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Kieran Conroy
Union Theological Seminary, Theology, non-credit courswork in Religious Dialog and Indigenous religions 2006-7
Born into an ecumenical family in the beautiful Southern Hudson Highlands of New York, Kieran Conroy combines a passion for ministry and learning with work for justice and reconciliation with communities that have shaped him deeply.
Kieran studied Behavioral Science and Religion at Drew University, where he was a Trustee Scholar and graduated Summa Cum Laude (2004). Kieran was grateful to take part in a 2002 Drew International Seminar on Religion and the Slave Trade to Ghana, and wrote a major research paper which first spurred his interests in indigenous studies and missionary ethics. He went on to serve as a mentor and Early Ed assistant teacher for homeless families from 2004-5 with Covenant House's Faith Community in New York City and beginning his involvement with the Episcopal Church through St. Bart's, Manhattan.
Kieran is more recently (2010) a graduate of Harvard Divinity School with strong interests in indigenous rights, peace studies, social justice and education.
Kieran was grateful for the hospitality of the local Native community during his MDiv studies, working closely with Harvard's Native American Program and the regional Native community, including a Field Placement with the North American Indian Center of Boston and an extended term as Clerk by request of the Board. His thesis examined the role of churches and theological rhetoric in supporting, and more recently working for just-reconciliation over the culturally genocidal schools for indigenous peoples in the US and Canada. He was a co-founder of "Honoring Native Voices at HDS" a Native American studies and student advocacy organization at Harvard Divinity, and helped put on a 3 day "Native American Spirituality" Conference which included presentations from students, faculty and tribal elders and leaders. He was also asked to represent Harvard Divinity on the Harvard Native American Program Student Council to support campus-wide events, programs and student concerns, and assist the Powwow Committee for two years.
Kieran was a respondent for two years at the the "Engaging Particularities" Conference of the Society of Comparative Theology (Boston College), and completed a Religion and Conflict Certificate through the Boston Theological Institute, during which he also traveled to North and South Korea to study global mission and peacemaking.
Kieran worked for several years before and during grad school with programs serving the homeless and the developmentally disabled, most recently with the Outdoor Church ministry in Cambridge, MA where he did his second field placement. These experiences deepened his commitment to the voice and dignity of communities on the margins, and gave him skills and sensitivities that would be especially valuable to his later inter-cultural work.
During his time in Boston, Kieran was an active member and Leadership Team-member of the Crossing "Angli-merging" community meeting in Boston's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul from 2008-2010 (remains a wider-member of their Rule). Kieran was also a Co-Facilitator from 2007-2010 for the Boston Emergent Cohort, an ecumenical network bringing exciting speakers and regular "pub theology" dialogs to the Boston area. He has contributed to several research projects on the Emerging/Emergent/Fresh Expressions movements, including serving as a resource for Gordon Bible College's Spring 2009 Oxford-style debate on whether "The Emerging/Emergent Church is a Sign of Positive Christian Flourishing in Our Time." He also spent some time volunteering with the Gathering, an innovative ecumenical Christian community doing peacemaking and inter-cultural work in Salem, MA.
After Divinity School, Kieran served for 2 years with Resurrection House and various Episcopal parishes and organizations in Omaha and the Nebraska Sandhills. He did projectjs as a mentor/tutor for Native students through Creighton University, and establishing a Food Pantry at Canku Luta Inc, a culturally grounded substance abuse program. He also did 4 units of CPE with Alegent Health's Chaplaincy program,. Since August 2012 he has been helping found a new Young Adult Intentional Community on Rosebud, a joint Episcopal-Lutheran (ELCA) house for young people serving on the Rosebud reservation. He works with youth in various capacities, through the GLORY Episcopal youth program and as a leader for a new After school-based Cubscouts program for local youth.
Long-term, Kieran is exploring possibilities in educational and non-profit fields, particularly work benefiting Native American communities and persons with disabilities. Kieran also hopes to do further academic writing, but grounds his academic interests in service and ministry at the grassroots. He is Assistant Copy Editor for the Journal of the Postcolonial Networks.
Supervisors: Lillie Johnson Edwards (Mentor for Drew Seminar to Ghana and Indigenous/Missionary History), Francis Clooney, S.J. (Academic Adivsor, Harvard Divinity), Kimberly Patton (Thesis Adivsor, Harvard Divinity), and Joslyn Cassady (Academic Advisor, Drew University)
Address: Mission, SD
Kieran studied Behavioral Science and Religion at Drew University, where he was a Trustee Scholar and graduated Summa Cum Laude (2004). Kieran was grateful to take part in a 2002 Drew International Seminar on Religion and the Slave Trade to Ghana, and wrote a major research paper which first spurred his interests in indigenous studies and missionary ethics. He went on to serve as a mentor and Early Ed assistant teacher for homeless families from 2004-5 with Covenant House's Faith Community in New York City and beginning his involvement with the Episcopal Church through St. Bart's, Manhattan.
Kieran is more recently (2010) a graduate of Harvard Divinity School with strong interests in indigenous rights, peace studies, social justice and education.
Kieran was grateful for the hospitality of the local Native community during his MDiv studies, working closely with Harvard's Native American Program and the regional Native community, including a Field Placement with the North American Indian Center of Boston and an extended term as Clerk by request of the Board. His thesis examined the role of churches and theological rhetoric in supporting, and more recently working for just-reconciliation over the culturally genocidal schools for indigenous peoples in the US and Canada. He was a co-founder of "Honoring Native Voices at HDS" a Native American studies and student advocacy organization at Harvard Divinity, and helped put on a 3 day "Native American Spirituality" Conference which included presentations from students, faculty and tribal elders and leaders. He was also asked to represent Harvard Divinity on the Harvard Native American Program Student Council to support campus-wide events, programs and student concerns, and assist the Powwow Committee for two years.
Kieran was a respondent for two years at the the "Engaging Particularities" Conference of the Society of Comparative Theology (Boston College), and completed a Religion and Conflict Certificate through the Boston Theological Institute, during which he also traveled to North and South Korea to study global mission and peacemaking.
Kieran worked for several years before and during grad school with programs serving the homeless and the developmentally disabled, most recently with the Outdoor Church ministry in Cambridge, MA where he did his second field placement. These experiences deepened his commitment to the voice and dignity of communities on the margins, and gave him skills and sensitivities that would be especially valuable to his later inter-cultural work.
During his time in Boston, Kieran was an active member and Leadership Team-member of the Crossing "Angli-merging" community meeting in Boston's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul from 2008-2010 (remains a wider-member of their Rule). Kieran was also a Co-Facilitator from 2007-2010 for the Boston Emergent Cohort, an ecumenical network bringing exciting speakers and regular "pub theology" dialogs to the Boston area. He has contributed to several research projects on the Emerging/Emergent/Fresh Expressions movements, including serving as a resource for Gordon Bible College's Spring 2009 Oxford-style debate on whether "The Emerging/Emergent Church is a Sign of Positive Christian Flourishing in Our Time." He also spent some time volunteering with the Gathering, an innovative ecumenical Christian community doing peacemaking and inter-cultural work in Salem, MA.
After Divinity School, Kieran served for 2 years with Resurrection House and various Episcopal parishes and organizations in Omaha and the Nebraska Sandhills. He did projectjs as a mentor/tutor for Native students through Creighton University, and establishing a Food Pantry at Canku Luta Inc, a culturally grounded substance abuse program. He also did 4 units of CPE with Alegent Health's Chaplaincy program,. Since August 2012 he has been helping found a new Young Adult Intentional Community on Rosebud, a joint Episcopal-Lutheran (ELCA) house for young people serving on the Rosebud reservation. He works with youth in various capacities, through the GLORY Episcopal youth program and as a leader for a new After school-based Cubscouts program for local youth.
Long-term, Kieran is exploring possibilities in educational and non-profit fields, particularly work benefiting Native American communities and persons with disabilities. Kieran also hopes to do further academic writing, but grounds his academic interests in service and ministry at the grassroots. He is Assistant Copy Editor for the Journal of the Postcolonial Networks.
Supervisors: Lillie Johnson Edwards (Mentor for Drew Seminar to Ghana and Indigenous/Missionary History), Francis Clooney, S.J. (Academic Adivsor, Harvard Divinity), Kimberly Patton (Thesis Adivsor, Harvard Divinity), and Joslyn Cassady (Academic Advisor, Drew University)
Address: Mission, SD
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In this paper, I examine the unique way Native American religious traditions were originally "housed" in non-literary "texts" of land, oral tradition, architecture, etc. I argue the holistic nature of Native American religious "texts" was related to the particularly fierce "reprogramming" attempted by the US Government and missionaries against their communities in the Boarding School era.
I also preached at Mass that evening.
In this paper, I examine the unique way Native American religious traditions were originally "housed" in non-literary "texts" of land, oral tradition, architecture, etc. I argue the holistic nature of Native American religious "texts" was related to the particularly fierce "reprogramming" attempted by the US Government and missionaries against their communities in the Boarding School era.
I also preached at Mass that evening.