Reconstructing Counter Theological Narratives from/in the Margin Date: May 16, 2017 Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Venue: Stewart Hall Join Rev. Dr. Dhyanchand Carr as he discusses the important difference in perspectives and commitment to liberation between Ambedkar and Gandhi.
Su’ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist who uses anthropology and performance to explore the intersections of race and popular culture. Her latest work, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States (NYU
Shawn Copeland is Professor of Theology at Boston College. Her interests include theological anthropology, political theology, and African American intellectual history and religious experience. She also teaches in Boston College’s acclaimed Pulse Program which educates
Union invites you to join this public conversation about what it will take to birth a new America, a nation in which every life and every voice truly matters. The last presidential election was a
A conversation featuring Sharon Salzberg, angel Kyodo williams, and Robert Wright. How can we harness meditative practice and the principles of Buddhism to more effectively engage in political arenas ranging from social justice to foreign
The Spirituality of Beliefs, Behaviors, and Impact SpiriTalk is a discussion group on “Spirituality” facilitated by either student(s), faculty, staff and/or special guests. Facilitators begin the discussion by sharing their own understanding of God and/or
Come join us for a reception and conversation highlighting Union’s newest program in Islam and Interreligious Engagement as part of the Master of Divinity Degree! Check out the program here. Light refreshments will be provided.
Union’s Center for Earth Ethics and Institute for Studies of Eastern Christianity will host an event to discuss Eastern Christian eco-theology, and the lessons it holds amidst our present environmental catastrophe. Speakers will include Dr.
Acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh explores the impact of global warming on the craft of narrative fiction in his latest work—The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Ghosh will discuss this timely work with Insight Program
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is an award-winning educator, writer, activist, and scholar who believes deeply that love, equity, and justice are closely intertwined. He writes and speaks regularly on issues of diversity, inclusion, civil rights,
Bestselling author and award-winning physicist Brian Greene will discuss the cosmic philosophical implications of modern physics. What are we to make of quantum physics, with its paradoxical descriptions of reality; or of string theory, with
Join us for a conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer as she helps us rethink, reimagine and, renarrate our relationship to the sacred and the natural world. Can the objective, data-driven approach of science be enriched by
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