Neuroscience and Catholics

Neuroscience and Catholics Blog

The 2011 REA Annual Meeting “Brain Matters” sparked several interesting questions for religious education. This blog is dedicated to continue discussion regarding the relationship between the brain, science and the formation of Catholics. Maureen O’Brien and Bob O’Gorman invite you to join in the conversation.

• Cátedra Paulo Freire 2024, March 14-15, Free 26 February 2024
  Join us for the Cátedra Paulo Freire 2024, held in-person and online on March 14–15. In the contemporary landscape of global education, the rise of hate, greed, prejudice, and authoritarianism poses significant challenges to the principles of critical pedagogy. As we traverse the educational landscape of the 21st century, Cátedra Paulo Freire 2024, “Navigating Educational Landscape in ...
• Response to what is happening in Israel and Palestine 12 February 2024
  The REA Board of Directors has met several times in recent months to discern our most appropriate response as a membership organization about the happenings in Israel & Palestine. The Board followed the Protocol for Public Statements developed by the Public Life Committee in 2021. As these meetings and discussions took place, several members of ...
• Director of Formation & Recruitment, Church Divinity School of Pacific 25 January 2024
  CDSP is an Episcopal seminary shaped by the West Coast context.  The Director of Formation and Recruitment is a full time, exempt staff position that fulfills a variety of administrative, formative, and pastoral episodic roles at the institution. Primarily this role ensures a premier experience of student life and formation from application through graduation and ...
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Practical Theology, YDS 19 January 2024
  Conectere is an interdisciplinary project to support secure Christian parenting and caregiving, through research and resource development. Conectere resources parents and caregivers in culturally attentive ways of relating with children, so that the sharing of faith and values is complemented by secure relational practices – a combination shown by research to make faith transmission across generations most effective. ...
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice Academy of Fellows 4 December 2023
  Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance is pleased to invite applications for sponsorship to the Rice Academy Postdoctoral Fellows Program. The two-year Rice Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to exceptional scholars who have recently earned a doctoral degree in any area and who want to pursue research with faculty at Rice ...
• Union Presbyterian Seminary to Inaugurate Rev. Dr. Rebecca L. Davis as the Sarah Belk Gambrell Professor of Christian Education 17 November 2023
  Charlotte, NC (November 16, 2023)—On December 2 at 11:45 a.m., Union Presbyterian Seminary will formally inaugurate Rev. Dr. Rebecca L. Davis as the Sarah Belk Gambrell Professor of Christian Education at Sharon Presbyterian Church. To read the complete press release about the Inauguration, please click this link.
• REA LGBTQ+-Allies Working Group – Fall Gathering, Dec 2 14 November 2023
  The LGBTQ+ – Allies Working Group will be having a Fall gathering on Dec 2(Saturday), 9.00am-11.00am (Eastern Time). Sheryl A. M. Metzgner will be sharing her research entitled ‘Homesteading’ on theJourney of LGBTQ Spirituality: Movements of Making a Home for the Self.  Sherylis in our working group and she is currently a Doctoral Researcher in the Department ofTheology and Religion ...
• Networking Coordinator of the Religious Education Association  17 October 2023
  Networking Coordinator of the Religious Education Association – You are invited to apply for the position of Networking Coordinator. Dr. Mary Hess has retired after eight years of dedicated service in the position. We currently have the wonderful Dr. Eser Kim as our interim Networking Coordinator for one year. The primary tasks of the networking coordinator ...
• REA Dinner @ AAR 14 October 2023
  There is still time to sign up for the Wabash-sponsored dinner gathering at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting in San Antonio next month. See details in the announcement below. Reservation responses by November 1st appreciated. REA Dinner @ AAR Sunday, November 19, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Location: A local San Antonio restaurant (TBA) An informal gathering and conversation about teaching and learning for ...
• Director of Ministerial Formation Position, Saint John’s University Graduate School of Theology and Seminary at Collegeville, MN 12 October 2023
  Saint John’s University Graduate School of Theology and Seminary at Collegeville invite applications for a full-time Director of Ministerial Formation. We seek candidates whose research, teaching, and ministerial service prepare them to direct the ministerial formation and field education programs of the School of Theology and Seminary (SOT/Sem) and to teach graduate courses in pastoral ...