Musician, Scholar, Creator of Deus Ex Musica
Read moreInsights: Taj M. Smith
Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week our guest is Taj M. Smith, Assistant Director of GLEAN Network.
Taj M. Smith is a Christian and a transman. He did not grow up Christian. He saw Christianity being used to hurt people all around him and learned of its deep roots in colonialism and oppression. He fell in love with it though, after seeing the power of people gathered at church to create change with the message of love and community on their lips. Ever since, he's been invested in liberating Christianity from those who would wield it as a weapon.
He recently graduated from Harvard Divinity School, where he spent a lot of time writing long sentences with long words. He appreciates words, so he now dedicates his time to writing them in smaller, more succinct forms that are pleasing to both the eye and the ear.
He is an avid sci-fi lover and a long-time musician. He also really likes hats.
Insights: Aaron Rosen
Dr. Aaron Rosen is Professor of Religion & Visual Culture and Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Imagining Jewish Art; Art and Religion in the 21st Century; and Brushes with Faith.
Read moreInsights: Eileen Daily
Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week our guest is Eileen Daily, an ARC Member and religious educator scholar interested in the ways art and technology can be part of a person’s spiritual life.
Eileen currently serves as Lecturer and Director of the new Doctor of Ministry degree in Transformational Leadership at the Boston University School of Theology. Her background is in religious and theological education. She is especially interested in how technology can (and should) mediate theological and religious education and is the author and architect of art/y/fact.Xn, an app for mobile devices that helps users make sense of or meditate with Christian artworks in museums, in churches, on the tourist trail or on the Web. Her other research interests are in interfaith religious education, public religious education, and religious education through visual art.
Insights: Shashank Rao
Insights is an interview show featuring members of the ARC community. This week our guest is Shashank Rao, a Hindu theologian-in-progress whose theopoetic work centers on calligraphy and devotional poetry.
Shashank is currently a member of the Sadhana Coalition of Progressive Hindus, a group that seeks to build a progressive, grassroots movement in Hindu communities. His theological work and study centers on the recovery of Hindu resources as a foundation for social justice and meaning-making as a child of the diaspora, focusing particularly on the Asian-American community in a global context. His essays on Medium cover a variety of topics in Hindu theology, ranging from scriptural exegesis to focused explorations of concepts in Hindu traditions, to original works of devotional poetry in various languages. Utilizing a wide variety of traditional and contemporary resources, he seeks to probe the possibilities of Hindu and Asian diasporic religious contemplation.
More information about Shashank is available at https://medium.com/@shashankrao_84497
