This week is Palm Sunday for many Christian-identifying people around the world, and I am holding the words "triumphant entry into Jerusalem," as many texts describe this event, with the image of Jesus on a donkey's colt, flanked by people waving palms and yew branches. Without the weight of tradition built up around this story, … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 28 March, 1-2pm Dublin time →

Kwok Pui-lan "Using an embodied ritual and liturgy allows participants free expression for prayer... This embodied ritual is also an actualization of the call to reconstruct the meaning of a woman's body, which is the seat or locus of exploitation, and reclaim it as hallowed ground and a temple of the spirit." Carmelita M. Usog, … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 21 March, 1-2pm IST →

A conversation between four theologians (two of whom have been my professors) who are important to my doctoral research set my mind on fire this week. I am linking the whole thing here, but if you only have a little time, you can go directly to approximately minute 42, where Dr. JoAnne Marie Terrell talks … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 14 March, 1-2pm IST →

How to write so that the poem is as close as possible to silence? Zen—to play on the lute without strings.--Anna Kamienska, trans. Clare Cavanagh After nearly 7 years of reading poetry theologically and theology poetically, I still can't say exactly what the two -- poetry, theology -- have to do with each other, except … Continue reading Coffee Hour ~ 7 March, 1-2pm IST →