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.

Spring 2020 Mahle Lecture

The Spring 2020 Mahle Lecture will be held February 25th at 7PM in the Kay Fredericks Ballroom. Please check back soon for more information on our speaker, their schedule, and educational opportunities.

The Spring 2020 Mahle Lecture will be held February 25th at 7PM in Sundin Hall. This year's speaker is Bishop Karen P. Oliveto from United Methodist Church Mountain Sky Area. Bishop Oliveto is the first openly LGBTQ+ Bishop in the UMC, and she will engage with campus community and congregations about the challenges and opportunities of the United Methodist Church's current struggle to be "together at the table" and yet open to new paths. The tentative schedule for her visit is:

February 23

- 10AM Service at Hamline Church

- To Be Announced (PM) with Minnesota Methodists

February 25

- 4PM Conversation with Two Bishops, Kay Fredericks Ballroom

- 5:30–6:45PM Reception, Kay Fredericks Ballroom

- 7PM Keynote Lecture, Sundin Hall

FEBRUARY 26

- 10:30AM District Ash Wednesday Service, Hamline Church

- 7PM Ash Wednesday, Hamline Church

Past Mahle Lectures

• "Goddess and God in the World: Conversations in Embodied Theology." Dr. Carol P. Christ and Dr. Judith Plaskow (Fall 2018)
• "Hearing Earth in our Time: Ecowomanism, African American Women, and Earth-Honoring Faiths." Dr. Melanie L. Harris (Spring 2018)
• “Healing, Wholeness, Holiness: Religious Responses to Trauma and Illness.” Dr. Shelly Rambo (Spring 2017)
• "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)