Join your friends from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and other Texas seminaries for drinks, conversation, and light snacks.
Attention authors and friends of Baker Academic & Brazos Press: Join us for our annual reception! Connect with authors, friends, staff, and partners of Baker Academic and Brazos Press over drinks and hors d'oeuvres. We hope to see you in San Antonio!
Friends of Eerdmans: Please join us for light food and refreshments to catch up with old friends and make new connections. We look forward to seeing you there!
A year in the life of a radically inclusive ministry tells the story of a fourteen year old LGBTQ congregation in Atlanta, Georgia. The documentary invites those who engage this work to hear, see and feel the participants story. A story that amplifies the truth of their being created in the image of God, created by God and what it means to live as a person of faith who are LGBTQ or a queer ally. This is a Black Church story, a story about the Black Church and a call to the Black Church to be an inclusive Church.
Fifty years ago William Friedkin adapted William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist into a full length feature film and turned the world of religious horror on its head. The Exorcist remains a cultural touchstone half a century after its release and created not only room for further films dealing with supernatural religious horror, but also inspired generations of exorcists off the silver screen. We invite you to a screening of this classic in preparation for two dedicated panels the following day.
This is an experimental video essay (25 minutes) that attempts to turn both a rejected academic paper and a failed job talk (recording) into video art. Titled "Thought in Reality," the broad topic of the film is the question "where does thinking take place?" as it juxtaposes video footage of an academic talk (a campus visit job talk that did not result in a job) given in a typical ugly college classroom with a collage of photography, video, color scapes, and other visual objects. The film unfolds over 5 sections that deal with epistemological, religious/theological, and scientific categories related to the conditions and sources of thinking and creativity. It also offers a tacit critique of academic conditions of thinking that poses the academy and contemporary job market against the uncontainable sources of nature and the apophatic outside of what Edouard Glissant calls the "chaotic flux of evolving culture." Centered on passages taken from Edouard Glissant's *Poetics of Relation,* Niklas Luhman, Jacques Derrida, and Sylvia Wynter, and Hortense Spillers, the audio text of the film represents a kind of poetic transformation of a traditional academic text (one that was rejected by an academic journal) set in a visual medium.
