Inculturation Archives - Page 5 of 22

Founding a Benedictine monastery near Nairobi

As mentioned in my last post, early October found me in Nairobi for a second time in three years, teaching monastic art as part of

Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth

October 21, 2018 Bruce Morrill Inculturation Music: General Sacramental Theology Social Justice

Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.

A new conference for Kenyan contemplative nuns

October 1, 2018 Sr. Jeana Visel, OSB Inculturation Religious life

The spirit of the Church is alive and well in these growing African communities.

Vatican Conference: Church and Composers

September 26, 2018 Paul Inwood Inculturation Music: General

Tthe whole conference was a very worthwhile meeting of cultures, minds and hearts.

Civic celebration or Christian funeral? The memorial for Sen. John McCain

September 2, 2018 Lizette Larson Funerals/Burial Inculturation

It was a lab for what we do and what we believe about death and liturgy, and an incredibly confusing one at that.

Ordination to Sacramental Priesthood: Traditional, Communal, Familial

September 2, 2018 Bruce Morrill Eastern Liturgy Ecumenism Inculturation Ordained Ministry

The community exuded a practical, liturgical and communal, ecclesiology of their corporate baptismal identity as “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9) through not only their robust engagement in the Divine Liturgy but also their affective, and thus effective, hospitality to us.

Wrestling with Words: Inclusive Language and the Difficulties of Prayer

July 20, 2018 Fritz Bauerschmidt Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy Inculturation Liturgical Spirituality

We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.

Pedro Arrupe on Inculturation

July 14, 2018 Audrey Seah Inculturation Saints / Mary

On the feast of Pentecost in 1978, he wrote a letter to all members of the Society of Jesus about inculturation which contains a definition of inculturation that almost every contemporary work on liturgical inculturation employ or at least makes mention of.