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| Liturgy NewsWednesday, November 17 will be a Mass in Spanish.
Thursday, November 18 JST will celebrate Black Catholic History Month with a Liturgy of the Word this Thursday, November 18, at 5:15 p.m. in the JST Gesù Chapel. Ed Stewart, CDSP alumnus and JST Director of Enrollment Management and Marketing, will preside, and Albert Honegan, GTU doctoral affiliate of JST, will preach. All are invited for this celebration in scripture, reflection, and song.
Resources for learning more about Black Catholic History Month can be found in the “Black Catholic History” tile in the Moodle course, “JST Community Life, Prayer and Liturgy.”
Presider Schedule
Tuesday 11/16 8:00 Marko Pavlič, SJ 5:15 George Murphy, SJ
Wednesday 11/17 8:00 Michael Oluwadare, SJ 5:15 Mass in Spanish: Michael Tyrrell, SJ
Thursday 11/18 8:00 Oscar Angaga Nduri, SJ 5:15 Black Catholic History Month Celebration: Ed Stewart/Albert Honegan
Friday 11/19 8:00 Peter Omondi, SJ 5:15 Soo Young Park, S.J.
Saturday 11/20 8:30 Heritier Kinzamba, SJ |
JST Announcements
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Next week we will welcome our first finalist for the New Testament faculty position, Dr. Yii Jan Lin. We hope you may join us in person for the Public Lecture "Immigration and Naturalization in the New Jerusalem": Tuesday, November 16 from 11-12:00 pm in Manresa. Students are invited to join Dr. Lin for lunch on Tuesday, Nov 16, 12:15-1:15 or Wednesday, Nov. 17, 12:00-1:00. Please respond to the calendar invite sent by Teresa Bowes in order to sign up for lunch.
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JST offers spiritual direction to JST students, and encourages all students to seek spiritual direction. Students are invited to attend the session on Tuesday evening, November 16, to meet some of the JST directors. If you cannot attend on Tuesday, please let Paul Kircher (pkircher@scu.edu) know that you would like to find a spiritual director.
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The Arrupe Fellowship program brings together ten undergraduate students to work in community settings, supervise their peers doing social justice projects, and engage in advocacy and formation. An opportunity exists for a JST student to help manage this program in the spring 2022 semester and serve as a mentor for the Fellows while exploring new community placements for our experiential learning for social justice core requirement. Work for the Arrupe Fellowship program will be paid hourly. If interested, please contact Jennifer Merritt, Director of Community-based Learning for the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, email: jmerritt@scu.edu. Please apply by Friday, Dec. 3.
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Early Registration for the Intersession’22 term and for the Spring’22 semester. For Spring’22 you have until Friday, November 19 to register for spring courses. On that day, Early Registration will end – and registration won’t re-open until January 17. Early registration helps us know which courses students are most interested in, and which ones are not likely to have enough students. So, please, register early for as many courses as you feel confident about. You can always make adjustments later in January.
You can already begin now to look over the courses that are being offered both for Intersession and Spring on the GTU Course Schedule. The Intersession courses are listed along with the spring ones under “Spring’22”. When you bring up the spring courses, check the 3rd column (“session”) – for “Intersession” courses. If you have any questions, contact Jim Oberhausen, joberhausen@scu.edu.
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Of Interest Elsewhere |
Deepening Kinship on the Journey Online Retreat
An Advent Retreat hosted by Discerning Deacons
How are we journeying together, trusting in God’s nearness, open to the surprising annunciations and visitations that are the mark of discipleship?
What waits to be born this Advent? Let’s pause to gather in the space of this online retreat for some juicy spiritual nourishment during this sacred season. Sessions will feature inspiring voices from the Catholic community, including Casey McCabe Stanton and Claire Hitchins.
You’ll connect with thoughtful people from around the world doing the deep work of discernment in a hurting world and struggling Church.
The retreat includes:
- 3 Sunday afternoon sessions with inspiring worship, great music, dynamic preaching, and optional small group sharing:
- Dec. 5, 12, 19
- 2:00- 3:15 p.m. PST
- Fresh content emailed weekly to help you go deep on your Advent journey
- The opportunity to connect with a discerning community seeking to engage in the wider synodal process unfolding in the Church
Sponsored by the Discerning Deacons project, this event is the spiritual work of Molleen Dupree-Dominguez, spiritual director, Bridget Deegan-Krause, chaplain and formation guide, Lizzie Berne DeGear, chaplain and scripture scholar, and Casey McCabe Stanton, co-director of Discerning Deacons.
Sliding Scale payment.
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JST Events |
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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The Adventure Continues 10/18/2023 – 5/15/2024
6:30 p.m., To be held online on the 3rd Wednesday of each month through May 15, 2024 from 6:30 to 7:45 PM
We invite you to a follow-up program to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises to begin on September 20th sponsored by your friends at Santa Clara University. This series is open to anyone who has completed the 19th Annotation or the 30-day Exercises with Santa Clara or elsewhere.
We will meet monthly on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30 to 7:45 PM (except for Dec. we will meet on the second Wed.). We will use the book by Kevin O’Brien, SJ called Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures, which is his follow-up book to The Ignatian Adventure. We are asking you to purchase the book by Sept. 20th if you wish to participate in this Ignatian spirituality adventure.
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Contemplative Walk
2:30 p.m.
Join others to reconnect to the world around us. Check the Magis for specifics each week. In general, those walking meet at the bell and depart at 2:30.
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU Commencement Mass & Reception
5:15 - 8 p.m., JST Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU Lay Sending Service
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., JST Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU 2024 Commencement Exercises
3 - 5 p.m. Join us for the 2024 Commencement Exercises of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Light reception to follow
Please RSVP here by Mary 8, 2024
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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SCU Events and Announcements |
SCU Native History Tour
The SCU Native History Tour, developed in collaboration between members of San Francisco Bay Area Ohlone communities and SCU faculty, showcases the Indigenous history of the Santa Clara University campus. Clicking on the link above will bring you to Google Earth, where you can take the tour using the arrow icons in the bottom left of the window to navigate. At most stops, you can click on the images above the text for a slideshow and/or further information from Ohlone representatives. Your feedback on the tour via this survey is welcome.
8 minute Lunchtime Examen
Join SCU’s Division of Mission and Ministry for a weekly 8-minute Lunchtime Examen every Friday, 12:51-12:59 p.m. PDT. A team of faculty, staff, and students will take turns leading the Examen each Friday over Zoom. Aware of just how much we are all going through these days, the team hopes to provide a calm, welcoming presence as we journey together in community through the Examen. We hope students, faculty, and staff from any religious, secular, or spiritual identity feel supported and welcomed in this experience. No need to register. Click HERE for zoom details.
Metaphor, Myth and Politics: Art from Native Printmakers
De Saisset Museum at SCU features recent prints by Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit), Marwin Begaye (Diné [Navajo]), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Wendy Red Star (Crow), C. Maxx Stevens (Seminole/Muscogee), and other Native and Indigenous printmakers from across the globe, all drawn from the collection of UC Davis’ C.N. Gorman Museum. These inventive works reveal the diverse points of view and styles of art present in the world of contemporary Native printmaking. Traveling exhibition Metaphor, Myth, & Politics: Art from Native Printmakers is the product of a partnership between the C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis and Exhibit Envoy. This exhibit is all online, October 1 - December 2.
http://scupresents.org/performances/exhibition-metaphor-myth-politics-art-native-printmakers
Archive Exhibit: The Samurai and the Cross: Life and Death in Christian Japan, 1549-1650
Curated by Prof. M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, this exhibit explores the reality of Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the late 16th and early 17th centuries through use of Japanese texts, European rare books, paintings, and other written and visual media. Many of these missionaries were martyred by Japanese authorities and went on to develop mythical proportions in Jesuit rhetoric.
The gallery space is on the third floor of the Learning Commons and Library, next to the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday when the learning commons is open and by appointment. On display from September 20 through December 10. For more information: https://www.scu.edu/library/asc/exhibits/samurai/
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Black Catholic History Month Mass
8:00 p.m. PST, Mission Santa Clara
JST MDiv student Joel Thompson, SJ, will preach at this Mass held at Santa Clara University to celebrate Black Catholic History Month.
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Discussion of SCU Native HIstory Tour and Spatial Humanities on Campus
12:30-1:30 p.m. PST via zoom
Join the Digital Humanities Initiative at SCU for their first event of this year featuring Lee Panich (Anthropology) and Amy Lueck (English) as they address questions of representation and justice in our own campus space.
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Writing Forward Reading Series
6:00 p.m. PST, Clare Room and via YouTube LIve
To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, The Santa Clara Review and Creative Writing Program, in partnership with the Office for Multicultural Learning, are pleased to present five renowned Native American poets reading. Admission if FREE and limited to SCU students, faculty and staff. YouTube Live is open to the public.
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AI, Tech and the End of the Anthropocene: A Virtual Conversation
8:00 - 9:00 am, PST, via zoom
Human impact on the environment may be reaching a tipping point. The extractive nature of artificial intelligence (extraction of natural resources, of personal data, and of global labor) may be accelerating the crisis. What values might help us reframe our relationship to the environment and to technology in this new phase of human life? Join Kate Crawford, one of the world’s leading figures in AI and ethics, and Tim Beal, a technologically savvy scholar of religious values, in a conversation moderated by Philip Butler, an expert in AI and Black posthumanism. Hosted by the ILIFF Artificial Intelligence Institute and the Ignatian Center's Bannan Forum.
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Lessons Learned from Vaccinations
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. PST via zoom
The goal of this webinar series is to bring together members of the community that to provide up-to-date information on COVID-19, share best practices, and discuss the changing landscape around COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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Northern California Innocence Project's 20th Anniversary Celebration
5:30 - 8:00 p.m. SCU Recital Hall and online
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Northern California Innocence Project has helped to free 4 wrongfully convicted men.
Jeremy Puckett (March 13, 2020), Arturo Jimenez (August 12, 2020), Clifton Jones (April 15, 2021), and Juan Bautista (June 24, 2021) collectively lost 71 years.
We hope you can join us for a special evening event on December 9th to honor these and all those freed from a wrongful conviction. Our community is critical to the healing journey! This event is free to attend.
If you are joining us in person at Santa Clara University, vaccination proof is required. Please bring your proof of COVID-19 vaccination card or digital record or proof of a negative COVID-19 test.
If you are joining online-only, a link will be provided closer to the date.
REGISTER ONLINE by emailing Lori Stone at lstone@scu.edu.
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GTU News and Events |
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Transhumanism as Contemporary Idolatry: A Judaic Critique
5:00 p.m. PST via zoom
A CTNS Public Forum with Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Respondents.
Transhumanism is a social and intellectual movement that promotes the use of technoscience to shape the evolution of the human species. Engaging transhumanism from a Judaic perspective, this lecture argues that transhumanism is a contemporary case of what the Bible understood as "idolatry," namely, the veneration of human-made artifacts as if they were divine. Instead of making us "better humans" and "perfecting" our world, the transhumanist idolatry has made us and our world less just, less equitable, and less caring. The harm inflicted by the massive technologization of life demands a critical examination of transhumanism.
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2021 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble
6:00 p.m. PST via zoom
Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble will present the 46th annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture titled, “Our Pedagogical Charge: Weaving Hope and Justice into the Gossamer-thin Fabric of Religious Democracy.”
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Conservative Impulses: Queers, Interfaith Couples, and Jewish Continuity with Semira K. Mehta
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. PST via zoom
In the final three decades of the twentieth century, Liberal American Judaism struggled to address two new challenges to longstanding conceptions of the Jewish family: interfaith marriage and same-gender relationships. The trajectories of these two issues raises the question: if non-Orthodox Jewish communities are more formally accepting of same-sex relationships than they are of interfaith families, why are Jewish communities more welcoming of interfaith couples and families than they are queer friendly?
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GTU Community Thanksgiving Meal
5:00-7:00 p.m. PST, Berkeley Institute of Religion, 2368 Le Conte Avenue
Let us gather in this time of Thanksgiving to share food from our cultures and fellowship with each other. We are grateful to the Berkeley Institute of Religion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for hosting GTU students, their families, and the broader GTU community in this festive meal. Main dishes and turkey provided.
Please RSVP by 11/17 (Wed) by adding your name to the list, indicate what food you will be bringing, and if you need or can offer transportation.
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Madrasa-Midrasha|Jurisprudence and Diaspora
1:30 p.m. PST via zoom
Join us for this special Madrasa-Midrasha Program event, which will feature presentations by Dr. Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford University) and Dr. Mark Fathi Massoud (UC Santa Cruz).
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Art Break with Benjamin Heller
noon - 1:00 p.m. PST via zoom
Benjamin Heller is a cross disciplinary artist, blurring the traditional boundaries of media to uncover newfound vitality in their intersections. Drawing from a diverse background and training in visual arts, photography, dance, and physical improvisation, his works are rooted in the movement of the body and the creation of intimate environments that can be entered, opening a space for discovery via the body, senses, and the imagination.
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Spiritual Care in LGBTQ Deserts: a Lavender Lunch with Jude Johnson
12:15-1:15 p.m PST via zoom
In this online Lavender Lunch, Jude Johnson shares their experience of providing spiritual care for LGBTQ Veterans of the VA medical system in the Inland Empire of California. The desert cities in Southern California pose unique challenges in seeking support for LGBTQ individuals as the resources tend to be located in larger cities near the coast. Jude will also discuss experiences in educating allies in the VA medical system and advocacy for trans-competent health care.
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Community Events and Resources |
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Deepening Kinship in the Journey Q&A Session
2:00 - 2:30 p.m. PST via zoom
Want to Learn more about the Discerning Deacons Advent Retreat? Join us for a 30-minute Q&A session on Sunday, November 14 at 5pm ET / 2pm PT or email your questions to Molleen Dupree-Dominguez. (molleen@molleendupreedominguez.com)
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Synodality and Women with Phyllis Zagano
4:00 p.m. PST via zoom
The Social Justice Committee of St. Theresa Parish in Oakland is hosting Phyllis Zagano, an internationally acclaimed Catholic scholar and lecturer on contemporary spirituality andwomen’s issues in the church.
Join us on Sunday, November 14 at 4pm via Zoom with your cup of tea.
Please RSVP to Lydia Deck to get the Zoom link ltdeck@me.com
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The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin: Zoom webinar with John Haught
1:00-2:30 pm PST
This webinar brings out the theological distinctiveness of Teilhard’s vision of life by contrasting it with traditional pre-scientific theologies of life on the one hand and contemporary naturalist/materialist interpretations of life and its evolution on the other. Drawing on his two forthcoming books, The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin (Orbis, December 2021) and God after Einstein (Yale, March 2022), John Haught argues that Teilhard’s cosmic vision still offers a rich setting, both intellectually and theologically, for our understanding not only of life, but also of mind, morality, and religion. Cost: $25; hardship scholarships available for free access.
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Recognizing, Responding To and Healing Trauma in Faith-Based Communities
12:00p.m. PST via zoom
Dr. Bruce Perry -- renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist and author of the #1 best-selling book with Oprah – “What Happened to You?” -- will speak about faith, adversity and resilience with various international and local faith-based leaders.
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Women and Catholic Social Teaching: Faith at Work, Translating Tradition into Action with Mary Haddad, RSM
Noon - 1:00 p.m. PST via zoom
Each year the Lane Center honors women who shape the Catholic social tradition through their actions and intellectual contributions to Catholicism. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed stark inequities in healthcare. In this context, we are excited to lift up the voice of an advocate for healthcare as a human right. Sister Mary Haddad, RSM, is the president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association of the United States. A Sister of Mercy, Haddad represents a legacy of women leaders who prioritize healthcare for marginalized communities.
Haddad will highlight the ways Catholic sisters have shaped Catholic social thought through their social ministries, with particular attention to healthcare. This event is co-sponsored by the School of Nursing and Health Professions, University Ministry, and Ignatian Spiritual Life Center at St. Agnes Church.
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Unpacking Histories: History of Boarding Schools for Native Students
4:00 p.m. PST online
Unpacking Histories is a learning and conversation series that examines the history of relations between Jesuits and Indigenous peoples in what is now known as the US and Canada. This session will focus on the history of boarding schools for Native students, with a particular look at Jesuit schools. Please register if you’re affiliated with a Jesuit province or ministry and are interested in attending this or future sessions.
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Jesuits and Boarding Schools: Truth, Reconciliation, Responsibility
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., PST, via zoom
The Taking Responsibility project has a particular goal to highlight not only the history of Jesuit institutions and sexual abuse, but to ask how we can confront and handle this history and its many legacies in the present. Following up on last year’s online dialogue “Native American Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis,” this event will bring together a Jesuit who has been deeply involved in this question along with two speakers who are leaders at, and in one case a graduate of, the Red Cloud Indian School, now several years into a Truth and Healing process. The panel seeks to address the pressing question of what it means for today’s Jesuit institutions (and their employees, students, and graduates) to take responsibility for the full legacy of the Jesuits in North America. Sponsored by Fordham University.
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Santa Clara Chorale Concert, Remember Holidays
Dec. 10, 8:00 p.m., Dec. 12, 4:00 p.m. Mission Santa Clara
The Santa Clara Chorale will be performing their Christmas concert, "Remember Holidays", at the Mission Santa Clara de Asis on December 10, 8:00 pm and December 12, 4:00 pm. Their repertoire includes traditional carols and exciting festive songs. Discounted tickets are available for SCU employees, students, and seniors. Kids 18 and under attend for free! Reserve your tickets online: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35864/production/1081374
General admission ticket prices:
Adult: $27
Senior: $22
SCU staff: $22
Student: $5
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Calls for Papers, Grants and More |
Call for Papers: International Symposium on Jesuit Studies -- NEW!!
This International Symposium on Jesuit Studies scheduled for August 1 - 4, 2022, at Boston College will explore the many aspects of the Society’s relations to the Church, all within the global contexts in which the Jesuit mission grew and operated. Proposals and a narrative CV (together no more than 500 words) are due before the end of Monday, December 6, 2021, with decisions communicated before the end of the year. Proposals for individual papers or panels are accepted. Selected papers may be peer reviewed and published in open access following the event. For further information and to submit proposals, contact the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at iajs@bc.edu. More information on the call for papers is available here.
Call for Papers: Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
On February 26, 2022, the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College will host the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference on the theme: "Religious Activism and Political Change; Political Activism and Religious Change." Because of the lingering impact of COVID and to encourage a national presence at the conference, we will again hold the conference virtually. Given the number of topics implicated by this topic, we invite proposals from graduate and professional students in any discipline. Abstracts are due on December 12th, 2021, and should be sent to boisi.center@bc.edu.
Religious Studies Position at Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley
Saint Mary’s College High School is seeking a Religious Studies Teacher to teach The Life & Times of Jesus and Does Religion Matter? beginning with the Winter 2022 Trimester (November 29). This is a full-time teaching position. For the job description and to apply, click here.
FASPE Seminary Fellowships in Professional Ethics
FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work.
The Fellowship is fully funded for between 12 and 16 applicants. FASPE Seminary applicants must either be enrolled in graduate school preparing for work as a religious leader at the time of application or they must be working as clergy with a relevant graduate degree received between May 2020 and January 2022. Those applying as students may be studying at a seminary, divinity school, rabbinical school, Muslim chaplaincy program or other graduate program related to religious OR theological training.
More information is available at this link. If you would like further information about FASPE or its programs, please visit the website www.faspe-ethics.org. Potential applicants can register here. Completed applications are due January 2, 2022.
Call for Book Proposals for book series, Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology, French phenomenology, pre- and post-phenomenologies, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. In accord with Husserl’s original intent, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, www.sophere.org.
Click here For More Information
Two roads diverged on November 6 on Mt. Tamalpais: JST students Alexandra Bishop, Jesus Muñoz, Joanna Elvis and Velenson Gomez, S.J. on the path down to Stinson Beach. Photo by Velenson Gomez, S.J. Associate Academic Dean Jean-François Racine on the path up to Mount Tamalpais. Photo by Anne Hébert.
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