Join us as we launch Prof. Mona Tokarek LaFosse's Honouring Age: The Social Dynamics of Age Structure in 1 Timothy (McGill-Queen's University Press), a new reading of an enigmatic Christian text shaped by an investigation of ancient Mediterranean experiences of age. Wednesday, January 31, 4:30–6 p.m., Emmanuel College Chapel (EM319, third floor) and Online
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Rimbala is an evidence-based falls prevention program that uses music as the principle means of intervention. Based on the work of visionary Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Rimbala enjoys one of the highest falls prevention results in the world, with a 54% reduction in falls for community-dwelling seniors. Older adults improve their gait (walking style), mobility, cognitive skills and social intelligence in a relaxed but joyous setting. The improvised music brings fresh neuroplastic...
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 7–8:30 p.m., Emmanuel College Chapel, free, in partnership with the University of St. Michael’s College. This talk will focus on the centrality of spirituality within indigenous art practice and curation in Canada through a discussion of Professor Maria Hupfield’s work.
Friday, Sept. 29, 6–7:30 p.m., Emmanuel College Chapel and Online, free, register at uoft.me/vaage Join us for the launch of "Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle: Essays on the Legacy of Paul" (McGill-Queens 2023), edited by Christopher B. Zeichmann and John A. Egger. Published in honour of Leif E. Vaage (Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Emmanuel College), "Recovering an Undomesticated Apostle" presents Paul as a man operating from a position of desperation, making virtue out of necessity...
In Celtic wisdom the sacred is as present on earth as it is in heaven, as immanent as it is transcendent, as human as it is divine, as physical as it is spiritual. –John Philip Newell, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul In 2016, John Philip Newell began a teaching initiative that is called The School of Earth & Soul. Its purpose is to reawaken awareness of the sacred in all things through the recovery of Celtic wisdom for today and to help translate this awareness into compassionate action. The...