The Enhancing Life Project

Good Friday is different in this year. Isolation characterizes our lives all over the world. Good Friday is the day of isolation - but it carries also the hope that isolation will not go on forever. Heike Springhart and Earlybirdpictures made a filmed prayer. It comes from a church in Pforzheim / South Germany, which was built in 1947/48 with the bricks of the destroyed houses in Pforzheim after the bombings at the end of WW II. It was payed by churches all over the world, especially the US and is a strong sign of resurrection. We stay connected and we go on in trying to contribute to the enhancing of life.

Karfreitag 2020 Johannesgemeinde Pforzheim mit Pfarrerin Heike Springhart Zum Karfreitag 2020 ist hier ein Gottesdienst aus der Auferstehungskirche Pforzheim zu sehen. Durch die Corona-Situation ist es nicht möglich, öffentliche Go...

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This Is Enhancing Life The Third residency seminar and Capstone Conference in Chicago, 2017.

Now at the AAR: William Schweiker, Günter Thomas and Heike Springhart on enhancing life, vulnerability, and humanism!

Professor William Schweiker kicks off a new extended issue of the Religion and Culture Forum with his essay, “Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom.” The November-December issue features the Enhancing Life Project, which takes aim at addressing one of the most basic human questions—the desire to enhance life.

Over the next month and a half, Enhancing Life scholars associated with the Divinity School will share essays and reflections on the Enhancing Life Project that will explore its implications for their own scholarship and teaching.

Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom | Religion & Culture Forum

"As a biblical scholar, I seek to learn from early Christians and how they resisted dangerous claims of the Roman Empire with alternative, life-giving visions for the future.

The Roman Empire proclaimed its own official political eschatology of Roma Aeterna—Empire without End—as evidenced in its images, monuments, and slogans. I saw this Roman eschatology first-hand, on an archeological trip to Greece and Turkey. Everywhere we went we saw statues of Nike, the winged goddess of military victory." — Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

Healing Eschatology: Enhancing Life or Enhancing Empire? | Enhancing Life Project Can the catacomb art of Rome help us respond to Doomsday warnings with transformative action and hope?

"Through echo, one can discover she is not alone in her opinions, that there are others who share her concerns, who affirm her worries and respond to her hopes."

In Favor of Echoing | Enhancing Life Project In the age of the “echo chamber effect,” can echoing be redeemed?

After a great start of the Capstone Conference yesterday, day 2 with a rich program is running.

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Resilient Democracy in Theory and Practice: A Q&A with Michael Hogue | Enhancing Life Project How understanding communities’ particular vulnerabilities is interconnected with developing more resilient societies

Weekend at the summer residence seminar means time for walking, working and writing. Surrounded by the full life of family reunions. And we will welcome the early career scholars rather soon.

A lot of enhancement is going on these days in Lake Lawn.