Second Saturday Conversation – October 11, 2025

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Our next Second Saturday Conversation is October 11, 2025. And we have a special guest, Arthur Dewey. He is Professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. A New Testament scholar, Art has written extensively about Paul, Jesus, the Gospel of Thomas, the passion narrative. He is also part of the Westar Institute and was involved in the work of the Jesus Seminar. Arthur is also a poet.

Art Dewey will help us explore language and imagination, what is real and what is hope. Of interest to Second Saturday folks, Art knew Amos Wilder (1895-1993), an early voice in Theopoetics and the religious imagination. (I provide a quote below from Wilder.)

Here is Art’s invitation to us:

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“Don’t you know that you’re in heaven?”

Non sai tu che tu se ‘in cielo? Para. 22.7

A conversation on the edge of things with Art Dewey.

How do we talk to each other about what counts, especially in our present situation? We are inundated with data, desperate over the constant undermining of our civil life, paralyzed by the oncoming tsunami of climate change, distracted by screen upon screen. How do we begin to weave some sense in our lives? Perhaps we start by remembering, by taking small steps into the interior.

But what happens when we stop and make the effort to look beyond the literal? Do we have any companions in this curious enterprise? Is consciousness more than an isolation booth? Could it be that we are entangled in more than meets our eye? What if Truth itself is more than fact? What happens if we meet the unforgettable? Do we even have words for this?

Would you like to talk?

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I think I can speak for all of us on who engage in Second Saturday Conversation: Yes, we would like to talk! But first we will listen. On October 11, 2025.

All are welcome. All our sessions are free. But you must RSVP to receive a link for our Second Saturday Conversation on October 11, 2025. We begin at 9:30 am pacific time. We close at 11:00 am pacific time.

I look forward to our time with Arthur. He gets us. He is a companion in the fragile craft of saying the unsayable, a fellow traveler through the landscapes and inscapes of our deeply entangled lives. Join us for A Conversation on the Edge of Things with Art Dewey.

A quote from Amos Wilder:

“It is at the level of the imagination that the fateful issues of our new world-experience must first be mastered. It is here that culture and history are broken, and here that the church is polarized. Old words do not reach across the new gulfs, and it is only in vision and oracle that we can chart the unknown and new-name the creatures. Before the message, there must be the vision, before the sermon the hymn, before the prose the poem. Before any new theologies however secular and radical there must be a contemporary theo-poetic.” (Italics mine.)

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