Share Your Favorite Internet PT Resources
As we continue improving this site and consider further expanding into social media, please send us your favorite practical theology resources on the Internet and we can, in turn, share them here with our readership. Find a useful video? Galvanizing research paper? Significant website? We would like to know! (Email me at tbeaudoin@fordham.edu) Thank you […]
How Are the Streets in the Practical Theology Classroom?
I write from New York City, where the longstanding and painful tensions, griefs and grievances between law enforcement and communities of color, especially in struggling neighborhoods, has come more into larger public awareness than it has in a long time. (And by “coming into public awareness,” I mean essentially that publicly influential media outlets and […]
Interviews with the editors of "Opening the Field of Practical Theology"
As I mentioned in a recent post, the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion last month featured a session on the new book Opening the Field of Practical Theology (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014), edited by Kathleen Cahalan and Gordon Mikoski. Recently, the Collegeville Institute blog featured an interview with Profs. Cahalan and Mikoski, […]
"Who Can 'Afford' Practical Theology? On 'Opening' and 'Closing' the Field"
Recently, on this blog, Dr. Katherine Turpin inaugurated the idea of sharing what we’re currently thinking about and reading in practical theology. I’ve been thinking about how practical theology ‘works’ and ‘doesn’t work’, for whom, and why. At the recent Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, in San Diego, I gave a paper […]
Post-AAR and Moving Forward
Thank you to our panelists at our AAR session on training practical theologians for emerging spaces of employment, and a special thank you to Prof. Jaco Hamman (Vanderbilt) for presiding. We have several “next things” on our plate: continued updates on our website; potential further rollout of social media; an email survey of our members; […]