In-person November Annual Meeting 2026 Program Book

This is an annual worship gathering for those associated with the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. All are welcome.

All are welcome. For information, contact Cyndi Parker at narrativeofplace@gmail.com.

Learn alongside interdisciplinary and multi-school teams of faculty in progressive theological graduate schools as we embark on a project to co-create educational resources and courses for faith communities and their leaders in this digital age. This session will include a mini-workshop on asynchronous teaching to resource ongoing work among current participant faculty and schools. Early project assessment will offer ideas for replicating the process among different schools and settings. Explore your school’s participation in this collaborative Initiative.
Since 2023, a small group of graduate schools in the United States and Canada have been collaborating in a theologically aligned / geographically dispersed cross-registration agreement to expand course opportunities for our students. This practice of cooperation now deepens as teams of faculty from these schools collaborate in research, pedagogical design, and practices of constituent-listening.
Please join us for breakfast. For ticket prices and availability, contact Mary Schaller Blaufuss at mblaufuss@eden.edu or 314-918-2537.

Join us for breakfast to learn more about programs and publishing opportunities at the USHMM. The breakfast will be hosted by the Director of the Programs on Religion and the Holocaust and the Director of Academic Publishing in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies within the Museum. Presentations begin at 8:00 am. All are welcome. RSVP to Thornton Muncher, tmuncher@ushmm.org by Nov. 8th.

This is an annual event that celebrates Temple University's Department of Religion ("TUDOR"}, our alumni, current graduate students, former students and our faculty. Friends of the program are all welcome!

The tradition of the Suriyani/Nasrani, or Mar Toma Margam ("way of St. Thomas"), continues to be little known, despite the increasing presence of Malayali Christians around the globe. The Churches of Kerala, today a spectrum of confessions, trace their common history back to the first century C.E., and witness to a longstanding and variegated interaction with the wider environment and ethos of the subcontinent. Their liturgical language of Syriac is a form of the Aramaic spoken by Jesus, a shibboleth marking the distinctiveness of the Nasrani as Middle Eastern in origin and orientation, even while Hindu in custom and conviction. The panel features papers probing the unique vistas and vantage points of the Nasrani.

For those hoping to broaden the reach and creativity of their scholarship, this session will be an opportunity to learn more about publishing creative and pedagogically focused work with the Wabash Center Journal on Teaching. Join us as we explore how reflective, narrative, and experimental writing can function as rigorous scholarship about teaching in religion and theology.

Participants will learn about the journal’s mission and submission possibilities while engaging in generative writing exercises and collaborative discussion. This interactive gathering is designed to support scholars interested in expanding the forms and audiences of their academic work.