It has been a while since my last update (July). Overall things have been well with a number of highlights on various fronts:
1.Family: summer saw me spending time with mother in the village at Malube, and with family & kids (nieces, nephews, grandnieces/nephews) at Bethany House. Pictures capture some of the moments:
2.Bethany Land Institute: News of a grant from the Italian Bishops Conference (beginning of summer) gave a good jump start for fundraising efforts for the construction of phase one of the campus – and hopefully for a 2019 official launch. Summer also saw me spending time “on the ground (land)” working with staff, board and other meetings. Again, pictures tell the story better than words:
In the meantime, a recently released podcast interview (Near and Far) captures the BLI journey: https://soundcloud.com/user-597480973/putting-laudato-si-into-action-in-uganda
3.Research: The end of July found me in Sarajevo, attending and speaking at the 3rd International conference of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church. Over 400 theologians from around the world! In the final plenary, I presented “Seven Emerging Convictions of Prophetic Theological Ethics for the World Church.” Read my presentation here:http://emmanuelkatongole.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CTEWC-Sarajevo-2018.pdf
In the meantime, on my sabbatical research project, Who Are My People, jointly funded by the Luce Fellowship in Theology and Contending Modernities, I finished up with the interviews over the summer, and am in the process drafting the five chapters of the book. See my “Excess of Love in the Oasis of Peace,” a blog entry following my visit to Maggy Barankitse’s “Oasis of Peace.”
The following report, to be presented at the ATS Luce Fellowship meeting in Pittsburg early next month, offers a good overview of the research project.
Here is the PDF of the Report: http://emmanuelkatongole.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Who-are-My-People-ATS-Report-2.pdf
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