Saturdays at Seven Conversation Series

In the forty-seventh episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Sarah Coakley, the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity Emerita at the University of Cambridge. Coakley opens by discussing the complicated distinctions between constructive theology and systematic theology. Coakley’s work reflects some of the qualities of constructive theology…

In the forty-sixth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Andrew Davison, the Regius Professor of Divinity and Residentiary Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, University of Oxford. Davison begins by discussing the arc of a vocational discernment process that led him from completing a D.Phil. in…

In the forty-fifth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with David I. Smith, Professor of Education and Director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin University. Smith opens by discussing the development of the scholarship of teaching and learning. 30 years ago,…

In the forty-fourth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Jonathan Y. Tan, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor of Catholic Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Tan begins by offering an overview of the impact Vatican II had on what is now referenced as world…

In the forty-third episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Peter W. Marty, Editor and Publisher of The Christian Century. Marty opens by discussing the theological commitments that prove imperative when coming to terms with grace. When doing so, he compares the commitments Dietrich Bonhoeffer noted…

In the forty-second episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Pamela Ebstyne King, the Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science and Executive Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development at Fuller Theological Seminary. King begins by differentiating between flourishing and thriving, terms that…

In the forty-first episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Molly Worthen, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Worthen opens by discussing how her interest in journalism over time also came include serving as a collegiate educator. Few individuals whose…

In the fortieth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with William T. Cavanaugh, Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University. Cavanaugh begins by drawing from his most recent book, The Uses of Idolatry, a means…

In the thirty-ninth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with George Yancey, Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University. Yancey opens by reflecting upon how he makes sense of race relations in the United States since 2010. While the tragic events involving individuals such as…

In the thirty-eighth episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and the Director of the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance at Rice University. Ecklund begins by discussing her understanding of…