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Almost No Matter What
(2020)"Almost No Matter What" is a work of autotheory - according to Stacey Young, a mode of writing "personal experience within political contexts" - in the emerging discipline of post-capitalist pastoral theology. Aware that ... -
Forsaking Babel: A Theological Framework for Biblical Stories as Relationship and Surrender
(2020)What are the relational dynamics of narrative-as-communication, and why do the biblical scriptures utilize it? Through an exploration of both these questions and several key biblical narratives, this paper seeks to uncover ... -
Black Relativity: On Law, Music, and Spirit in (Anti-)Black Time
(2021)This paper argues that anti-Blackness is so vast, pervasive, and powerful that it has disfigured the concept and experience of time for Black people, and it argues that, against and within this disfigurement, Black people ... -
A Partial Translation into French of Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson including a Foreword by the Translator
(2021)This work is a translation into French of half of the book Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson. In the foreword in English, the translator explains the challenges ... -
“They are like a box-tree": Racial Formation in Mishnah Nega’im 2:1
(2021)Situated within Seder Taharot, or Order of Purities, Mishnah Tractate Nega’im deals with laws regarding nega’im (sg. nega), or markings, on one’s skin, clothes, and house, which are susceptible to ritual impurity. The laws ... -
Reinventing the Wheel: Unitarian Universalist Youth History and Covenantal Theology
(2021)A paper examining Unitarian Universalist youth movements since 1953, asking how the past might inform youth history today. Roughly chronological, this paper looks at moments in history through four central themes: youth ... -
Invoking Eternity: Religion and Temporality in the National Socialist Narrative
(2021)This paper seeks to shine a light on the National Socialist approach to both religion and temporality as they intersect in the narrative of the Third Reich. Using the Nazi propaganda documentaries 'Triumph of the Will' and ... -
The Role of Christian Faith Leaders in Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: A Workshop for Seminary Students
(2021)This is a workshop guide for facilitators teaching Christian seminary or divinity school students how to prevent and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) in their congregations. Building theoretical, theological, and ... -
“Something is Happening in Memphis”: Black Spirituality and Culture of Resilience in Memphis, Tennessee
(2021)Memphis, Tennessee is a majority Black city located at the southwestern corner of Tennessee bordering Mississippi and Arkansas. The unique geographic location has created a beautifully urban-country energy that gives Memphis ... -
Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon in Light of the Tibetan Treasure (gter ma) Tradition
(2021)This paper explores and extends theories on Joseph Smith’s production of the Book of Mormon by discovering and translating a set of ancient gold plates in light of similar events in the Treasure (gter ma) tradition of ... -
Race Rendered Theologically: The Entangled Theological and Racial Discourse of Josiah Strong, 1885-1915
(2021)Analyzing the relationship between white mainline Protestant theology and white supremacy in the twentieth-century United States raises methodological challenges because of the coded language of dog-whistle politics and ... -
Consent Based Catholic Sex Education: Moving towards a more inclusive model of sex education, reproductive education, and consent education
(2021)This paper will show that Catholic sex education needs an update immediately. I argue that Catholic sex education should move towards a model that is based on consent, that teaches comprehensive reproductive education, and ... -
A Call to Gender Justice: A Commentary on Equality and Equity in the COOLJC
(2021)This paper explores how some interpretations of scripture and other sacred texts have been used to subjugate women particularly in the COOLJC (Church of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Inc.). We will examine the historical ... -
Theologizing the Pill: Christianity, Women's Magazines, and Birth Control, 1960-1972
(2021)This paper examines Christian women’s responses to the legalization of the birth control pill in America through conversations within women’s magazines of the 1960s and ‘70s. During this time period, women were largely ... -
Feuerbach’s Alienation and Cyberspace (Social Media): Three Models of the Human
(2021)With the three models of the human in mind, the paper observes the current shift in paradigm— the downfall of the autonomous individual and the emergence of the co-dependent network— under cyberspace (social media) by ... -
Telecaring: Lessons on Virtual Caregiving from the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2021)Telecaring: Lessons on Virtual Care from the COVID-19 Pandemic Written by a Harvard University graduate student who watched her mother navigate virtual care for Stage IV breast cancer in 202, this essay interviews with 30+ ... -
Searching for Mustard Seeds and Flickering Flames: A Guide to Reading as a Mode of Care
(2021)How can reading stories help us become better caregivers? And what skills can Theravadin story literature build in the context of chaplaincy and spiritual care? Using original translations of the story of Kisa Gotami as ... -
From Deus in Adiutorium To Maranatha: Colonialism and Reform in John Main’s Hindu Encounter
(2021)John Main, OSB (1926-1982) taught a method of Christian meditation that was notably developed from the synthesis of two major sources: his encounter with Swami Satyananda (1909-1961) in British Malaya in 1955 and the ... -
Sustaining Self, Transforming Communities: A trauma-informed healing justice guide
(2021)This guide is a tool for personal and community healing. Exploring themes of body intelligence, impacts of childhood adversity, and self-sustainability, this book will help you recognize and address structural violence, ... -
The Spirit of Gentleness: The orientating virtue of Christian Ministry
(2021-05)This thesis argues that gentleness is the orientating virtue of Christian Ministry. It shapes and leads the other virtues into their proper application within a ministerial context. Gentleness is defined against trivializing ...