Annual Holy Spirit Lecture
Delivered on April 4, 2024, at Duquesne University.
Lecture: Two Stories of Christmas: Learning from St. Luke and St. Matthew
Delivered on December 17, 2023, at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston.
Lecture: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture 2023, Lecture #1: What is the State of the Emerging Field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies?
Occasion: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, the first endowed lectureship in the emerging field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies, is a three-day academic residency in Baltimore that will be held every other year. The lectureship aims to advance the field of study by presenting new and creative work by a senior scholar and interreligious practitioner. The inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecture was held April 25-27, 2023, at Loyola University Maryland. The lecture is managed and sponsored by the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies.
Lecture: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture 2023, Lecture #2: What is the Future of the Field?
Occasion: The Silber-Obrecht Lecture, the first endowed lectureship in the emerging field of Interreligious and Interfaith Studies, is a three-day academic residency in Baltimore that will be held every other year. The lectureship aims to advance the field of study by presenting new and creative work by a senior scholar and interreligious practitioner. The inaugural Silber-Obrecht Lecture was held April 25-27, 2023, at Loyola University Maryland. The lecture is managed and sponsored by the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies.
Lecture: On the Edge: Reflections on Being a Christian Intellectual amid Many Religions
Occasion: The 2023 Boston College Candlemas Lecture was delivered on February 8, 2023. The lecture was sponsored by the Boston College Lowell Humanities Series, the Boston College Theology Department, and the GBH Forum Network.
Lecture: Hindu Poetry and Christian Particularity: Translation, Disruption, Revelation
Occasion: "Hindu Poetry and Christian Particularity" was the annual Cole Lecture for 2022 at the Vanderbilt Divinity School, given on October 10, 2022.
Lecture: Ramakrishna and Me
On Sunday, June 19, 2022, Swami Tyagananda, Director, invited me to give the Sunday sermon at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Boston, and I was honored to come and speak. My lecture/sermon spoke of the meaning of Sri Ramakrishna for me as a Catholic priest and Jesuit and scholar, over the past 40+ years.
Conference Presentation: Theological Comparison as Translation
Given on May 11, 2022 at a workshop at Oxford University, "Translation and Interpretation: The Case for Comparative Philosophy"
Lecture: “Ramakrishna and Me" (earlier version)
Given on January 16, 2022 at the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society in Hollywood, California.
Interview about Beyond Compare on Why Knowledge Matters
Interview with Professor Clooney on his book, Beyond Compare: Sri Vedanta Desika and St. Francis de Sales on Loving Surrender to God. It was conducted by Yanik Muller on his Why Knowledge Matters webcast on January 4, 2022.
Lecture: Mother Mary, Mother Kali: The Compassion of God
Lecture given at the Vedanta Society, Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday, October 17, 2021, on the theme, “Mother Mary, Mother Kali: the Compassion of God”
Interview about Divine Mother, Blessed Mother
Interview with Professor Clooney about his book Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (Oxford University Press, 2005), recorded by Florence Pasche Guignard on August 3, 2021 and published on September 13, 2021.
Interview about The Deep Study of Hindu Tradition from a Catholic Tradition
This episode of "Why Knowledge Matters" was posted on April 26, 2021.
