Vibrant Faith Communities December 4, 2019 / Abdullah Antepli, Diana Butler Bass, Brian McLaren, and Robert FranklinPractical Matters Conference: Jennifer Ayres October 24, 2019 / Jennifer AyresRead or Download the full issue…Issue 11: MigrationsRe-Understanding Migration as a Theologizing Experience October 15, 2018 / Eunil David ChoAcross Boundaries and Borders: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Toronto Hindu Temple Community September 30, 2018 / Nanette R. SpinaMuslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States September 12, 2018 / Kayla Renée WheelerRead or Download the full issue…Issue 10: Wealth, Poverty, and PracticeBeyond Religious Giving May 31, 2017 / Kristyn SessionsThe Grace of Playing: Pedagogies for Leaning into God’s New Creation May 19, 2017 / Marc LavalleeThe Presbyterian Mission Enterprise: From Heathen to Partner May 17, 2017 / Robert J. WeingartnerRead or Download the full issue…Issue 9: Sacred Spaces, Sacred JourneysItineraries July 15, 2016 / Layla A. KarstThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Their “Three-Fold Mission,” and Practical and Pastoral Theology June 29, 2016 / Daniel H. OlsenThe Root of the Route: Phil’s Camino Project and the Catholic Tradition of Surrogate Pilgrimage June 29, 2016 / Kathryn R. BarushRead or Download the full issue…Issue 8: Worship, Ritual, & TheoryFrom the Pulpit and the Pavement March 1, 2015 / Matthew Lawrence Pierce, Issue Editor“I Have a Brick From That Building:” The Deconsecration of Highgate United Church March 1, 2015 / Barry StephensonFail Better Or, What can Teachers of Preaching Learn from Improvisational Performers and from Pixar? March 1, 2015 / Jared E. AlcántaraRead or Download the full issue…Issue 7: Worship, Ritual, & TheoryThe Promise of Pierre Bourdieu’s Social Theories of Practice for the Field of Homiletics March 1, 2014 / Adam HearlsonMusic and the Generosity of God March 1, 2014 / Gerald C. LiuReconsidering the Image of Preacher-as-Teacher: Intersections between Henry Giroux’s Critical Pedagogy and Homiletics March 1, 2014 / Richard VoelzRead or Download the full issue…Issue 6: Engaging Religious ExperienceDoing Religious Studies with Your Whole Body March 1, 2013 / Robert A. OrsiRoundtable on Ethnography and Religion March 1, 2013 / Don SeemanHallucinations March 1, 2013 / Courtney BenderRead or Download the full issue…Issue 5: Violence & PeaceCritical Responses to the Essays on ‘Religious Violence’ and ‘Religious Peacebuilding’ March 1, 2012 / Philip S. Gorski, Ellen Ott Marshall, and Edward Queen IIReligious Peacebuilding: The Exotic, the Good, and the Theatrical March 1, 2012 / Atalia OmerWar and the American Difference: An Interview with Stanley Hauerwas March 1, 2012 / John E. Senior and Stanley HauerwasRead or Download the full issue…Issue 4: Religion, Health, & HealingHealing in Religion, Religion in Healing: An Introduction to the Religion, Health and Healing Issue of Practical Matters March 1, 2011 / Annie Hardison-Moody and Jessica M. Smith, issue editorsNew Geographies of Religion and Healing: States of the Field March 1, 2011 / Linda L. BarnesBody Mapping Workshop: Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) March 1, 2011 / Mary Ann BurrisRead or Download the full issue…Issue 3: Ethnography and TheologyReflections on Intersections March 1, 2010 / Lerone Martin and Luke Whitmore, Issue EditorsGenocide or Just Another “Casualty of War”? Concluding Remarks March 1, 2010 / Todd David WhitmoreGenocide or Just Another “Casualty of War”? – Part III: The Implications of the Document: Genocide March 1, 2010 / Todd David WhitmoreRead or Download the full issue…Issue 2: YouthAppreciative Interest in the Religious Lives of Young People October 1, 2009 / Joshua Thomas and Almeda Wright, Issue EditorsVisions of Ezekiel: A Documentary Film October 1, 2009 / Sonia NarangWomen’s Lives, Women’s Rituals in Hindu Tradition October 1, 2009 / Jennifer D. OrtegrenRead or Download the full issue…Issue 1: ImaginationA Transdisciplinary Multimedia Journal of Religious Practices and Practical Theology: Introducing Practical Matters April 1, 2009 / Letitia M. Campbell and Donna S. Mote, Managing EditorsImagination and Multireligious Cooperation: A Conversation with Dr. William Vendley April 1, 2009 / Courtney T. Goto and Josh ThomasA Song to Sing, A Life to Live: A Conversation about Musical and Liturgical Imagination with Don and Emily Saliers April 1, 2009 / Amy LevadRead or Download the full issue…