Continuing Education Events and Courses

Alway/Emmanuel Symposium – Bridges and Boundaries: Religious Diversities in the 21st Century Classroom

Jan. 12–14, Emmanuel College and the University of St. Michael's College, click here for full details and registration

About the Symposium

Interreligious teaching and learning is happening both in classrooms (including in professional schools with a secular mission and in theological schools founded in a sectarian tradition), as well as outside of classroom contexts in social movements and activism circles. This conference investigates important questions that are related to interreligious teaching and learning both in and outside of classrooms. For example, what wise practices for bridging different identities and contexts have emerged in interreligious contexts? What boundaries remain important to observe and what boundaries can be redefined? How do we practice interreligious teaching and learning in ways that promote social justice?

Free to attend, but registration is required.

Keynote Speaker

Marianne Moyaert – Nostra Aetate: What Has It Taught and Mistaught Us about Interreligious Dialogue?
Sunday, January 12, 7 p.m., Father Madden Hall (100 St. Joseph St.), University of St. Michael's College

Marianne Moyaert specializes in the (comparative) theology of religions, interreligious hermeneutics, research into the religio-racial constellation and Jewish-Christian relations. She has a particular interest in the ritual and material dimensions of interreligious encounters.

Questions? Email Wendy Cranston.

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Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, 7 to 9 p.m., Emmanuel College Chapel, Free

Yeshu Satsang Toronto has hosted a free monthly Indian devotional music night at venues across the GTA since 2009.  Blending traditional Indian instruments such as sitar and tabla with a western music education, husband-wife duo Chris Hale and Miranda Stone sing in Hindi, Sanskrit and other North Indian languages, accompanied by Luke Parker on harmonium.

In 2002, Miranda was touring her third folk-rock album, 7 Deadly Sins, and met Chris at a music festival.  The two of them fell in love with each others’ music, and eventually each other, before getting married in India in 2004.  

Chris had recently returned from having lived in South Asia for 25 years. His interest in bhajan and kirtan musical traditions led him first to write a masters thesis on the subject, alongside of his role as guitarist and vocalist for a touring Indian rock band in the 90’s.  Returning to North America in 2000, Chris co-led the band, Aradhna, producing eight albums of Hindi language devotional music; a hybridization of traditional bhajan, western folk, and post-rock.

A student of world music, Hindi language, and piano, Luke magically appeared at the key moment when Yeshu Satsang Toronto was in desperate need of a sensitive and dedicated harmonium player. With a superhuman patience for riding the waves of husband-wife musical discussions, Luke is the third, absolutely essential, strand in the bond of shared spiritual practice, deep listening, community, humour, and ecstatic music in celebration of the Divine.

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Thursday, February 13, 2025, 5–6:30 p.m., Emmanuel College Chapel and Online, Free, click here to register

Soul Care for Self-Injury: Theological Reflection and Spiritual Care Strategies, a new book by Amy Panton, assistant professor of practical theology at Emmanuel College. Through a thoughtful theological lens, Amy explores the complexities of self-injury, offering insights and spiritual care strategies for those who support individuals on their healing journey.  At the event, Amy will engage in a conversation with Dr. Iris J. Gildea and Shauna Kubossek, discussing key insights from the book, followed by an open Q&A session. Attendees will have the chance to purchase copies of the book with a 10% discount. There will also be food and fun giveaways! 

Target audience: spiritual care providers, psycho-spiritual therapists, practical theology students, youth workers, friends and family members of people who self-injure, members of the disability community, mental health researchers, social workers, and people with lived experience of self-injury. 

	Shauna Kubossek, PhD Candidate at Emmanuel College, Associate Editor Mad & Crip Theology Press
	Dr. Iris J. Gildea, Associate Professor of Book & Media Studies, St. Michael's University College
	Amy Panton, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Emmanuel College, Editor Mad & Crip Theology Press

 

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