News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Join Christin Hancock, Rachel Wheeler, and Alexandra Stewart, historian, theologian, and German studies professor, as they share discrepancies and surprising overlaps in the ways in which their distinct disciplines illuminate the complexities of women’s lives across centuries. Tuesday, March 21, Brian Doyle Auditorium, Dundon-Berchtold Hall, 5 p.m. Free and open to all. Info at up.edu/garaventa or 503-943-7702. ADA compliant event.
Rachel Wheeler, theology, invites all UP community members to join in forming an emotional resilience working group beginning June 2021 and running through May 2022. Forming such a group means willingness to grow and support the growth of others, a time commitment of 2 hours/month for meetings, and creating and sustaining together a confidential and safe space for meeting. For more information or to express desire to form such a group, email Wheeler at wheelerr@up.edu.
The Department of Theology will host a Theology Celebration and Open House on Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m., in the Terrace Room. Fellowship, food, and fun await all who attend, and all are welcome. Graduating theology majors will be honored starting at 6:30 p.m. All prospective theology majors and minors are encouraged to come and meet faculty and students and learn more about the department.
For more information contact Rachel Wheeler, theology, at wheelerr@up.edu.
Rachel Wheeler, theology, will present “Greening the Desert: Reading the Desert Fathers and Mothers in a Time of Ecological Crisis” on Thursday, February 15, at 7:15 p.m., in Franz Hall room 120. Her talk is free and open to all. Wheeler will be sharing stories and teachings from the late antique Christians known as desert mothers and desert fathers. Their stories and teachings reveal profound experience of God, commitment to specific and experimental forms of Christian discipleship and spiritual companionship, and a response to the natural world characterized by curiosity and love. By interpreting their stories and teachings in light of contemporary ecological crisis, Wheeler will demonstrate how “greening the desert” results in a reevaluation of, and deepened appreciation for, the virtuous qualities these individuals’ lives disclose—qualities such as attentiveness, restraint, perseverance, and hopefulness.
For more information contact the theology department at theology@up.edu.