Join us for the 2024 Spring Mahle Lecture Series public workshop and keynote lecture engaging the topic of "Interreligious Peacebuilding Through Study." These in-person events will take place at the Kay Fredericks Room in Klas Center at Hamline University. The focus on interreligious dialogue through study is a way to become better at bringing such diverse views together through respectful, rich, and non-reductive thought, practice, and pedagogy.
Please note: We hope you can join us for the entire evening, but if you can only make it for the workshop or the keynote, that's great too. Please indicate in the Eventbrite form which events you will be attending and when.
April 16, 2024 Schedule:
5:00pm: Doors open
5:15pm: Gathering and introductions
5:30pm: Scriptural Reasoning Workshop, led by Dr. Peter Ochs, one of the founders of the Scriptural Reasoning practice and leaders in the Society of Scriptural Reasoning
6:45pm: Dinner for workshop participants
7:30pm: Keynote Lecture: "The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning" with Dr. David Ford, one of the founders of the Scriptural Reasoning practice
Members of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning will be joining us to offer a workshop in a practice of interreligious peacebuilding through study called Scriptural Reasoning. Members who will be joining us include:
Ashleigh Elser, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University
Essam Fahim, Teaching Fellow at LUMS and Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia
Nauman Faisi, Associate Professor of Religion, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Deborah Galaski, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Towson University
Jacob Goodson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Southwestern College
Kevin Hughes
Mubashir Khizar, Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Virginia
Benjamin Maton, Pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church
Peter Ochs, Edgar M. Professor Emeritus of Modern Judaic Studies, University of Virginia Department of Religious Studies
Daniel Weiss, Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge
William Young, Professor in Philosophy, Endicott College
What are the Mahle Lectures:
The Stephen and Kathi Austin Mahle Endowed Fund for Progressive Christian Thought was created to support the efforts of Hamline University toward exploring and articulating contemporary forms of progressive theology and its relationship to the rest of the multi-faith community, providing students opportunities to reflect on the place of faith and spirituality in personal, social, political, and economic life.
Through the Mahle Lecture series, we explore and articulate contemporary forms of Christian Theology through the lens of Lived Theology. During our annual lecture series, we explore and articulate the thought and spiritual biographies of invited activists, scholars, and community and faith leaders who are actively working to transform society based, at least in part, on their spiritual and religious convictions. The fruit of each lecture series is an articulation of spiritual visions aimed at inspiring moral imagination and civil courage as we face stark inequalities and work together to take the lead in building a more just world.
Recent Mahle Lectures
"Teaching Religion and Race in Predominantly White Institutions," Dr. David Evans, Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer (2023)
"Artistic Expression as Mobilization Workshop," Joe Davis, local artist, activist, and author and Dr. Darlene Fry, Director of the Irreducible Grace Foundation (2023)
"Introduction to Health, Wellness, and Healing from Trauma Workshop," The Irreducible Grace Foundation (2023)
"Let's Not Go Back to Normal: Racial Reckoning, Repair, and Reconciliation," Rev. Nekima Levy Armstrong, Joe Davis, Dr. Alton B. Pollard, III, Amanzi Arnett, Dr. Iva B. Carruthers, and Rev. Dr. Curtiss Paul DeYoung (2022)