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 […]
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; […]
Job Posting: Practical Theology, Charles Sturt University
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APT President's Letter 2014
Dear APT Members: Every fall, the APT president sends a letter to the membership with updates about our Association. Below, please find a link to this year’s letter. We look forward to the APT at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego in November — and beyond! Presidents_Letter_2014
Brief Reflections on Practical Theology in Amsterdam
I am on the way home from the International Academy of Practical Theology, which met in Amsterdam, Holland over the last several days. The theme of the conference was “desire,” and the 120 or so in attendance heard thoughtful and challenging plenary addresses on desire as seen from cultural studies, pastoral, ethical, and theological perspectives. […]
Explaining Practical Theology to Each Other
I am in Amsterdam for the biennial meeting of the International Academy of Practical Theology, a gathering of more than a hundred scholars of practical theology from around the world. This will be my third biennial, having attended Berlin (2007) and Chicago (2009), and on the flight over from New York, I noticed the same […]