media | audio & video:
VIDEO:
Digital Parish
“How to Do Pastoral Care in the Digital Space”
an Interview for Digital Parish
February 2024
PODCAST:
Callings
“Callings We Don’t Choose”
a podcast for Callings by the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education
March 2023
ARTICLE:
The Christian Century
The Christian Century
VIDEO:
Hope Matters
Dr. Deanna A. Thompson on ‘Hope Matters’ – A Mt. Olive Lutheran discussion series.
“Hope Matters” is a new video interview program for YouTube, produced by Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Santa Monica, California, and hosted by Mt. Olive’s Senior Pastor, the Rev. Eric C. Shafer.
February 23, 2022
VIDEO:
Communion and COVID: Eucharistic Practices and Perspectives
Panel presentation for the Chicago Area Synod of the ELCA and Lutheran School of Theology
July 2020
ARTICLE:
Pandemic, the Virtual Body of Christ, and the Next Generation of Church Leaders
Lutheran Alliance for Faith, Science, and Technology
July 15, 2020
VIDEO:
Being the Church in This Time of Pandemic
Video of Conversation along with
Diana Butler Bass
Joshua Case
Kevin Holdsworth
May 2020
VIDEO:
The Luxcast
Interview with Deanna on “Cancer Story and the Christian Story” during her visit to Western Theological Seminary
March 2019
VIDEO:
Luther Seminary Lecture
2017 REFORMATION FESTIVAL
“The Viral Reformer and the Virtual Body of Christ”
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
October 27, 2017
WATCH VIDEO:
St. Olaf Guest Lecture
ALWAYS REFORMING SERIES
“Commemorating Luther in an Age of Trump: A Feminist Proposal”
St. Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
October 19, 2017
VIDEO:
University of Victoria
“Martin Luther and the Ambiguity of Reform”
University of Victoria, British Columbia
28 September 2017
PODCAST:
National Catholic Reporter
In this episode, NCR contributor Julie Bourbon explains kriya yoga and the Assisi Institute’s inaugural kriya yoga conference. Then, a conversation with theologian Deanna Thompson on her book The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World. Deanna talks about how a journey through illness led her to embrace her digital connections as a vital example of the body of Christ. (Starts at 12 minute mark.)
VIDEO:
2017 Faculty of the Year Acceptance
See Deanna virtually accepting the 2017 Faculty of the Year award
from Hamline Alumni.
Hamline University
Saint Paul, Minnesota
VIDEO:
“Living Beyond Cancer” on TPT
Deanna and her family and were featured on local public television affiliate’s (TPT) companion piece to “The Emperor of All Maladies,” the new Ken Burns documentary on the history of cancer based on the book of the same name. The TPT feature is called “Living Beyond Cancer,” looking at five local people who live with – and sometimes beyond – cancer. It first aired Monday, March 30, evening after the Ken Burns documentary.
You can see the entire episode embedded to the right.
(Deanna’s story begins at minute 33.40.)
WATCH VIDEO:
The Story of “Hoping for More”
The video was created for Hope Lutheran Church in West Des Moines by videographer Ryan Buck to tell the story of “Hoping for More.”
It was initially created for a summer 2013 sermon series called “Since You Asked” for a sermon on “What do you do when a Friend Has Cancer?” The video is in four segments and closely follows the book.
[ click the ‘expand’ icon to watch full screen ]
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