On Mortality
How then should we live in light of death?
For the closing of this year's ORIGIN series, Art House Dallas welcomes Fr. Paul Wheatley, professor of New Testament, earth Christianity, and Greek at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, for an evening conversation exploring mortality in ancient culture, especially as it relates to Jesus’ reversal of death in the Gospel of Mark. Fr. Wheatley will also be joined in conversation by Dr. Michael Green, Cardiac Intensivist at Children’s Health.
Beer, wine and snacks will be served. Livestream tickets are also available for this event.
Details:
Date: Wednesday, September 20
Time: Doors at 6:30 pm, Event Begins at 7:00 pm
Location: All Saints Dallas, 901 S Ervay, Dallas Tx 75201
Parking: There is plenty of parking at All Saints Dallas. Please enter by the gates on Cadiz or Ervay St.
About Paul Wheatley: Fr. Wheatley teaches Nashotah House Seminary courses in New Testament, early Christianity, and Greek. His research and teaching interests center on the overlap of liturgy, preaching, and scriptural exegesis in early Judaism and Christianity. This research is currently focused on the Gospels, especially Mark, as well as projects on ritual and liturgy in the New Testament, Biblical interpretation in early Judaism and Christianity, Ancient Apocryphal Acts, and the organization of knowledge in Biblical manuscripts. In his teaching, he wants students to learn to encounter and preach the New Testament as a development of the inherited tradition of the Jewish Scriptures and the earliest Christian proclamation. He is currently finishing a dissertation at the University of Notre Dame on the role of baptismal imagery in the Gospel of Mark.
Fr. Wheatley spent his formative years in the towns of Austin and Denton, Texas. His vocation to ordained ministry came after almost ten years of work in evangelism and discipleship with college students, including two years serving as a missionary to students and refugees in Athens, Greece, from 2007–2009. He has been married to Catherine since 2006, and they have two daughters. His hobbies include playing and listening to music, films, hiking, camping, raising backyard chickens, and teaching his daughters to fish.
About Dr. Michael Green: Dr. Michael Green is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he serves as the Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education. He is a practicing pediatric intensive care physician, working in the Pediatric ICU at Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from Baylor University and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. His residency training was in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, followed by Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Green’s academic interests are in medical education scholarship as well as medical ethics. He has served on the Ethics Committee at Children’s Medical Center for over 10 years. He is married to Jenny and has 3 young children. Outside of work, he enjoys running and reading novels, theology, and history. He and his family are members of All Saints Dallas, where he teaches Sunday School alongside Jenny.
Order the Origin Reader: On Mortality
This anthology is the loving creation of a community of friends in hope of transformation and an ever-deepening faith. As with previous anthologies, each chapter includes an anchor text, poetry, visual art, and scripture, and prayerful reflection. We hope you will find the authors, poets, and artists to be wise guides and friends as you enter into a companioned journey of exploring mortality in Christ through the door of imagination.
This reader is intended to be used alongside the Art House Dallas Origin program, if you are unable to afford this reader and would still love to participate, please fill out this form and let us know your situation.
On Mortality will be mailed to participants. Pickup dates will be available in Dallas as well.
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ABOUT ORIGIN
Origin, an Art House Dallas program, seeks to establish a wholeness and connectedness between spiritual formation, imagination, and the arts with the ultimate intent to establish a sacred perspective on how we individually and collectively live and create. We believe that beauty shown through the arts, culture, and creation holds a powerful ability to form the way we see ourselves, the world, and our interaction with both. As embodied creatures made in the image of the Triune God we must consider the formation of our senses, our emotions, and our ideas. This same incarnate God calls us to be like him in our participation of cultivating goodness, truth, and beauty. There are few things more sacred in life than points of origin. The point from where thoughts, ideas, and perspectives begin holds potent ability to echo and endure through generations and shape how people and cultures both speak and act. How a person interacts with and thinks about the world is the essence of living and the result of a starting point.
The thematic direction of the ORIGIN series this year will explore the construct of death and mortality, especially as it relates to how we live in response to our understanding. The aim of this year’s series will be to go beyond exploration of death as a subject to be understood; rather, the hope is to meditate on the implications of our finitude as artists, as patrons of the arts, as clergy, as believers – and as husbands, wives, children, neighbors, friends, and learn to “number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)
