The final program for the 2025 Annual Meeting of CTS is now available.

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Newman Theological College (NTC) invites applications for the position of Professor (Open Rank) of Systematic Theology.

Open Competition: 23 April 2025 – 23 May 2025 (or until filled)
Start Date: Summer 2025 (flexible)

NTC is a Roman Catholic School of Theology committed to theological education and
missionary discipleship. The College prepares laity, religious, and ordained ministers for
Christian service and leadership in Western Canada and beyond. Through the
accreditation of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), NTC offers a Masters of
Divinity (MDiv), Masters of Religious Education (MRE) and Masters of Theological
Studies (MTS). NTC’s Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Catholic Studies is accredited through
Alberta’s Minister of Advanced Education.

Qualifications and experience: At the time of appointment, the successful candidate
must possess a PhD and/or STD (Doctorate in Sacred Theology) in the field of Systematic
Theology and have demonstrated ability to teach in the area of Systematic Theology. The
candidate must also show an ability to work collaboratively and must demonstrate
competence and/or willingness to deliver online learning using Moodle (LMS) and
Zoom.

Appointment: This position is a full-time and in-person position with an indefinite
contract. The teaching load is six (6) courses per academic year. The teaching load is
distributed depending on teaching needs. Faculty assessment is based on teaching (70%),
scholarly activity (15%) and service (15%). The preferred start date is between 1 July
2025 and 1 August 2025. Some relocation funds may be available.

Requirements: All professors teaching in the area of theology at NTC are expected to
obtain and maintain a Mandatum from the appropriate local ordinary for the duration of
the contract and to abide by the principles of Catholic Universities as laid out by John
Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae. Because of NTC’s missional
commitments, the candidate must be–and remain–in good standing with the Roman
Catholic Church.

Compensation: Salary is commensurate with experience and education, 4 weeks of paid
vacation per year, access to benefit plan and eligibility to participate in NTC’s group
retirement plan.

Application Requirements: Applicants are asked to submit the following to the Search
Committee no later than 23 May 2024: (1) curriculum vitae (CV), (2) letter of interest, (3)
an academic letter of reference.

The CV must include teaching experience, area(s) of specialization and competence, and
educational background. The letter of interest should reflect the candidate’s commitment
to NTC’s mission and suitability to research and teach in Systematic Theology.

Submission of Applications: Please email your application package no later than 23
May 2025 to the attention of the Search Committee at hr@newman.edu. Review of
application materials begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. All
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. Note, however, that priority will be given to
Canadians and permanent residents. Only candidates selected for an interview will be
contacted. The initial round of interviews will take place in late May and early June
2025.

For questions, please get in touch with Dr. Pablo Irizar (pablo.irizar@newman.edu), Chair of
the Search Committee.

All hiring decisions are subject to final approval by the Board of Governors of Newman
Theological College.

Saint Paul University is hiring:

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL STUDIES

Tenure-track Position

Saint Paul University is a Catholic, bilingual (French and English), teaching and research university dedicated to the promotion of social transformation and the common good. Founded by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, federated with the University of Ottawa, endowed with civil and ecclesial charters, the University serves an international and local ecumenical student community.

Deadline for receiving the applications is May 5, 2025.

The appointment begins July 1, 2025. The search will continue until the position is filled.

For more information: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=e0deecb0-63b7-464a-a5d7-36704316a883&ccId=9200974131188_2&lang=en_CA&selectedMenuKey=CurrentOpenings&jobId=539856

Toronto School of Theology Graduate Students Association presents the 2025 Spring Conference: Theology, Conflict, Violence and Peacebuilding. The conference will be held on May 3, 2025 at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Jean-Pierre Fortin, Associate Professor of Practical Theology at the University of St. Michael’s College.

Call for Papers: Proposals are welcome from across religious and theological disciplines. Proposals are due by March 1, 2025 at tgsaconference2025@gmail.com. It is open to graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, recent PhD graduates (last 3 years). For more information and a full list of sample topics, please visit https://tgsa.sa.utoronto.ca/conference/

HORIZONS: ENCOUNTERING DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES

April 28–29, 2025 at Saint Paul University

Christian theology today stands at the intersection of multiple disciplines, societies, cultures, and spiritualities. This reality calls for emerging scholars to embrace an openness and collaborative spirit, engaging with diverse perspectives and exploring new horizons. In a globalized world, the diversity of viewpoints and approaches becomes essential for understanding and addressing contemporary challenges, particularly those experienced in the existential margins and peripheries of society. While opportunities to respectfully encounter the perspectives of others can be scarce in our polemically-oriented world, this colloquium aims to provide emerging scholars with a stimulating and collegial environment within which to foster constructive dialogue.

In the ongoing conversation between faith, reason and culture that Saint Paul University seeks to promote, heterogeneity and diversity are strengths that can open up our horizons, not simply as scholars, but also as human persons. The doctoral students of Saint Paul University’s Faculty of Theology therefore welcome presentations oriented around these themes. They particularly encourage submissions that embrace interdisciplinarity or otherwise innovative approaches to scholarship and consider subjects such as, but not limited to:

• Interreligious and intercultural dialogue
• Ecumenical dialogue and inter-church relations
• Religion in the public sphere – sociology of religion
• Indigenous theology and indigeneity
• Christian spirituality and spiritual traditions
• Liturgy, worship, and ritual practices
• Science and emerging technologies
• Ecology and environmental protection
• Vulnerable persons and abuse crises
• Ethics, bioethics, and healthcare
• Social sciences and the humanities
• Social justice and transformation
• Christian art and literature

Dialogues with:

• Patristics
• Historical theology
• Systematics
• Biblical hermeneutics

We invite emerging scholars to submit their proposals for presentations at our second annual colloquium via email to colloquium-colloque@ustpaul.ca.

Please include an abstract of no more than 300 words. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes and followed by ten minutes of questions and/or discussion.

Submissions will be received until January 17, 2025. Scholars will be informed by February 14 whether their proposals have been accepted.

For more information, contact colloquium-colloque@ustpaul.ca.

The three partner colleges of the Saskatoon Theological Union (STU) are seeking a Doctor of Ministry Program Director. The Director will lead the implementation of the STU’s cooperative Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program in collaboration with the DMin Committee of the Common Faculty of the STU. The successful applicant can work on-site or remotely.

For further details on specific responsibilities, desired qualifications, hours of work, and compensation, please refer to the position profile.

All inquiries and applications should be sent to Dr. Richard Manley-Tannis, STU Manager: principal.sac@saskatoontheologicalunion.ca.

The deadline for applications is August 8, 2024.

At this time, the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 37,000 persons, including more than 15,000 children.  In the occupied West Bank, more than 553 people have been killed, including over 137 children. More than 90,000 Palestinians have been injured since October 7, 2023, in Gaza and the West Bank. On that day, 1,139 Israelis were killed and a further 120 are still held hostage inside Gaza, at least 34 of whom are presumed dead.  We affirm all life to be precious and created in the image of God.

We receive and affirm the call of Palestinian Christians to repent of our indifference to their suffering as well as of all theological articulations that promote or justify it.

We mourn the loss of over 80 percent of Palestinian institutions of education in Gaza and we condemn this scholasticide. We express our solidarity and support for all faculty, staff, and students who persist in teaching students in make-shift universities despite the horrific conditions in which they are forced to work.

We also raise our voices to offer our support, encouragement, and prayer for student and faculty protestors in Canada and throughout the world who are taking direct action through encampments, protests, and other forms of non-violent resistance to this war and Western complicity within it.  We condemn any infringement upon their safety, their detainments, arrests, and other forms of reprisals that they may face. We commit ourselves to the principles of academic freedom without censure and we condemn any prohibitions to free and reasoned speech upon our campuses.

We join our voices to call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to put an end to violence in Gaza and throughout Palestine.  We call for a return of all hostages on both sides. We call for the cessation of investments in arms in universities which profit from this war.  We call upon the universities to desist from using violence against their students. In all these ways, we resist and stand with those who are seeking justice and an end to all violence.

– Passed by the Canadian Theological Society at the Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2024 in Montreal.

LINK TO DETAILED PROGRAM FOR THE CTS 2024 ANNUAL CONFERENCE:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNvT4SO1leJVrS2mCxQqsaYO_mRTPXF-/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107981292537749654187&rtpof=true&sd=true

The detailed program is a living document that aims to provide complete, accurate, and up-to-date information regarding all aspects of the conference. In an evolving situation, the detailed program will serve as an ongoing point of reference.

CHANGE TO CONFERENCE LOCATION:

All three days of the Canadian Theological Society conference will now take place at the Newman Centre (3484 Rue Peel, Montreal). We are grateful to Liam Farrer, Director of the Newman Centre and member of CTS, for his support in facilitating these last-minute changes.

UPDATE FOR CTS MEMBERS: 

Dear members of CTS,

The annual conference of the Canadian Theological Society (CTS) is set to take place in Montreal from June 17 to 19. As highlighted in the update shared last week, there are two ongoing issues at McGill that have complicated our planning this year: 1) the ongoing strike action on the part of the Association of McGill Professors of Law (AMPL-AMPD: https://ampl-ampd.ca/); and 2) a pro-Palestinian student protest encampment on campus and the associated police response that included tear-gas and arrests on June 6.

In recent weeks, the CTS had been receiving updates from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress regarding both issues. They continue to advise us that the campus at McGill University is open and accessible, and that Congress will be proceeding as planned.

The CTS executive recognizes that members are concerned about participating in the conference given these two ongoing issues. Several members have noted that they would be unwilling to cross picket lines and others have expressed concern about how student protesters may continue to be treated by security and law enforcement.

In response to these challenges and members’ concerns, the executive met online on Thursday, May 30 to discuss how best to move forward. As an act of solidarity with faculty labour movements, we initially planned to move the first day of the conference off the McGill campus to the Newman Centre. We selected the first day because it includes two flagship lectures, the Diversity, Equity, and Justice Lecture and the Newman Lecture. We also canceled our catering order with McGill for the duration of the meeting. The networking lunch will feature at least one table group focused on conversation about labour movements in higher education.

Following the police action against student protestors on June 6, the executive consulted by email and decided to move the entire conference to the Newman Centre to ensure members can participate in the conference with a sense of personal safety and integrity. A statement regarding violence in Gaza and direct action on university campuses will be presented for discussion at the CTS AGM.

As a small society that survives on a year-to-year budget, and with more than half of the sixty participants in attendance at the meeting being graduate students or people who are precariously employed, this is the extent to which we are financially capable of changing plans at this late date.

Because the entire conference will now take place at the Newman Centre, we have ended our relationship with McGill. However, we are maintaining a relationship with Congress, including providing access to the conference online through the Virtual Platform. Pulling out of Congress entirely would have serious financial and logistical implications for a small society like the CTS and our members:

• The CTS has a contract with Congress to host our conference. Cancellation of that contract would result in a significant financial loss including the loss of all delegate fees that have been paid by members to the Federation.
• Many of our members have already made non-refundable travel and accommodation commitments.
• The Federation provides resources that include accessibility provisions, association assistant staff, and technical support.

Since our meeting, we have been in contact with AMPL-AMPD leadership and they have expressed gratitude for our solidarity. As an organization in solidarity with the union, the AMPL-AMPD has assured the CTS executive that all members of CTS will receive “picket passes” and those holding a “picket pass” will not be considered by the union to be crossing the picket line. Although all CTS events will take place at the Newman Centre or elsewhere off campus, some members may still have on-campus accommodations or other reasons to be at McGill. Details about how to receive picket passes will be provided when available from the union.

Please reference the detailed online program which will be updated as plans continue to evolve:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNvT4SO1leJVrS2mCxQqsaYO_mRTPXF-/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107981292537749654187&rtpof=true&sd=true

As always, please do not hesitate to reach out to CTS president Sarah Kathleen Johnson (Sarah.Kathleen.Johnson@ustpaul.ca) or program chair Meghan Bowen (meghan.bowen@mail.utoronto.ca) if you have any additional questions or concerns relating to your participation in the conference.

We continue to believe that the agenda for our meeting is aligned with the values of dignity, equity, and justice present in these movements. We thank our members for their patience and flexibility in these final days before our meeting in Montreal.

Sincerely,

Sarah Kathleen Johnson

President, Canadian Theological Society