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Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism. By Timothy P. Jackson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 288. 72.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780197538050. - Volume 37 Issue 2

IT IS MY PLEASURE AND PRIVILEGE to present to you the seventyfifth installment of the Summary of Proceedings, the official record of Atla's annual conference.Most authorities attest that the seventyfifth is the diamond anniversary, although confusingly the same title is also applied to the sixtieth.In any case, Atla Annual 2021 was a diamond-worthy jubilee, abounding in content demonstrative of a firm and lustrous commitment to the highest values of our profession.Gathered here in the Proceedings are the fruits of nearly three dozen papers, conversation groups, panel discussions, listen-andlearn sessions, and other offerings for your edification.Owing to the persistence of the pandemic, attendees were obliged to convene exclusively online for a second consecutive year.Indeed, COVID-19 made its mark throughout the program, occasioning numerous presentations on the ways in which librarians have adapted their services to the exigencies of this time of salubrious social separation.Topics such as remote instruction, open access, and controlled digital lending would have been of trending interest in any case, but the COVID crisis lent them an urgency none could likely have foreseen before March 2020.Also of surpassing urgency and prominence was the fourfold issue of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA).Reflecting the association's recent push to foster constructive action around this timely concern, many of our colleagues offered practical advice in such areas as implementing antiracism in cataloging, closing the Wikipedia gender gap, and developing more accessible spaces and websites.Naturally, there was room for presentations on perennial library topics as well, including cataloging and classification, collection development, flourishing through a construction project, and much more.

Abstract This article explores the challenges to engaging in Christian mission in Europe in these times. It takes as two defining characteristics of the current moment woundedness and the need for deep transformation. The woundedness of Europe is marked by the consequences of globalization which, on the one hand, give people the sense of losing control over their own world and, on the other, the influx of migrants and refugees escaping political and economic disorder in Asia and Africa. A spirituality of woundedness, based on the wounds of Jesus Christ, is offered as a basis for attending to wounds as a missio ad vulnera. The profound transformation to which Europe is called will require a spirituality based on conversion, kenosis, building community, and prophetic witness.

Over the centuries, the dynamic and fluid charism labeled “Franciscanism” has evolved, changed and morphed well beyond the vision of St. Francis and St. Clare. There is ample evidence to suggest that, after Vatican II and its mandate for religious communities to renew themselves (Perfectae caritatis, nn. 2 et passim), Franciscans of various stripes have done just that. On the other hand, the majority of First Order friars in the world are yet clerics, often minister in diocesan settings (e.g., parishes), and frequently self-identify more as “Fr”. than “Br”. Recent developments in postcolonial and decolonial theory provide valuable lenses for discerning to what extent First Order Franciscans have actually recovered the founding charisms. While distinguished by genealogy, chronology and priorities—some argue that decolonization is about reasserting control of land and resources, while decolonialization is concerned with the epistemic control that continues long after foreign administrations have receded—these two frames are yet intimately linked. Together, they provide welcomed tools for discerning to what extent monasticized, clericalized and “diocesanized” stands of ministry, administration and thinking persist among First Order friars in the 21st century. This engagement with unexpected dialogue partners from critical theories, rather than with the more comfortable and traditional arenas of history and spirituality, promises fresh and maybe even unsettling insights about our enacted spirituality.