Taking Risks: Theological Imaginings 4:30-6:00 pm
Location
Washburn Lofts
700 S 2nd St, #61
USA
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About this event
MCC member Mary Bednarowski has spent the fall as a resident scholar at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research on the campus of St. John's University. She is doing research on stories told in the first person about religious lives and spiritual journeys in a variety of traditions. She finds the stories in memoirs, in the self-disclosing prefaces of otherwise highly abstract books, in interviews, in literary works, on blogs-- she casts a wide net. Her thesis, broadly, is this: that whatever else they might be, religion and theology are arenas of ongoing human creativity that give us insights into how people live out, question, renew, or change their religious worldviews in response to changing individual, communal, and social circumstances.
The fellowship requires that she gives "a public presentation." The format for these is typically a classroom presentation or an academic lecture. She thinks it would be more helpful for her particular project to talk it over with her friends and neighbors in Mill City Commons: to offer you some of what she has discovered to ask you what you think, and, if you are inclined, to offer some of your own stories. To that end, she invites you to a discussion at her loft. There will be wine and cheese because "exchanging deep thoughts on an empty stomach is never a good idea."
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