Past Speakers
2007-2008 Speakers
2008
February 11, 2008
Fr. Donald Senior, C.P.
"Finding the Bones of Jesus: What Difference would it Make?"
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March 10, 2008
Thomas Reese, S.J.
"Faithful Citizenship"
April 14, 2008
Marcia Hermansen, Ph.D.
"Cultural Worlds/Cultural Wars: Islam, Christianity, and Culture in the 21st Century"
2007
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Simone Campbell, SSS "Fear Based Politics - and an Antidote" |
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John Dear, S.J. "Peace, Shalom, Salaam: Interfaith Nonviolence and the Children of Abraham" Interfaith nonviolence is our future, John Dear will tell us. All the religions are rooted in nonviolence, even Christianity, and each one of us is called to work for a new world without war, poverty or nuclear weapons, a new world of nonviolence. John Dear, S.J. will speak about the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other modern peacemakers and their legacy of nonviolence as our only hope, as the only way to look at the world, as the best political solution for each of us personally, nationally and globally. John Dear, S.J. is a Jesuit priest, pastor, peace activist, organizer, lecturer, retreat leader, and the author/editor of 25 books on peace and justice. His most recent book is "Transfiguration." He is also a weekly columnist for the National Catholic Reporter. |
September 17, 2007
October 15, 2007November 12, 2007
Timothy Radcliffe, O. P.
"Blessed are the Peacemakers: the Challenge of Peace in the Church"
In the United states the Church suffers wounds of division and incomprehension, which mar the witness of the Church to Christ's peace. In this lecture Timothy Radcliffe OP will look at how we can understand these and seek to overcome them.
Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. is a member of the community at Blackfriars, Oxford, and was Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992 to 2001. He is the author of 4 books, the latest being “What Is the Point of Being A Christian?”
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