March 5, 2022
Found Object Theology: How pulp sci-fi book covers can teach us how to write about God
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October 14, 2021
A Different Kind of Theology: Fiction, Imagination, and New Realities with Bryan Bliss
On Tuesday, October, 12th, 2021, novelist and current UTS student, Bryan Bliss spoke to the Arts Lunch about fiction and its power to heal and transform. (more…)
September 21, 2021
The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power with Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman
On Tuesday September 21, 2021, United professor Jennifer Awes Freeman shared an overview of her new book, The Good Shepherd: Image, Meaning, and Power, with the Arts Lunch. The book traces the motif of the Good Shepherd and its imperial invocations from origins in the ancient Near East to its waning in the European Middle Ages. A more official event will be announced for the spring, so stay tuned! (more…)
July 27, 2021
Drag Theopoetics with Max Brumberg-Kraus
On Tuesday March 2, 2021, United alum Max Brumberg-Kraus ('20) presented to the Arts Lunch on their current work with Drag Theopoetics. A “drag theopoetic” is the theopoetic of the professional or amateur crossdresser who performs in front or with an audience. It is experiencing the divine while being in drag. It is the sacred phenomenon of attending a drag show. Drag Theopoetics is camping the gods. It is the production of another gender or a heightened version of one’s own gender as a means to understand God, the cosmos, and one another. Drag Theopoetics is the sacred rite of gesturing, performing, then becoming a self. (more…)