Transitions

With the NABPR and CTS conference in the books it is time to transition to my project for the CIVA Just Art conference at Wheaton.  In just over a week I will be heading out to join other scholars, artists, ministry professionals to explore the roles of faith, justice and the arts.  It looks to be a great conference with exhibitions, quality presenters and presentations.  

As I often do, I tend to bite off more than I can realistically chew.  I love conferences in theory (and in actuality as well once my responsibilities for it are over).  I hate passing up opportunities to present my research so when the call for papers came I waited until the last moment to throw my proposal out there.  With the exhibition last week and Maymester the two previous weeks, the paper has sat dormant for some time.  Thankfully I did have some time to work on it at the CTS conference while I was attending to the gallery.  

My paper will explore the thought of Johann Baptist Metz, a German Catholic political theologian and use his thoughts to engage the work of recent Guggenheim recipient Daniel Heyman.  The papers (for good and ill) are only 15 minutes...which actually makes it quite a bit harder to layout Metz' project and make coherent connections to Heyman.  But it is exciting to actually be writing this paper that came to mind last year at the CTS conference in San Antonio. In the coming days, I will post briefly about my progress and overall thoughts on their work.  Stay tuned...

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