Practicing Radical Advent

Sr. Laurie Brink, OP, PhD will come to The Well to present on her latest book, Practicing Radical Advent on December 1st! Whether starting a job, beginning a new relationship, moving to a new place, retiring from an old job, or wading through the waters of grief, we all experience the challenge of change. The question for us becomes how do we respond to it? Are we cemented into our past or are we able to set off toward a new horizon? By tracing the essential steps for crossing major thresholds—receiving an invitation, choosing to go forward, discovering a new vocation, crossing boundaries, weighing costs, recognizing destinations, seeking reconciliation, and changing expectations—we come to see that we are not alone on this journey. Nor are we the first to have passed this way.

A Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa, Laurie Brink (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor of New Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union and New Testament Book review editor for The Bible Today. She teaches courses in the Gospels, Acts, NT Letters, and Early Christian literature. Her current research and pedagogical interests include contextualization and hermeneutics particularly the intersection of science, theology, and religious life.

As a Dominican, she is keenly interested in promoting biblical literacy and to that end has given presentations throughout the U.S. and in Australia, Bolivia, Israel, Jamaica, New Zealand, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Trinidad & Tobago.