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Events

During the academic year, we have many events, which address the intersectional issues of racial justice, LGBTQ and gender issues, interreligious collaboration from both a theological as well as an activist lens. Join us for one of our upcoming events or schedule a visit to experience our CTS community.

A full listing of internal and public Seminary events can be found on our Community Calendar.

If you are a CTS student, faculty, or staff and wish to have an event added to the website or community calendar, submit our Add an Event Form.

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06apr5:00 pm6:00 pmObenhaus Lecture with Zach SelbyThe Violent Herem: Spatial Transformations of Class Status in the Book of Joshua5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

07apr12:00 pm1:00 pmWednesday ReflectionsWith guest speaker Syda Segovia Taylor12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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With Special Guest Syda Segovia Taylor

Translating Love into Action:

We can use various methods and frameworks when trying to create change. From community organizing to a prayer chain, we know we need large masses of people to aim towards the same goal for a social action and sustainable change. How does an idea become an actionable step towards for the betterment of the community? How do three people turn into having buy-in and excitement from 20 organizations? Let’s explore some practical steps on how to co-create with like-minded individuals and communities.

Syda Segovia Taylor has 25 years of experience connecting opportunities with Black and Latino youth and families in Chicago. She prides herself of being a social justice advocate by promoting the oneness of humankind, environmental justice and physical/spiritual health. Syda is the new founder and executive director of a nonprofit called Organic Oneness established in 2020. Together with her 9 board members, countless volunteers and multitude of community partners, they promote the interconnectedness of all people and the Earth through community trainings, programs, and events. Organic Oneness is also building structures to help social activist prevent illness, burn-out, and compassion fatigue.

WEDNESDAY REFLECTIONS continue at CTS through the academic year. Invited speakers, community partners, and members of our community will gather with the intention of putting our faiths into action. Engaged discussion will give space for many voices to share. We come together to inspire, encourage, and challenge one another to use our voices, bodies, and spirits to build the world we believe is possible. Join us.

Zoom link: https://qoo.ly/35cj3m

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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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11apr7:00 pm8:30 pmThe Holocaust Service of Remembrance and Lecture with Dr. RayMoral Reckoning: Geographies of Goodness and Evil7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

14apr12:00 pm1:00 pmWednesday ReflectionsWith guest speaker Rev. Alan Conley12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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With guest speaker: Reverend Alan B. Conley

Join us as Rev. Conley discusses religious and cultural diversity in Chicago Public Schools and how Covid-19 has affected that.

Reverend Alan B. Conley is a 21st century communicator of the Gospel who happens to know that 90% of ministry is fulfilled outside of the pulpit. Being raised in the Baptist tradition in his youth and the Pentecostal tradition in his teenage years, has enabled Reverend Conley to have a greater respect for all denominational distinctions. He believes that we are all a part of God’s Kingdom regardless of race, denomination, or creed.

Reverend Conley presently serves in the third largest school district in the U.S. as the Director of the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. As the Director of the Office of Faith Based Initiatives, Reverend Conley has been influential in cultivating faith-based partnerships across various faith distinctions city-wide. Through these partnerships, the Office of Faith Based Initiatives have supported over 10,000 students. Under Reverend Conley’s leadership, the Office of Faith Based Initiatives continue to help promote the success of parents, schools, and students.

Reverend Conley is also the founder and CEO of Beyond the Brick Ministries who works diligently to inspire people around the world through unconventional acts of kindness and media production. On the eve of Thanksgiving 2020, Beyond the Brick launched the pilot for their inspirational digital series titled, Unconventional.

Reverend Conley believes that, “It takes a healthy village to raise a healthy child,” and ultimately his purpose is to help sustain the relevancy of faith and community with all of the gifts and talents that he has been granted.

Zoom link: https://qoo.ly/35cj3m

Time

(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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15apr3:00 pm4:30 pmPublic Square LectureWith Keynote Speaker Kamal Sinclair3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

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Join the CTS community on Ap 15 for a Public Square Lecture featuring Kamal Sinclair!

Making a New Reality Together

Story is the code for humanity’s operating system. We’ve used stories to communicate knowledge, prescribe behavior, and imagine our futures since our earliest days. Story and narrative are how we design everything from the technology we invent, to the social systems we implement, to the norms in which we perform our identities, to perhaps the mutations of our very DNA. Stories we tell now will write the next operating system for humanity. Are we making a reality we want?

We are in a fundamental disruption to human communication akin to the disruption of mass media 500 years ago. However, this is not just another expansion of scope, scale and efficiency, it is one that results in systems that can independently think, exist in every object or structure, and integrate with our bodies. It is the most complex, abundant and dynamic communication and information system in human history. How will we use this infrastructure to make stories that make our reality? Who will make these stories?

Future Architect, Kamal Sinclair, shares insights from a two year research project on equality in emerging media commissioned by Ford Foundation’s JustFilms in partnership with Sundance Institute’s New Frontier program.

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Kamal Sinclair, is making the world more beautiful as the Executive Director of the Guild of Future Architects and artist at Sinclair Futures. She served as an External Advisor to the MacArthur Foundation’s Journalism & Media Program, a Creative Advisor to For Freedoms (the largest collective art project in US history), a member of Sharon Chang’s Family Office (Dream Office of Imaginary Friends) and as an advisory board member of MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality, Starfish Incubator, and Eyebeam.

Previously, was the Director of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs Program for seven years, which supports artists working at the convergence of film, art, media and technology. During that period, she consulted for the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program on a research project aimed at furthering equality in emerging media, which resulted in “Making a New Reality.”

Sinclair got her start in emerging media as an artist and producer on Question Bridge: Black Males. At Question Bridge, where she and her collaborators launched a project with an interactive website and curriculum; published a book; exhibited in over sixty museums/festivals.