{"id":22237,"date":"1998-09-28T14:14:52","date_gmt":"1998-09-28T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22237"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:37:52","slug":"marvin-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/09\/28\/marvin-ellison\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian ethicist to discuss spirituality and justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvin Ellison, Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary, will discuss <em>The Spirituality of a Justice-Lover<\/em> Thursday, Oct. 8, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall. The public is invited to attend the Spiritual Journeys lecture at Bates without charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ellison has taught Christian social ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary since 1981 and is director of the seminary&#8217;s Portland campus. He co chairs Maine&#8217;s Religious Coalition Against Discrimination and is a member of the Maine Bioethics Network board of directors. He speaks nationally on human sexuality, economic justice and health-care ethics. His most recent book is titled <em>Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality<\/em> (Westminster\/John Knox Press, 1996).<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates, the Spiritual Journeys lecture series features speakers from a variety of traditions who tell the stories of their spiritual awakening and development. Speakers are invited to explore how they experience a sense of the holy in their everyday lives, how their perspectives and disciplines have shaped that sacred experience, and how they understand religion as a resource or an obstacle to the life of the soul. Speakers may also address what the political and social consequences of their spirituality.<\/p>\n<p>Next in the Spiritual Journeys series will be Cristina Vanin, assistant professor of religious studies at St. Jerome&#8217;s University, Waterloo, Ontario, on<em> Conversion to the Earth: A Theologian&#8217;s Spiritual Journey<\/em> Monday, Oct. 12, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvin Ellison, Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary, will discuss &#8220;The Spirituality of a Justice-Lover&#8221; Thursday, Oct. 8, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall. The public is invited to attend the Spiritual Journeys lecture at Bates without charge. Call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11648,8087],"class_list":["post-22237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92508,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22237\/revisions\/92508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}