Borders and Belonging: A Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama

In celebration of the release of Pádraig Ó Tuama’s latest book, Borders and Belonging: The Book of Ruth: A Story for Our Times (co-written with Glenn Jordan), The On Being Project’s Religious Life and Social Healing team hosted a conversation between Pádraig Ó Tuama, The On Being Project’s Poet/Theologian and Host of Poetry Unbound, and Ben Katt, Associate Director of Religious Life & Social Healing, exploring how the ancient biblical story of Ruth speaks to our present moment.

Do borders provide belonging? Is that a safe kind of belonging? Whether it’s a wall at the Mexican-United States’ border, or the changing relationship of Britain to the European Union, global conversations about borders are armed with anxiety and threat. Borders and Belonging, a work of public theology, helps us engage these conversations by examining the story of Ruth. She is a widowed displaced border-crosser who enters a world that has ambivalence about her. And yet she is also the author of her own belonging as well as a person whose story invites change in the understanding of belonging, community, law and faithfulness.

Borders and Belonging: A Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama is part of our Civil Conversations and Social Healing work. Learn more about how we explore the question: Who will we be to each other?

Music by Gautam Srikishan

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