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6 MAR 2025 · Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Stephanie C. Edwards, as they discuss "Enfleshed Counter - Memory: A Christian Social Ethic of Trauma".
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In a world saturated with trauma, where do we turn for healing and hope? Neither downplaying trauma’s devastation nor rushing toward easy redemption, Stephanie Edwards crafts a Christian ethic of “enfleshed counter-memory” as a framework for grappling with the complexities of personal and collective suffering. Enfleshed counter-memory disrupts cultural narratives that demand forgetting, instead calling us to resist oppressive powers by remembering rightly.
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Stephanie C. Edwards, MSW, PhD, is executive director, Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium (BTI). She is a Catholic ethicist and a social worker who has practiced diverse service delivery and nonprofit management for over a decade.
20 FEB 2025 · Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Daniel Horan, as they discuss "A White Catholic's Guide to Racism and Priviledge".
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This book is conceived as a resource for Catholics—white Catholics, in particular—to begin the work of relearning what racism in the US context is all about. This includes addressing hard realities that white people have typically been able to avoid, due to the blissful ignorance afforded us by an unjust system of racism in the United States and the Church. Among the questions addressed: What is racism? What does it mean to be white? Why is racism a white problem? Why doesn’t anything seem to change? What does the Catholic Church teach about racism? And, where do go from here?
Daniel P. Horan is professor of philosophy, religious studies, and theology, and director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame. He is an affiliated professor of spirituality at Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX, and a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. He is the author of over fifteen books, including two from Orbis: Catholicity and Emerging Personhood and Engaging Thomas Merton.
8 FEB 2025 · Join Robert Ellsberg in this One on One interview with author, Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, as they discuss "Critical Race Theology: White Supremacy, American Christianity, and the Culture Wars".
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In this episode, they discuss the timely and challenging framework of "critical race theology" which draws on insights from critical race theory, Black liberation theology, and prophetic Christianity, Juan M. Floyd-Thomas proposes “critical race theology” to confront racism, exclusion, and oppression within American Christianity and society.
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Juan M. Floyd-Thomas is associate professor, African American religious history, Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. He is co-founder and executive board member of nationally renowned Black Religious Scholars Group (BRSG), and president, Society of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion (SRER). His other books include Liberating Black Church History and, with Stacy Floyd-Thomas Black Church History: An Introduction (both from Abingdon Press).
23 JAN 2025 · Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Melanie Jones Quarles, as they discuss "Up Against A Crooked Gospel: Black Women's Bodies and the Politics of Redemption".
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Drawing upon her grandmother's personal struggles with physical "bendedness" and the narrative of the bent woman in Luke 13:10-17, Melanie Jones Quarles engages Black religious thought and cultural criticism to expose how the Black Church paradoxically nurtures Black women while also sustaining their oppression. Quarles mines the prophetic imaginations of influential womanist thinkers, crafting a liberating vision that resists serving as surrogate "saviors" in society and religion. With insights into politics, Christology, and biblical interpretation, this book boldly calls Black women to unbend their bodies and reclaim their moral agency in the face of crooked systems that attempt to constrain their freedom.
Melanie Jones Quarles is a womanist ethicist, millennial preacher, and intellectual activist. She is assistant professor of ethics, theology, and culture, and director of The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership, Union Presbyterian Seminary. A third-generation ordained Baptist preacher and sought-after lecturer, she is a leading millennial Black religious scholar.
9 JAN 2025 · Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, James T. Keane, as they discuss "Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes: 50 Writers, Thinkers, and Firebrands Who Challenge and Change Us".
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America columnist and Catholic cultural and literary critic, James T. Keane, brings together fifty varied voices--including some underappreciated ones--and reflects on their cultural, political, literary, and religious influence. His smart, accessible style brings thought leaders into conversation with a Catholic sensibility, opening unexpected insights into our current moment.
Among these fifty figures are John Kennedy Toole, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Dorothy Day, Jon Hassler, Mary Karr, Martin Amis, Toni Morrison, Graham Greene, Shusaku Endo, Andre Dubus III, Iris Murdoch, Colm Tóibín, J.F. Powers, Salman Rushdie, Mary Gordon, Wendell Berry, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sigrid Undset, Alice McDermott, and John Irving.
Reading Culture through Catholic Eyes combines Keane’s breadth of knowledge of literary and cultural voices with a deep background in Catholic theology and spirituality. For general readers who appreciate lively and relevant writing, this book is a must-have.
19 DEC 2024 · Join Robert Ellsberg in the latest One On One episode, as he discusses "Dorothy Day: Spiritual Writings".
Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, worked with Dorothy Day for the last five years of her life, including two years as managing editor of The Catholic Worker. He has edited five previous volumes of her writings, including Selected Writings (Christopher Award Winner), her diaries (The Duty of Delight), and her selected letters (All the Way to Heaven).
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Dorothy Day (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, has recently been proposed for canonization. Through her houses of hospitality, the practice of the works of mercy, and her prophetic work for peace and justice, she offered a radical witness to the gospel in action. But it was as much in her everyday life as in her public activities that she expressed her spirituality and found her path to holiness.
This anthology explores the key themes that underlay her spirituality, beginning with the call to see Christ in the poor. Day’s spirituality was deeply influenced by the “Little Way” of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, which showed the path to holiness in the daily exercise of patience, charity, and forgiveness. Dorothy extended this principle to the social dimension, the significance of the little protests we make or fail to make. She believed that each act of love, each witness for peace, increases the balance of love and peace in the world.
5 DEC 2024 · Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Robert Wicks, as they discuss "Let's Look Together: Henri Nouwen as Spiritual Mentor".
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Robert J. Wicks received his doctorate in psychology (PsyD) from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital. Dr. Wicks is professor emeritus at Loyola University Maryland, and has taught in universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, education, counseling, business, and social work. His expertise is in resilience, self-care, the prevention of secondary stress, and the integration of psychology with spiritual wisdom. He has spoken on these topics on Capitol Hill to members of Congress and their chiefs of staff, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the US Air Force Academy, the Mayo Clinic, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Harvard Divinity School, Yale School of Nursing, Princeton Theological Seminary, and to members of the NATO Intelligence Fusion Center. Dr. Wicks has published over 50 books including the bestselling Riding the Dragon: Ten Lessons for Inner Strength in Challenging Times; The Tao of Ordinariness: Humility and Simplicity in a Narcissistic Age; and Bounce: Living the Resilient Life.
14 NOV 2024 · Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and authors, Brian Swimme & Monica DeRaspe-Bolls, as they discuss "The Story of the Noosphere".
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Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a public benefit non-profit that focuses on scientific and interdisciplinary research on the future of human collective consciousness. Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. With Mary Evelyn Tucker, he authored the book and film Journey of the Universe, https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.journeyoftheuniverse.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7CIDeCesaris%40Maryknoll.org%7Ca9742b09abc14f696faa08dcb55bc387%7Cef1a5d44d2e64df18c73db3c27128ee9%7C0%7C0%7C638584652940320434%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JHxoCl2%2F2%2FHfp297A%2Bd8sCNT6fE0PCm2wnwttn1Hg2o%3D&reserved=0.
Monica DeRaspe-Bolles is a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a consultant at The Human Energy Project, Orinda, CA. With Brian Thomas Swimme and Devin O'Dea, she created the popular YouTube video series "Story of the Noosphere." She lives at Blueberry Front, Snohomish, WA, a research center for time-developmental cosmology.
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31 OCT 2024 · Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Libby Osgood, as they discuss "Green Saints for a Green Generation".
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In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis established care for creation as one of the central themes of Catholic social teaching. Yet that ecological consciousness has yet to take root en masse among the Catholic faithful. In Green Saints for a Green Generation young Catholic women on “saints”—canonized and not—who connected their faith to concern for the earth. The writers include a wide range of figures, from the traditional, such as Sts. Clare of Assisi, Ignatius of Loyola, and Marguerite Bourgeoys, to contemporary figures like Thomas Merton, author Toni Morrison, and the Martyrs of the Amazon. By connecting these key figures to environmental responsibility, the contributors encourage the not-yet informed to become active, inviting younger generations to join the ecological movement, to take taking on the responsibility from their elders, and to shoulder the ecological burden for themselves.
Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, CND, PhD, PEng, is co-editor with Kathleen Deignan of Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours (Orbis, 2023). She is also an aerospace engineer who teaches sustainable design engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is a religious sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame de Montreal.
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17 OCT 2024 · Join us in this One on One interview with Robert Ellsberg and author, Joyce Rupp, as they discuss "Vessels of Love: Prayers and Poems for the Later Years of Life".
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Joyce Rupp is well known for her work as a writer, international retreat leader, and conference speaker. She is the author of numerous bestselling books, including Praying Our Goodbyes, Open the Door, and Fragments of Your Ancient Name. Her Orbis books include https://orbisbooks.com/products/prayer?_pos=4&_sid=63adb1a6f&_ss=r; https://orbisbooks.com/products/walk-in-a-relaxed-manner?_pos=3&_sid=63adb1a6f&_ss=r; and https://orbisbooks.com/products/the-cosmic-dance?_pos=2&_sid=63adb1a6f&_ss=r (with art by Mary Southard). Rupp is a member of the Servite (Servants of Mary) community and the codirector of the Boundless Compassion program. She lives in West Des Moines, Iowa.
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Join a One-on-One with Orbis publisher Robert Ellsberg and featured author as they discuss their latest work.
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