Past events
Dialogues on Divinity - Sarah Coakley
Monday, February 5, 6:30 pm
The Rev. Sarah Coakley will lead a discussion on how ‘desire’ in the Bible, and in classic theological and monastic Christian literature, cuts across and challenges the presumptions of the ’sexualization’ of desire in contemporary Western culture.
Professor Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity emerita, the University of Cambridge, and a priest in both the Anglican and Episcopal Church.
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Dialogues on Divinity - Amy-Jill Levine
In conversation with Cathedral Dean Patrick Malloy
Monday, January 15, 6:30 pm
Amy-Jill will discuss with us how the Parable of the Good Samaritan raises necessary questions about neighbors and strangers, stereotypes and prejudice, complacency and challenge, even questions about history, colonialism, and liberation.
A world-renowned scholar, Amy-Jill Levine is currently the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. She is also University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, and Professor of New Testament Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University.
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Dialogues on Divinity - David Ford
Monday, October 9, 6:30 pm
Join the Community at the Crossing for a panel discussion with David Ford, author of “The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary.” He will be joined in conversation by Canon Sarah Snyder, founder and director of the Rose Castle Foundation, an inter-Faith peace-building organization, and Micheal O’Siadhail, distinguished Irish poet.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
David Frank Ford, OBE is an Anglican public theologian. He was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge beginning in 1991.