“I like to think of community organizing as a sacred task,” Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble says in her interview for her latest installment of GTUx’s Spiritual Care and Ethical Leadership lecture series. In this interview, Dr. Miles-Tribble reminds us that a community of a few can become a mighty force for change and shares how community […]
At the time the war began I was studying at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. The array of emotions that overcame me when I first learned about the attack are not easy to describe. When my city was bombed and shelled and I was saying goodbye to my parents and friends over the […]
Dr. Jennifer W. Davidson, Dean and John Dillenberger Professor of Theology at the GTU, joins other GTU professors, students, staff, and alumni in GTUx’s Spiritual Care and Ethical Leadership for our Times library with her conversation on “Ethical Leadership x Brave Space.” In this offering, Dr. Davidson speaks about creating a “brave space” in the […]
Activate your New Year’s resolutions to be a part of something bigger this year with GTUx content focused on social justice. From full-length Originals to short inspirational lectures, these GTUx offerings will help you ring in the new year with content to jumpstart productive discourse and driven action. Explore new offerings alongside some of our […]
Mother Earth suffers from the tentacles of white supremacy. For centuries, white supremacist ideology and practices led to the creation of the Transatlantic Slave trade, global genocides, colonization, imperialism, environmental racism, and ecocide, to name a few. Ecological crises ravage Mother Earth from raging fires, climate change, ocean pollution, and animal extinction. These manufactured ecological […]
Perhaps our GTUx Original Psychedelics and Religion Part 1 and Part 2 have piqued your curiosity on psychedelics, or you’ve followed the topic for years. To help you further your knowledge and understanding of the topic of psychedelics, we created a collection of resources. These resources include documentaries and series to stream online now, recent […]
The act of ritual elevates everyday actions into sacred rites: a walk becomes a pilgrimage, the consumption of bread becomes the ingestion of the sacred, or an act of coming together becomes a life changing event. Enacting these modern and ancient rituals into every day life becomes a means of transcendence. Somehow, by the very […]
In exploration of finding new pathways for consciousness and spiritual exploration, GTUx examines the intersection of Dharma studies and psychedelics with Dr. Laura Dunn, the GTU faculty member behind the latest GTUx lecture “Dimensions of Hinduism.” In this fascinating interview with Dr. Dunn, she examines the ways in which certain yoga and tantric traditions intersect […]
In keeping with GTUx’s examination of “Politics and Religion,” our most recent GTUx lecture, “Dignity and Justice: Welcoming the Stranger at the Border,” explores the juncture between the laws of our country and the dictates of sacred scriptures surrounding immigration. Linda Dakin-Grimm, a pro bono immigration lawyer with decades of experience, offers compassion focused practices […]
The interplay between religion and politics is top of mind for many Americans in today’s political climate. From the dramatic impacts of recent Supreme Court rulings to revelations surfaced by the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, religiously informed tropes, models, and ideologies are increasingly playing […]