Download PDF: Roeland and Vlaardingerbroek, Hippie, Hipster and Hallelujah Abstract This article discusses ethnographic research conducted at a Dutch Christian festival in 2017: Graceland Festival. The festival showed a wide diversity of religious beliefs and backgrounds, ranging from more traditional evangelical
Download PDF: Barnes RV, Lose Your Mother By Saidiya Hartman New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 270 pages. $16 If you ever lost a home, longed for home, or sought a reconnection with a spiritual or physical home, Lose Your Mother:
Download PDF: Lambelet, Becoming Allies Abstract: When hundreds of clergy gathered at Camp Oceti Sakowin on November 3, 2016, they did so not as allies or friends, but first as enemies. This site of social movement uprising against settler
Download PDF: Green, Carve Out Living Space Abstract In an era of mass incarceration and systematic social dismantling, US prisons function as death-dealing environments. Yet, people in a prison for women use their creativity to fashion communities that celebrate life
Download PDF: Figueroa-Ray, Love Disruption Abstract Rev. Dr. Miguel Balderas grounds his ministry to majority-white congregations in a decision to love and impose this love upon his congregants, whether or not they return it. This choice is embodied in both
Download PDF: Cladis, Love, Risk, and the Journey Home Abstract “Love, Risk, and the Journey Home” is an essay that explores two topics at the same time: how I teach and what I teach in my course, “Love: The Concept
Download PDF: Drahos, Beyond an Ethics of Niceness Abstract Christian ethics must not be divorced from the practical implications of cruciform love. This article examines the ramifications of this premise in the pedagogy of Dr. Kristen Drahos’ class, “Faith, Love,
Download PDF: Hamilton, Microaggressions as Violence Abstract The most common critique levelled against the concept of microaggressions is that it involves a dangerous exaggeration, treating simple mistakes or miscommunications as acts of violence. I argue in this essay that microaggressions
Download PDF: Calvin RV, Youth Ministry By: David BaileyEugene: Pickwick Publications, 2019. 260 pages. $31.00 In his book Youth Ministry and Theological Shorthand: Living Amongst the Fragments of a Coherent Theology, David Bailey poses some insightful questions about theological education
Download PDF: RV Raheb, Days of Awe By: Atalia Omer Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 368 pages. $35.00. What does it mean to “reimagine” one’s faith? How does religion influence social movements and force communities to reimagine their identity
At the Practical Matters conference at Emory University in March 2018, the public plenary session featured inter-faith teachers, scholars, and activists to address three big questions: What are the practices of vibrant faith communities? What is the best way to
Download PDF: Common, Introducing Design Thinking Abstract This paper will introduce design thinking and practical theology as promising new interdisciplinary partners that can enhance their respective methodological and pedagogical approaches. Both share a focus on problem-solving, innovation and transformation and
Download PDF: RV Moschella, Reflective Research Invitation to Research in Practical TheologyBy Zoë Bennett, Elaine Graham, Stephen Pattison, and Heather WaltonNew York: Routledge, 2018. 194 pages. $140 Hardback; $39.95 Paperback; $39.95 Ebook. Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Anthropological TheologyBy Todd
Download PDF: Beaudoin, Faith in Music Abstract The author reviews a free, open, online course on popular music that he taught from a practical theological perspective. By considering several dimensions of the structure and content of the course, and with
Download PDF: Dombkowski Hopkins, Bridging the Divide Abstract Biblical interpreters argue that the Bible is a gapped, polyphonic collection of texts. Pastoral theology argues that we as readers of the biblical text are multiple and fluid. For too long, the
Download PDF: Penagos, Teaching Religious Traditions Abstract Associative place-based pedagogy uniquely provides strategies inclusive of a wide range of traditions beyond those of traditional Western classrooms and provides a foundation for educators to build upon in ways that are practical
Download PDF: RV Angulo, Vulnerability and Valour By: Jessica M. KeadyLondon: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017. 240 pages. $120.00. Jessica Keady’s work sheds light on the complex and dynamic relationship between gender and impurity in the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls communities.
Download PDF: Dollinger, Who is a Jew Abstract American Jewish approaches to social justice can best be understood by investigating the various definitions of “who is a Jew?” Those definitions changed over time and place as Jews lived in the