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Abolition as Spiritual Discipline
This paper explores abolition as a spiritual discipline, considering the possibilities of turning a political commitment into a ritual, daily practice that becomes an ethic. Incarcerated people have always documented their ... -
Abortion, Eugenics, and Civilization: Catholic Anti-Abortion Arguments during the Great Depression
(2021-05)During the early years of the Great Depression, financial pressures caused the rate of abortions to at least double despite the procedure’s illegality in every state. In response to this rise in abortions, Catholic theologians ... -
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 ... -
Assessing Theological Foundations Of Land Justice Among Communities of Catholic Sisters
This capstone project assessed the theological foundations underpinning growing movements for land justice among communities of Catholic Sisters. The project involved a series of conversations with Catholic Sisters and ... -
Beloved Glimpses: A Unitarian Universalist Theology of the Beloved Community and Implications for Our Shared World
Theology of the Beloved Community has become mainstream in many discussions across Unitarian Universalism. As a powerful concept that emerged out of the works of Dr. Josiah Royce and popularized by the 1960s US Civil Rights ... -
The Birmingham Project and Ethics of Mourning
Through skillful reflection on the medium of photography, working in community, and visualizing loss and presence, Dawoud Bey’s The Birmingham Project forms a ruminative series of images. As a visual memorial, the series ... -
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 ... -
Body, the Lived Experience: Chinese Female Laity and Their Meditation Practices
Focusing on the expression––regaining the ownership of the body––this thesis attempts to explore the gendered dimension of the Chinese lay meditation movement from two aspects. In one aspect, I examine how the ownership ... -
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 ... -
Can Science Benefit from Gaudiya Vaishnava Ontology?
Can Science Benefit from Gaudiya Vaishnava Ontology ? In this paper, I attempt to understand and review the problematic and complex relationship between science and religion by focusing on the relationship between science ... -
Challenging La Biblia Latinoamérica: Religious Censorship, God’s Word, & Argentina’s Last Military Dictatorship
This project explores the challenging, partial banning, and suggested revising and redaction of La Biblia Latinoamérica, a biblical translation published in 1972 intended for Latin American readers. Within the first months ... -
Coming Down in Pieces: The Spiritual Care Response to Pan Am 103
(2021-05)The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988 was a major terrorism and mass murder event on par with 9/11 in terms of social and cultural impact. All 259 people onboard and 11 people on ... -
Coming to Reckoning and Peace: Mourning America’s War Dead - A Reflection
Striving to understand and reverence. Two themes that surfaced from my reading and contemplation as I wrote and researched. As I asked questions - Striving to understand - about why a soldier serves, how the military 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 ... -
Constructing the Gospels with Elisha’s Axe: Christian Soteriology, Discipleship, and Wonder-Working Focalized through the Medieval English Liturgy for the Ordeal by Water
(2021-05)This thesis examines the significance of the pericope of Elisha’s axe head on the formation of the Gospels and the Christian theology of discipleship. By spotlighting the role of Elisha’s axe head in the medieval English ... -
Crossing the Divine
This thesis originated from my struggles to reconcile my own Christian understanding of God and biblical passages and interpretations that one must believe in Jesus as savior to go to Heaven with my innate sense that other ... -
Drumbeats Beat Themselves Through Me: Interorality in Practice
In this paper I track and explore the layered and intersecting elements, practices, and culturally-specific traditions that coalesced within a single flash of coherent ritual within my personal practice. This project is ... -
Dynamics of Ritual and Relationship: Who We Make Real and How
This paper is an exploration of attachment: how we learn to hold and be held, to know God and to know each other. In short vignettes, the author explores themes of ritual, relationship, and mourning. Combining personal ... -
An Ecologist in Divinity School
An exploration of the interconnectedness of the human and more than human worlds, with an eye towards moving forward to the Ecocene. Combining personal narrative and memoir, research and photography to portray some special ...