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Scholar-in-Residence Lectures featuring Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

March 21–30, 2017 - Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Poetry, Politics, and Spiritual Practice

In the four featured Scholar-in-Residence lectures this year, author and professor Marilyn McEntyre will explore relationships among three dimensions of our shared life as people of faith: Poetry, Politics, and Spiritual Practice. What we read – especially when we read formatively and imaginatively – how we vote, buy, and consume, and how we enter into and deepen prayer, worship, and other spiritual practices are closely related realms of choice. It is our speaker's hope that these lectures will invite further conversation, reflection, and mutual encouragement as we seek ways to equip one another for discerning and faithful lives in a time of political tensions, economic anxieties, and dwindling literacy.

Lectures are free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Honors Community of Union University.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyreMarilyn Chandler McEntyre

Dr. McEntyre is professor of medical humanities at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program and is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. She earned her B.A. at Pomona College, M.A. at U.C. Davis, and Ph.D. at Princeton University in Comparative Literature. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, she taught at Princeton University, the College of New Jersey, Mills College, Dominican University and Westmont College. She is the author of 15 books, and her writing has appeared in The Christian Century, Weavings, Sojourners, Prism, Conversations, Christianity Today, Academic Medicine, Medical Humanities, Literature and Medicine, and a variety of other academic and trade publications. She cares about connecting spirituality, politics, food, healthcare, care for the earth and its creatures, care for language and public discourse, and finding new ways to live together on a planet that needs healing. Review her blog, complete with links to her books and some of her shorter works.