Spirituality: Interfaith Professional Activity

INTERFAITH PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

June 2017-July 2018 Co-Chair: Edmonton North American Interfaith Network Planning Committee.

June 2014-2016 President: Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action

September 2015-2016 Visiting Fellow: Institute of Christian Studies and Society: Concordia University.

June 2012-2014 Vice President: Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action.

INTERFAITH CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:  

Pacific Northwest AAR/SBL Conference, May 22, 2021, Seminar Presentation, “Eco-Justice and the Nature God Who Doesn’t Resurrect: Sir James Frazer, Jessie Weston, and the Poetry of T.  S. Eliot.” Virtual Conference.

Visiting Academic Fellow, Institute for Christian Studies and Society, January 29, 2018, Seminar Presentation, Concordia University, “Matters of Matter, Mater, and God: T. S. Eliot’s Poetic Prophesy of The Death of God, the Debasement of the Feminine, and the Desecration of Creation.” Edmonton, AB.

North American Interfaith Network 2017 “Connect” Conference, August 8, 2017.  Seminar Presentation, “E Pluribus Unum: Plurality, not Sameness.”  San Diego, CA.

Visiting Academic Fellow, Institute for Christian Studies and Society, October 26, 2016.   Seminar Presentation, Concordia University,“Take a Trip with Swedenborg and Blake.”  Edmonton, AB.

North American Interfaith Network 2016 “Connect” Conference, July 13, 2016.  Seminar Presentation, “Toward a Spiritual Eco-Justice: James A. Nash and the Virtue of Frugality.”  Guadalajara, Mexico.

Visiting Academic Fellow, Institute for Christian Studies and Society, February 23, 2016.  Seminar Presentation, Concordia University, “Myth, Metaphor, and the Limits of Language.”  Edmonton, AB.

Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action.  March 14, 2014. “Swedenborg’s Symbolism in the Poetry of William Blake.”  

American Academy of Religions Conference.  November 9, 2009.  “Gender Imagery as a Metaphor for God-Human Conjunction: A Comparison between Tantric Hindu Shakta Yoga and Emanuel Swedenbrg’s Theology of Mystical Marriage.” 

University of Alberta. April 16, 2007. “The Modern City as a Place of Alienation from Creation and Creator in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot.” Symposium on Religion and Place.