Imagining Community Within Chaos:
Re-membering, Re-energizing, and Futuring Practical Theology

Online Meeting, April 1-2, 2022

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Friday, April 1 (all times listed in US mountain time):

8:30-10:00 a.m. (10:30 EST) Opening and Plenary Panel Discussion: “What Happened?: How Practical Theology Went Public in the Pandemic”

Speakers:

• Laura Kelly Fanucci, Author, Speaker
• Rev. Dr. Boyung Lee, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty,
  Professor of Practical Theology, Iliff School of Theology
• Lahronda Little, Interim Director of the Women, Theology, and Ministry Program at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Doctoral Student
• Dr. Lynne Westfield, Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

10:15-11:45 a.m.
Knowledge Collaborations, Part I

Collaboration 1: Youth Work and Neurodiversity: Creating Curriculum with and for Neurodivergent Young People

Convenors:

• Michael Paul Cartledge, Princeton Theological Seminary
• Dr. Erin Raffety, Princeton Theological Seminary

Collaboration 2: Emerging Scholars Research Collaborative

Convenors:

• Seán McGuire (McMaster Divinity College)
• Beth Gould Nolson (McMaster Divinity College)
• Dale Sanger (McMaster Divinity College)

Collaboration 3: An appreciative inquiry exploring a practical theology of belonging

Convenors:

• Saiyyidah Zaidi, Student-University of Glasgow, Faculty Member-Meyler Campbell, Certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator
• Professor John Swinton, Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Collaboration 4: Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations: Innovation Amidst and Beyond COVID-19

Convenors:

• Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, Iliff School of Theology
• Allison Norton, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace

Collaboration 5: Practical Theology and Climate Crisis: What Work Has Been Done and What Contributions in Teaching and Research Can Be Made?

Convenors:

• Jennifer Ayres, Emory University and Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Collaboration 6: Anti-colonial Moves in Practical Theology

• Christine J. Hong, Columbia Theological Seminary
• Annie A. Lockhart-Gilroy, Phillips Theological Seminary
• Anne Carter Walker, Phillips Theological Seminary

12:00-12:45 p.m.
Small Group Mentoring Conversations

Mentors:
Jaco Hamman, Emmanuel Lartey, Boyung Lee, Joyce Mercer, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Evelyn Parker, Phillis Sheppard, Mai-Anh Le Tran, Claire Wolfteich

1:00-2:30 p.m.
Research Presentations I

Group A:

• Eliana Ah-Rum Ku, “The Practice of Lament to be a (Yeon) Community: Remembering and Reconnecting the Experiences of Suffering to Nurture Life beyond Surviving”
• Katherine M. Douglass, Seattle Pacific University; Brittany Tausen, Seattle Pacific University, “Dehumanization and Neighbor Love: The Collaborative Challenges of Interdisciplinary Work between Practical Theology and Cognitive Psychology

Group B:

• Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University “Secularization Factors in a Catholic Parish”
• Paul Momoh,The BiMAL Institute (FReN-Australia), “Influence of secularization on spiritual practices at Evangelical theological Colleges (three Australian case studies)”
• Lori Giacchetta, McMaster Divinity College, “Spiritual Formation in Secular Spaces: The Evolution of Spiritual Journeys in Hospital Chaplaincy”

Group C:

• Dr Christopher Turner – Stirling College, University of Divinity (Melbourne, Australia)- “Critical Self Reflection: Epistemic Sensitivity in Reflective Practice”
• Michael Woolf, Harvard University- “Power, Agency, and Practice: Practical Theological Engagement with Judith Butler’s Theories of Subjectivation”

2:45-3:45 p.m.
Co-conspirator Vocational Conversations (peer-resourcing)

• Surviving as an “only” on my faculty (only queer person, only racial-minoritized from a particular group, only non-Christian, only international, etc.)
• Getting research/writing done with a heavy admin/teaching load;
• Also a parent/caregiver during work/life context collapse;
• I have one big project left in me…discerning/completing the final season of faculty life;
• Doctoral student gathering;
• I started a new job in the pandemic;
• Addressing Burnout and Had-Enough-of-This: finding ways to sustain good work without harming ourselves;
• Teaching Practical Theology in Spanish;

3:45-4:00 p.m. 
Collective Exhale (plenary)

Saturday, April 2:

7:45 am- 8:30 am
Publishing in Practical Theology Information Session (plenary)

Speakers:

• Ingrid Heijckers-Velt, Associate Editor at Brill Publishers
• Phillis I. Sheppard, Vanderbilt Divinity School
• Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt Divinity School

8:30-9:45 a.m.
Knowledge Collaborations, Part II

10:00-10:45 a.m.
APT Business Meeting/Community Celebrations (plenary)

Presiding: Dr. Katherine Turpin, Iliff School of Theology

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Research Presentations II (2 groups)

Group D:

• Tom Beaudoin, Fordham University, “A Pantheon Research Project as Practical Theology”
• Soren M. Hessler, Huron University College, “Administrative Practices of Theological Schools Informed by Institutional History: A Practical Theological Approach to Archives, Records, and Contemporary Policy-Making Processes”

Group E:

• Sarah Ann Bixler, Eastern Mennonite Seminary “Investigating Adolescent Attachment in Congregations”
• Adam Toler, Yale Divinity School, “A Comparative Phenomenological Study of Substance Use and Religious Practice in Celebration and Coping

12:45-1:00 p.m.
Ritual Closing (plenary)