The 2024 Bicentennial Historical Lectures (Week 1) — Led by Prof. Jon Butler, Yale University

1905: The Burning of Saint Thomas and the Crisis of Religion in Modern Manhattan

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This talk is part of the 2024 Bicentennial Historical Lectures.

The fire that destroyed Saint Thomas Church in August 1905 (which tragically repeated the 1851 burning of Saint Thomas’s original sanctuary) plunged the congregation into a double crisis.Read more…

Church, Social Justice, and Civil Society (Week 5): The Church and Community Organizing: A History of Mutual Entanglement — Sunday Theology Talks

Led by Dr. Nicholas Hayes-Mota, Assistant Director of Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy

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This talk will explore the historical connection between the Christian church in the U.S. and the Alinsky tradition of community organizing, from which contemporary “faith-based community organizing” derives.Read more…

Sunday Theology Talk: Theologies of Engagament

Led by Dr. Sean Larsen of Marquette University on Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 10am on the 5th floor of the Parish House and via Zoom.

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This talk will discuss how Christians have defined justice, human dignity, and the common good and then look at some of the ways they have pursued the common good.Read more…