Mahle Lecture in Progressive Christian Thought

Each year a progressive religious scholar is invited to campus for several days of speaking and teaching in our community, so that we have the chance to interact with the scholar in a personal way.

Current Mahle Lecture

Hamline University will welcome a series of guest speakers to offer their views on the topic of this year’s Mahle Symposium, “Healing, Wholeness, Holiness: Religious Responses to Trauma and Illness.” Dr. Shelly Rambo, will offer the keynote Mahle Lecture on March 7, 2017.  The title of her keynote, based on her forthcoming book, will be “Resurrection in the Afterlife of Trauma: Making Sense of the Wounds that Mark Us.”

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Past Mahle Lectures

• "Eco-Theology for the Heartland: A Bioregional Approach," Dr. Timothy Eberhart (Spring 2016)
• "Religious Life, Public Life, and the Adventure of Civility," Krista Tippett (Fall 2015)
• "Are the Gospels of Mary, Thomas and Truth Scripture? Imagining New Ways of Reading the Bible in the 21st Century," Dr. Hal Traussig (Spring 2015)
• "Becoming Buddhist When Jesus Isn't Enough: A Third Wave Womanist Negotiation of Race, Gender and Religion," Dr. Monica A. Coleman (2014)
• "Occupy Religion?: Reimagining the God of the Multitude," Dr. Joerg Rieger (2013)
• "World Balance vs. Personal Salvation in American Indian Postcolonial Perspective," Dr. George 'Tink" Tinker (2012)
• "Holy Food & Groceries: How Feeding and Healing Transforms Lives," Sara Miles (2011)
• "Finding Beauty in a Broken World," Terry Tempest Williams (2010)
• "Saving Paradise: A Life-Affirming Christianity for the 21st Century," Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock (2009)