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SUMMARY:Imagine Iliff: Admissions Informational Session
DESCRIPTION:Inside Iliff: Admissions Informational\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				Register Now\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Imagine what you can do with Iliff. \nCurious about theological education or wondering where an Iliff degree might take you? \nJoin us online for a relaxed\, no-pressure conversation with Iliff students\, staff\, leadership\, and our Admissions team. Bring your questions. Explore our graduate programs. Hear from the people who make Iliff\, Iliff.
URL:https://www.iliff.edu/event-calendar/imagine-iliff-admissions-informational-session/
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SUMMARY:Pulpit+ Exchange with Eric C. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Pulpit+ Exchange with Eric C. Smith\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Join us for Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series\, an inspiring series of in-person and virtual gatherings where clergy\, lay leaders\, activists\, scholars\, ministers\, journalists\, and community organizers come together to wrestle with the most pressing questions of our time. Together\, we’ll explore powerful stories of hope\, healing\, and action—each rooted in a shared vision of justice and liberation. \nLife in Authoritarian and Autocratic Times: Lessons from the Book of Acts \nGovernment agents rounding people up on the streets. Prisons crowded with ethnic and racial minorities. Increasing political violence and violent rhetoric. Wealth concentrating in the hands of the few\, and public officials on the take. Politicians insisting that up is down and falsehood is truth. \nAround the world and in the United States\, autocratic and authoritarian governments are on the rise. We live in a time of surging nationalisms\, swelling xenophobia\, and attacks against cultural and academic institutions. The Book of Acts was written two thousand years ago in very different circumstances\, but it has something to say about the kind of world we are living in now. Acts describes the way governments deploy violence and prejudice to meet their aims. Acts follows its heroes into prisons\, where people like Paul and Peter and Silas languish in captivity for other people’s political purposes. We see mob actions\, economic protectionism\, and the twisting of history to suit the narratives of power. \nDrawing from two new books about power\, violence\, and the Book of Acts\, Dr/ Eric C. Smith\, Associate Professor of Early Christian Texts and Traditions at Iliff\, will offer lessons from Acts for life in authoritarian and autocratic regimes. We will notice the patterns and habits of power found in Acts\, and we will pay attention to how those same patterns show up in our own world. And–drawing from the experiences of Jesus’ first followers in the wake of the crucifixion–we will identify strategies for resisting the demands of power and for organizing ourselves to share resources\, find common purpose\, understand each other across differences\, and live against the grain of the power and violence of our times. \nDetails: \nMonday\, October 19  \n5:00 – 5:45 PM (MST): Light meal and connection \n5:45 PM: Lecture begins\, followed by Q&A and deep discussion \nLocation: In-person at Iliff or online via livestream. Unable to attend in person? Register to receive the livestream link.
URL:https://www.iliff.edu/event-calendar/pulpit-exchange-with-eric-c-smith/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261026T170000
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SUMMARY:Pulpit+ Exchange with Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Pulpit+ Exchange with Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Join us for Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series\, an inspiring series of in-person and virtual gatherings where clergy\, lay leaders\, activists\, scholars\, ministers\, journalists\, and community organizers come together to wrestle with the most pressing questions of our time. Together\, we’ll explore powerful stories of hope\, healing\, and action—each rooted in a shared vision of justice and liberation. \nMr Jesus: Faith in the Age of AI \nWhat is real in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? How does our faith inform what is real\, and who ultimately gets to decide our reality? Join us for a special screening of the short film Mr Jesus\, followed by discussion and Q&A exploring profoundly human questions about faith\, purpose\, and our individual and collective use of technology. About the film: Mr Jesus is a sharp\, satirical film about a down-on-his-luck actor who wakes up one morning to discover that his image has been stolen to make a GenAI Jesus\, and now everyone believes he’s the Second Coming. \nRev. Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi is associate dean of non-degree programs and associate professor of leadership and formation at Iliff School of Theology. She is a collaborator on the Mr Jesus film project\, helping to create a discussion guide for congregations and religious organizations to use in hosting screenings. Through Kristina’s involvement\, Iliff School of Theology is also a partner in this endeavor. To learn more about Mr Jesus and how to host a screening\, visit the film’s website \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 SPECIAL GUEST: Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark\,  the #1 crowdfunding platform in the world for storytellers on a mission to make entertainment more diverse\, inclusive\, connected\, and essential. Seed&Spark’s platform and national education program have helped thousands of bold storytellers raise over $86M\, and the count is growing.  Emily is dedicated to making the resources for creators to build independent\, sustainable careers free and accessible\, co-creating the Crowdfunding Playbook and The Distribution Playbook. \nShe has produced films\, VR\, shorts and series that have premiered at Sundance\, SXSW\, Slamdance\, Tribeca and more. She produced RATIFIED\, a feature documentary about the 100+ year struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment\, which premiered on Independent Lens on October 20\, 2025\, and her new film MR JESUS is now hitting festivals. Both were crowdfunded. She is also the co-founder of tech justice collective (m)otherboard\, which nurtures the social practices of connection\, community\, and governance that restore human agency\, dignity\, and care. \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Details: \nMonday\, October 26 \n5:00 – 5:45 PM (MST): Light meal and connection \n5:45 PM: Lecture begins\, followed by Q&A and deep discussion \nLocation: In-person at Iliff or online via livestream. Unable to attend in person? Register to receive the livestream link.
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SUMMARY:Pulpit+ Exchange with Malaika W. McKee-Culpepper
DESCRIPTION:Register Now\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Pulpit+ Exchange with Malaika W. McKee-Culpepper\n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				 Join us for Iliff’s Pulpit+ Exchange Series\, an inspiring series of in-person and virtual gatherings where clergy\, lay leaders\, activists\, scholars\, ministers\, journalists\, and community organizers come together to wrestle with the most pressing questions of our time. Together\, we’ll explore powerful stories of hope\, healing\, and action—each rooted in a shared vision of justice and liberation. \nMoqueca as Welcome Table Theology: Extending Dr. Rachel Harding’s Vision Toward an Oceanic Commons \nIn There Is a River\, Dr. Vincent Harding set out to offer a “rigorous analysis of the long black movement toward justice\, equity and truth\,” while giving himself permission to celebrate it. He called that movement a river\, and the Harding and Freeney family has long been a confluence within it. \nThe family’s charge was teaching\, scholarship\, theology\, and the arts. Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Harding took up all four and added a fifth: nourishment of the soul\, mind\, and body. A poet and scholar of Afro-Atlantic religions\, she carried the river farther south\, to Salvador\, Bahia\, where her study of Candomblé\, A Refuge in Thunder\, showed how enslaved and freed Africans made spaces of refuge and belonging. With her mother\, Rosemarie Freeney Harding\, she wrote in Remnants of the hospitality at the foundation of their family’s spirituality. From this work came her idea of a “welcome table”: a confluence of practices long known to carry the work of social justice\, resting on critical scholarship in liberation theology and emerging understandings of the political status of Blackness. Those who knew her also tasted the idea. She could quiet a room with a pot of moqueca\, the Bahian seafood stew she served to friends\, students\, and elders alike. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Malaika McKee gives Rachel’s vision formal language as welcome table theology and carries her recipe out to sea as social justice scholarship and praxis. She argues that the scholarship and the stew are one work\, and that the oceans\, which supply its ingredients\, are humanity’s shared welcome table: the meeting point where something as simple as hospitality asks hard questions about equity\, fairness\, social justice\, and planetary safety. Who is served first? Is there still enough in the pot? What happens when the table is depleted? This is a liberation theology grounded in the theory of the commons and practiced at the tables where we meet to create justice. \nExpect an evening of story\, scholarship\, and remembrance\, followed by open dialogue. Scholars\, practitioners\, and all who knew a Harding table are welcome. \nDr. Malaika W. McKee-Culpepper is an Assistant Professor of Education Policy\, Organization\, and Leadership and an Assistant Professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She was a contributing member of a University of Illinois team that received the 2016 HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum Steering Committee created this award to recognize noteworthy achievements by users of high-performance computing (HPC)\, including simulation\, AI\, other advanced analytics\, quantum computing\, and other methods and technologies.          \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. McKee-Culpepper has published the following:                                                                             \n\n\nBrown\, N. M.\, Mendenhall\, R.\, Black\, M.\, Moer\, M. V.\, Flynn\, K.\, McKee\, M.\, Zerai\, A.\, Lourentzou\, I.\, & Zhai\, C. X. (2019). In Search of Zora/When Metadata Isn’t Enough: Rescuing the Experiences of Black Women Through Statistical Modeling. Journal of Library Metadata\, 19(3-4)\, 141-162.\nMendenhall\, R.\, Linear\, T. I. A.\, McKee\, M. W.\, Lamers\, N. A.\, & Mouawad\, M. B. (2017). Chicago African American mothers’ power of resistance: Designing Spaces of Hope in global contexts. Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research\, Policy and Praxis\, 12\, 409-428.\nMendenhall\, R.\, Van Moer\, M.\, McKee\, M.\, Brown\, N.\, Lourentzou\, I.\, Zerai\, A.\, Black\, M. L.\, & Flynn\, K. (2016). Rescuing Lost History: Using Big Data to Recover Black Women’s Lived Experiences. In Proceedings of XSEDE 2016: Diversity\, Big Data\, and Science at Scale Article a56 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 17-21-July-2016). Association for Computing Machinery.\nAragon\, A.\, Culpepper\, S. A.\, McKee\, M. W.\, & Perkins\, M. (2014). Understanding Profiles of Preservice Teachers With Different Levels of Commitment to Teaching in Urban Schools. Urban Education\, 49(5)\, 543-573.\n\n\nDetails: \nFriday\, October 30 \n5:00 – 5:45 PM (MST): Light meal and connection \n5:45 PM: Lecture begins\, followed by Q&A and deep discussion \nLocation: In-person at Iliff or online via livestream. Unable to attend in person? Register to receive the livestream link.
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