Art and Spirituality
Here’s a talk I gave at my home parish (St. Joseph’s in Michigan):
Faith and Science
Here’s a little lecture I got bullied into doing a few weeks ago:
To Church Servers
Here’s a short talk I gave to some of our Shamashe (subdeacons/liturgical servers) a little while ago that I thought might be edifying enough to share:
Assyro-Chaldean Identity: An Invitation
The contentious issue of the ethnic identity of the indigenous, Aramaic-speaking people of Mesopotamia can lead not only to debate but community division and erasure, and often becomes the instrument of political propaganda and emotional outrage more than calm discussion. Nuance is left behind in favor of oversimplified pandering to one opinion or another, and […]
Narsai on Adam & Eve
Here’s a talk I did for the Oxford Interfaith Forum this week: It goes into more detail than my lecture on the same memra in my Narsai Lecture Series, and for the first time in my life I made a powerpoint. Special thanks especially to the very kind Sebastian Brock.