When we started this podcast, we at the Bernardin Center knew it would fill a multitude of niches: Not only does a podcast make a space for academic conversations that advance scholarship and foster professional networking, but a podcast is also a ministerial project, preaching - as the CTU mission statement calls us - “Christ’s good news of justice, love, and peace.”
This podcast is also a creative project, one that allows the Bernardin Scholars to have an additional creative outlet during their course of studies. Like writing, painting, singing, and other forms, there is an art to have a good conversation.
This intersection of academia, spirituality, and creativity is the topic of this month’s Department of Nuance episode. We talk about everything from writer’s block to the troubles of contemporary digital brand, and how these dry spells and moments of discernment are chances to tune in to the Spirit moving and making within each of us.
Our Bernardin Scholar cohost this episode is Marissa Papula, Director of Campus Ministry at Loyola Marymount University, writer, and 25-26 Fellow with the Christian Century’s Narrative Project.
Our guest this episode is Cameron Bellm, writer of poems and prayers. She holds a PhD in Russian Literature, and her new book, The Sacrament of Paying Attention, is forthcoming.
Cameron and Marissa both work for the Jesuit Media Lab, a multidisciplinary incubator for creatives inspired by Ignatian spirituality.
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