At the heart of Christian faith is a shocking claim: God became human and died. It is the story of a man who bore profound humiliation, exposure, and shame, placing God not in sanitized spirituality but in the raw realities of birth, desire, touch, and harm. This evening will explore how Christ's embodied life and death confront our cultural stigmas toward bodily trauma and reveal a salvation that reaches into our most fragile places, resurrecting and blessing scars rather than erasing them.Dr. Hill serves as Assistant Professor of Integrative Theology at Richmont and the Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program. ln 2021 he completed a Ph.D. in Theology at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, having previously completed an MLitt degree in Analytic and Exegetical Theology from the Logos Institute at St Andrews. He has released his first coauthored book with Scott Harrower and Joshua Cockayne entitled Dawn of Sunday: The Trinity and Trauma-Safe Church (Cascade) and is releasing his first edited volume entitled Christ and Trauma: Theology East of Eden (Pickwick Publications). Dr. Hill is also ordained in the Anglican tradition and is a pre-licensed clinical pastoral therapist.

<description>&lt;p&gt;At the heart of Christian faith is a shocking claim: God became human and died. It is the story of a man who bore profound humiliation, exposure, and shame, placing God not in sanitized spirituality but in the raw realities of birth, desire, touch, and harm. This evening will explore how Christ's embodied life and death confront our cultural stigmas toward bodily trauma and reveal a salvation that reaches into our most fragile places, resurrecting and blessing scars rather than erasing them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Hill serves as Assistant Professor of Integrative Theology at Richmont and the Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program. ln 2021 he completed a Ph.D. in Theology at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, having previously completed an MLitt degree in Analytic and Exegetical Theology from the Logos Institute at St Andrews. He has released his first coauthored book with Scott Harrower and Joshua Cockayne entitled Dawn of Sunday: The Trinity and Trauma-Safe Church (Cascade) and is releasing his first edited volume entitled Christ and Trauma: Theology East of Eden (Pickwick Publications). Dr. Hill is also ordained in the Anglican tradition and is a pre-licensed clinical pastoral therapist.&lt;/p&gt;
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At the heart of Christian faith is a shocking claim: God became human and died. It is the story of a man who bore profound humiliation, exposure, and shame, placing God not in sanitized spirituality but in the raw realities of birth, desire, touch, and harm. This evening will explore how Christ's embodied life and death confront our cultural stigmas toward bodily trauma and reveal a salvation that reaches into our most fragile places, resurrecting and blessing scars rather than erasing them.

Christ & Trauma: Theology East of Eden with Rev. Dr. Preston Hill

In today's landscape of digital interactions, many people long for deeper connections. We have a desire to move from being lonely and disconnected in our relationships to be seen, known, and wholly loved. From friendships to romantic relationships, meaningful and genuine personal connections remain our heart's desire.College chaplain Rev. Erin Moniz is deeply attuned to the questions and concerns of today's emerging adults. In Knowing and Being Known, she explores the essential elements of healthy relationships, addresses the complexities of intimacy, and shines a light on the barriers that can impede genuine connection. With her compelling storytelling and expert insights from her research with emerging adults, she emphasizes the significant role of identity and self-worth in fostering meaningful relationships. This comprehensive resource goes beyond the subject of sex, providing a holistic perspective on intimacy that resonates with single emerging adults and married couples alike.Begin to experience healthy relationships and transform your relational world as you ask better questions to get better answers. To know that we are loved by God is to know our identity in Christ. And this knowing provides us the tools and the path to a healthy, sustainable intimacy that allows us to be at home in our fullness in the gospel and with each other.——Rev. Erin F. Moniz (DMin, Trinity School for Ministry) is a deacon in the Anglican Church in North America and associate chaplain and director for chapel at Baylor University, where she disciples emerging adults and journeys with them toward healthy, gospel-centered relationships. She is a trained conciliator, mediator, and conflict coach. She enjoys content creation, playing music, being outdoors, and narrating the inner monologue of her two cats. She lives in Waco, Texas, with her husband, Michael.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In today's landscape of digital interactions, many people long for deeper connections. We have a desire to move from being lonely and disconnected in our relationships to be seen, known, and wholly loved. From friendships to romantic relationships, meaningful and genuine personal connections remain our heart's desire.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;College chaplain Rev. Erin Moniz is deeply attuned to the questions and concerns of today's emerging adults. In Knowing and Being Known, she explores the essential elements of healthy relationships, addresses the complexities of intimacy, and shines a light on the barriers that can impede genuine connection. With her compelling storytelling and expert insights from her research with emerging adults, she emphasizes the significant role of identity and self-worth in fostering meaningful relationships. This comprehensive resource goes beyond the subject of sex, providing a holistic perspective on intimacy that resonates with single emerging adults and married couples alike.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Begin to experience healthy relationships and transform your relational world as you ask better questions to get better answers. To know that we are loved by God is to know our identity in Christ. And this knowing provides us the tools and the path to a healthy, sustainable intimacy that allows us to be at home in our fullness in the gospel and with each other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;——&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rev. Erin F. Moniz (DMin, Trinity School for Ministry) is a deacon in the Anglican Church in North America and associate chaplain and director for chapel at Baylor University, where she disciples emerging adults and journeys with them toward healthy, gospel-centered relationships. She is a trained conciliator, mediator, and conflict coach. She enjoys content creation, playing music, being outdoors, and narrating the inner monologue of her two cats. She lives in Waco, Texas, with her husband, Michael.&lt;/p&gt;
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Recorded live at Theology on Tap on 10/28/25. 
In Knowing and Being Known, Rev. Erin Moniz explores the essential elements of healthy relationships, addresses the complexities of intimacy, and shines a light on the barriers that can impede genuine connection. 

Knowing and Being Known with Rev. Erin Moniz

“The Subversive Prophetic Imagination: How the Arts (and Brueggemann) Can Help Us Navigate the Rise of Christian Nationalism” with Dr. Mary McCampbellDoors 6:30pm, Lecture 7:00pmIn these painful, divisive times, it is helpful to trace the reality of prophetic truth from the God-spoken messages of the Old Testament prophets to the subversive works of artists resisting the “empire.” Dr. McCampbell will use the framework provided in Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination and examples from the arts to illustrate the power of the age-old fight against cultural Christianity. Artists discussed include Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Banksy, Yaa Gyasi, Flannery O’Connor, Sho Baraka, and others.Dr. Mary McCampbell is a literary scholar, cultural critic, professor, and author of Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy (Fortress Press, 2022). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Douglas Coupland’s Literature & Art (Bloomsbury 2026). Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she has taught courses on postmodern theory, popular culture, and the intersection of theology and the arts. Her academic publications include chapters and articles on Jesmyn Ward, Chuck Palahniuk, Sufjan Stevens, Douglas Coupland, C.S. Lewis, and Sho Baraka, among others. Her public-facing writing has appeared in publications such as Image Journal, Christianity Today, The Other Journal, Relevant Magazine, and The Curator. She was the 2014 Writer-in-Residence at the UK branch of L’Abri Fellowship and a 2018 Scholar-in-Residence at Regent Theological College in Vancouver, Canada. She writes weekly at <a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmarymccampbell.substack.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExZENmRnlKcldpRE91NWU1QQEeaBg15kSIsqXL3T5J85p2-KWRi9C-eBSLkIeQVxVZ0AcSDGZcORBjywU7e8g_aem_MXileci3iUUVw3MPMfagCg&h=AT0Ld35cR39V4-QQiljw4__G1nHcqjf2T91TgxMhr4G9TmGUyD1twmQFEbdFFY6TNqqfhnz8DbQ3kUk7gPYW3tQLjKO1yB-n_Y9YvrMCbEbthqRs_Oz-7od72Un1Oy9OXb0CfipeTaFc1RRAYCE&__tn__=q&c[0]=AT3TRFWbcvWevwtfwTPMxiKoXSXuSu5X2FDqymTh_Kym9hLHwqpd4ebrW1l-y2LJPqyhJ_IxplKygvkAz21hahp71usvqcgOusTZ1ylOF-kASuxRMnvUT6McCciBPib4b8XCcPr_r1Moe5viWa5YfdVr_lpd4RxrnhI" target="_blank">https://marymccampbell.substack.com/</a>.

<description>&lt;p&gt;“The Subversive Prophetic Imagination: How the Arts (and Brueggemann) Can Help Us Navigate the Rise of Christian Nationalism” with Dr. Mary McCampbell&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Doors 6:30pm, Lecture 7:00pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In these painful, divisive times, it is helpful to trace the reality of prophetic truth from the God-spoken messages of the Old Testament prophets to the subversive works of artists resisting the “empire.” Dr. McCampbell will use the framework provided in Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination and examples from the arts to illustrate the power of the age-old fight against cultural Christianity. Artists discussed include Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Banksy, Yaa Gyasi, Flannery O’Connor, Sho Baraka, and others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Mary McCampbell is a literary scholar, cultural critic, professor, and author of Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy (Fortress Press, 2022). She is co-editor of the forthcoming Douglas Coupland’s Literature &amp; Art (Bloomsbury 2026). Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she has taught courses on postmodern theory, popular culture, and the intersection of theology and the arts. Her academic publications include chapters and articles on Jesmyn Ward, Chuck Palahniuk, Sufjan Stevens, Douglas Coupland, C.S. Lewis, and Sho Baraka, among others. Her public-facing writing has appeared in publications such as Image Journal, Christianity Today, The Other Journal, Relevant Magazine, and The Curator. She was the 2014 Writer-in-Residence at the UK branch of L’Abri Fellowship and a 2018 Scholar-in-Residence at Regent Theological College in Vancouver, Canada. She writes weekly at &lt;a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmarymccampbell.substack.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExZENmRnlKcldpRE91NWU1QQEeaBg15kSIsqXL3T5J85p2-KWRi9C-eBSLkIeQVxVZ0AcSDGZcORBjywU7e8g_aem_MXileci3iUUVw3MPMfagCg&amp;h=AT0Ld35cR39V4-QQiljw4__G1nHcqjf2T91TgxMhr4G9TmGUyD1twmQFEbdFFY6TNqqfhnz8DbQ3kUk7gPYW3tQLjKO1yB-n_Y9YvrMCbEbthqRs_Oz-7od72Un1Oy9OXb0CfipeTaFc1RRAYCE&amp;__tn__=q&amp;c[0]=AT3TRFWbcvWevwtfwTPMxiKoXSXuSu5X2FDqymTh_Kym9hLHwqpd4ebrW1l-y2LJPqyhJ_IxplKygvkAz21hahp71usvqcgOusTZ1ylOF-kASuxRMnvUT6McCciBPib4b8XCcPr_r1Moe5viWa5YfdVr_lpd4RxrnhI" target="_blank"&gt;https://marymccampbell.substack.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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In these painful, divisive times, it is helpful to trace the reality of prophetic truth from the God-spoken messages of the Old Testament prophets to the subversive works of artists resisting the “empire.” Dr. McCampbell will use the framework provided in Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination and examples from the arts to illustrate the power of the age-old fight against cultural Christianity. Artists discussed include Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Atwood, Banksy, Yaa Gyasi, Flannery O’Connor, Sho Baraka, and others.

The Subversive Prophetic Imagination: How Art (and Brueggemann) Can Help Us Navigate the Rise of Christian Nationalism with Dr. Mary McCampbell

Single Christians often encounter the church as a place where marriage and family are lifted up as the main ways to follow Christ faithfully. But there are Bible passages and historical moments that suggest otherwise. In this talk, we'll think through several different ways that Christians in the past have lived out singleness, including being "never married," "dating but not committed," and what happens when a person becomes "suddenly single" because of a spouse's death.---- Jana Bennett serves as the chair of Department of Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton. She is a moral theologian with a wide range of research interests and well-regarded publications, including a book on marriage and singleness (Water is Thicker than Blood: An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness, Oxford University Press 2008) and a book on technology use and theology (Aquinas on the Web? Doing Theology in an Internet Age, Bloomsbury, 2012). She also gives public lectures on marriage and sexuality, Christian asceticism, technology use, war and peace, and environmental care.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Single Christians often encounter the church as a place where marriage and family are lifted up as the main ways to follow Christ faithfully. But there are Bible passages and historical moments that suggest otherwise. In this talk, we'll think through several different ways that Christians in the past have lived out singleness, including being "never married," "dating but not committed," and what happens when a person becomes "suddenly single" because of a spouse's death.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----&lt;br /&gt;Jana Bennett serves as the chair of Department of Religious Studies Department at the University of Dayton. She is a moral theologian with a wide range of research interests and well-regarded publications, including a book on marriage and singleness (Water is Thicker than Blood: An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness, Oxford University Press 2008) and a book on technology use and theology (Aquinas on the Web? Doing Theology in an Internet Age, Bloomsbury, 2012). She also gives public lectures on marriage and sexuality, Christian asceticism, technology use, war and peace, and environmental care.&lt;/p&gt;
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Single Christians often encounter the church as a place where marriage and family are lifted up as the main ways to follow Christ faithfully. But there are Bible passages and historical moments that suggest otherwise.

Singling Out Singles? Reflections on Singleness in the Church with Dr. Jana Bennett

Do you ever feel like you're alone in your struggles to live out the Christian faith? Do you ever read the Bible yet still wonder what it looks like to follow Jesus in the complexity and difficulty of our time? The stories of great men and women throughout the history of the church can help us form a bridge between the teaching of Scripture and our embodied lives. Come and learn about how the saints, from every continent and century of church history, demonstrate the historic church's relevance for Christians today and reveal God's faithfulness in all times and circumstances.Rev. D.J. Marotta is the founding priest of Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of “Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age,” “Our Church Speaks: An Illustrated Devotional of Saints From Every Era & Place,” and co-host of the Our Church Speaks Podcast. His wife is gracious and his children are clever.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Do you ever feel like you're alone in your struggles to live out the Christian faith? Do you ever read the Bible yet still wonder what it looks like to follow Jesus in the complexity and difficulty of our time? The stories of great men and women throughout the history of the church can help us form a bridge between the teaching of Scripture and our embodied lives. Come and learn about how the saints, from every continent and century of church history, demonstrate the historic church's relevance for Christians today and reveal God's faithfulness in all times and circumstances.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rev. D.J. Marotta is the founding priest of Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of “Liturgy in the Wilderness: How the Lord's Prayer Shapes the Imagination of the Church in a Secular Age,” “Our Church Speaks: An Illustrated Devotional of Saints From Every Era &amp; Place,” and co-host of the Our Church Speaks Podcast. His wife is gracious and his children are clever.&lt;/p&gt;
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The stories of great men and women throughout the history of the church can help us form a bridge between the teaching of Scripture and our embodied lives.

Saints Over Celebrities with Rev. D.J. Marotta

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