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“Come Alive with the Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman!” with Lerita Brown

Saturday, October 26, 2024

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

Howard Thurman (1899-1981) is one of the most important theologians, mystics, civil rights leaders, and spiritual teachers in U.S. history. He was a friend of Gandhi, who told him that perhaps the only way nonviolence would break open into the world would be through African-Americans. Thurman then went on to teach and mentor Martin Luther King, Jr., who called Thurman “the architect of the Civil Rights movement.”
 
Thurman served as dean of Rankin Chapel at Howard University from 1932 to 1944; led a six month delegation of African Americans to India, where they met Gandhi from 1935-1936; and then served as dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University, where he also taught theology from 1953-1965. He died in 1981 in San Francisco.
 
The author of 20 books on theology and religion, Thurman’s most famous work is “Jesus and the Disinherited,” which had a huge impact on Dr. King and all the Civil Rights leaders and remains a key ground-breaking work of theology. His autobiography, “With Head and Heart,” is also highly recommended.
 
“Don’t ask what the world needs,” Thurman famously wrote. “Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” 
 
Dr. Lerita Brown is one of our greatest scholars on Howard Thurman and will reflect on his life and her latest book, What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman, which we highly recommend. During her presentation, she will reflect on the life and work of Thurman as a young contemplative who became a prominent theologian and spiritual leader who advocated “sacred activism,” work that uses contemplative and mystical experience as a path to peace, purpose, and empowerment for positive social change.
 
Dr. Brown is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Agnes Scott College, a spiritual director, retreat leader, and speaker. She earned her BA from UC Santa Cruz and PhD from Harvard University. She appears in the documentaries, Back Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, and The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song. Her book, When the Heart Speaks, Listen—Discovering Inner Wisdom was published in 2019. Lerita is a most grateful heart (29 years) and kidney (19 years) transplant recipient! Please visit www.leritacolemanbrown.com Join us!

This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available!

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“Paul the Pharisee: A Vision Beyond the Violence of Civilization” with John Dominic Crossan

Saturday, November 9, 2024

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

John Dominic Crossan is one of the world’s greatest New Testament scripture scholars and will offer a presentation on his new book, Paul the Pharisee: A Vision Beyond the Violence of Civilization. Please join us for this special zoom session with this prestigious scholar. Bring your friends and spread the word!
 
Crossan is a former priest, an Irish-American New Testament scholar, emeritus professor at DePaul University, and past president of Society of Biblical Literature. His research has focused on the historical Jesus, the noncanonical gospels, and the application of postmodern hermeneutical approaches to the Bible. He describes Jesus’ ministry as founded on free healing and communal meals, negating the social hierarchies of Jewish culture and the Roman empire. Crossan’s “reconstructed Jesus incarnates nonviolent resistance to the Romanization of his Jewish homeland and the Herodian commercialization of his Galilean lake as present program and future hope of a transformed world and transfigured earth. Crossan’s method is to situate biblical texts within the reconstructed matrix of their own their own genre and purpose, their own time and place, and to hear them accurately for then before accepting or rejecting them for now.”
 
His many books include: God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome; How to read the Bible and Still Be a Christian; Resurrecting Easter; In Search of Paul;
Excavating Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; Who Killed Jesus?; The Historical Jesus; The Essential Jesus; Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; and his memoir, A Long Way from Tipperary.
 
Here is John Dominic Crossan’s description of his new book and his talk:
“Does Paul, Apostle of the Nations and Terror of the New Testament, have a vision from then to now, past to present, church sanctuary to public square, and, above all else, from ancient divine sanctions to modern evolutionary consequences? This book answers affirmatively with a cosmic Paul by imagining his DNA as—of course—a double helix but one whose twin and intertwined spirals are his 1st-century historical challenge (pace Luke-Acts) and his 21st-century evolutionary relevance.
 
First, and fundamentally, the vaunted law and order of the Pax Romana, which was but civilization then and there in toga, had publicly, officially, and legally executed Jesus as Messiah/ Christ (Tacitus, Annals 15.44). Then, for Paul but minimally, Jesus’ Messianic/Christic execution revealed that the function of law was/is the obstruction of justice. (Think, for instance, of standing today before the Supreme Court of the United States, reading its crowning mantra EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW, and wondering if those twin two-word components are oxymoron or redundancy.)
 
Next, for Paul but maximally, Roman civilization’s execution of the Messianic/Christic Jesus revealed the savage normalcy not just of Roman imperialism but of human civilization. But, of course, “none of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory” (1 Corinthians 2:8).  That execution, however, also revealed the eternal mystery of divine wisdom whereby Jesus had to be vindicated not within individual ascension (apotheōsis), then a cross-cultural potential for both Jews and Gentiles, but within universal resurrection (anastasis), then a sectarian potential for Jewish Pharisees only. But that meant, of course, that Phariseeism’s universal-resurrection (anastasis nekrōn) and Messianism’s Jesus-resurrection stood or fell together (1 Corinthians 15:12,13,16) so that, “in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have slept” (15:10). To repeat for emphasis: “resurrection,” unlike “ascension,” was never individual but always universal.
 
Finally, relevance from antiquity to modernity may be assessed by any reader who sees it but must be assessed for any author who claims it. A Paul on Jesus, like a Plato on Socrates, must, therefore,  be assessed for contemporary relevance not because we need to create it but because they dared to assert it. If you speak to the ages, the ages have a right—and duty—to respond.
 
In Paul’s Pharisaic Messianic/Christic vision, the triadic end-time product of universal resurrection, general judgment, and eternal sanctions—mitigated totally by forgiveness or partially by mercy— had become an in-time process with the vindication of Jesus. As an in-time triadic process, but for contemporary relevance, this book proposes to read Paul not in terms of external and future divine punishments in heaven or hell but in terms of internal human and present consequences in ecology and evolution. Universal resurrection becomes universal responsibility; general judgment becomes general accountability; eternal sanctions become ultimate consequences; forgiveness becomes our ability to change; mercy becomes the time to change before it is too late. 
 
Paul the Pharisee celebrates not just the New Paul as Jew but the New-New Paul as Pharisee. Granted Christian to Jewish to Roman matrices of interpretation, this book explores the historical Paul through the fourth matrix of Evolution. (Think of four Russian nesting Matryoska dolls.) We are not on the Titanic, we are the iceberg, so what does Pauline “resurrection” have to do—now— with human evolution?”

This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available!

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“Thomas Merton’s Contemplative Wisdom for a Time of Crisis” with Judith Valente

Saturday, December 14th, 2024

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

Thomas Merton was one of the most influential spiritual voices of the 20th century. The famous Trappist monk wrote over a hundred books on every aspect of the spiritual life. Pope Francis named him as one of the greatest Americans, along with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Dorothy Day, during his 2015 address to the U.S. Congress. Merton’s writings on race, poverty, political discourse, war, and nonviolence are as relevant today as when he wrote them, perhaps even more so. Indeed, it is as though he is speaking directly to us about the crises we face today. 
 
Thomas Merton’s words have become increasingly urgent as our country confronts bitter political divisions and the world descends further into tragic and senseless conflicts. Through his essays, journals, meditations and poetry, Merton shows us how a contemplative response can change the world, how we call all pursue the contemplative wisdom of peace, and how we can become “contemplatives in action.”
 
Judith Valente is the president of the International Thomas Merton Society, which you can visit at www.merton.org/itms. She is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post who spent many years covering faith and values for “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly” on national PBS-TV. She is the author of several books, including “How To Live,” an exploration of The Rule of St. Benedict; The Art of Pausing: Meditations for the Overworked and Overwhelmed; and Atchison Blue, a memoir of her time spent with the Benedictine sisters of Atchison, KS. She has also written two collections of poetry. Her latest book, The Italian Soul: How to Savor the Full Joys of Life, about her stays in Italy, will be out in May 2025.
 
Judith frequently offers retreats on the theme of living a more contemplative life in the secular world. She also leads the annual “Benedictine Footprints” contemplative, cultural and culinary retreat/pilgrimage to lesser-known spiritual sites in Italy.

This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available!

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“Human Rights and Peacemaking” with Kerry Kennedy

Saturday, January 11, 2025

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

According to the United Nations, human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to work and education. As we face unprecedented global poverty, permanent warfare, and the threat of nuclear weapons and catastrophic climate change, many are expanding this initial vision to include the right to live in peace, without fear of war or nuclear weapons, as well as the rights of all creatures and Mother Earth, too.
 
It is a great blessing to welcome my friend Kerry Kennedy, the director of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center, to speak with us about her life’s work promoting human rights and how that work is connected to Gospel peacemaking. Long ago in 1982, I worked at the RFK center before I entered the Jesuits, and I have followed its growth over the decades.  
 
A human rights activist and lawyer, Kerry authored the New York Times best seller Being Catholic Now, as well as Speak Truth to Power and Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope. She has devoted more than 40 years to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law around the world. She works on a range of issues, including child labor, women’s rights, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, criminal justice reform, immigration, impunity, and environmental justice. She has led hundreds of human rights delegations in support of these causes. She appears regularly as a commentator on national and worldwide television networks, and is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines. Kennedy served as Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council for over a decade.
 
“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so long ago,” Robert F. Kennedy famously said, ‘To tame the savageness of humanity and make gentle the life of this world.’” Kerry has led the RFK center to advocate for human rights and pursue strategic litigation to hold governments accountable at home and around the world. In an effort to foster a social approach to business, celebrate agents of change, and ensure change that lasts, the RFK Center has educated millions of students about human rights, and helped train a new generation of leaders around the world realize Robert F. Kennedy’s dream of a more just and peaceful world. Please visit www.rfkhumanrights.org
 
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available! Join us!

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“War Isn’t Over When It’s Over” with Kathy Kelly

Saturday, January 25th, 2025

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

Salman Rushdie has written that those who are forcibly displaced by war are “the shining shards that reflect the truth.” We need to hear their stories to understand the effect of war and the urgent need for peace. The stories of those whose lives are forever altered by U.S. “forever wars” propel us toward reparations and the long term work of disarmament.
 
Long time peace activist, author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly will share stories from decades of experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, and the U.S. prison system. Through these stories, she will over insights into next steps on the way of and how we can be better “practitioners of nonviolence.”
She will invite us to insist that the U.S. government make reparations to all victims of its wars who meant us no harm; to welcome people who seek safe haven after fleeing war zones or leaving prisons; and to hold accountable the corporations which profit from permanent warfare, weapons manufacturing and mass incarceration.
 
Kathy Kelly is board president of “World Beyond War.” From 2022 to the present, she has co-coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has co-coordinated an international network to assist young Afghans forced to flee their country. She made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with young Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working-class neighborhood in Kabul. 
 
With Voices in the Wilderness companions, from 1996 – 2003, she traveled twenty-seven times to Iraq, defying the economic sanctions and remaining in Iraq throughout the 2003 “Shock and Awe” bombing and the initial weeks of the invasion. She joined subsequent delegations to the West Bank’s Jenin Camp in 2002 during and after Israeli attacks, to Lebanon during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah and to Gaza, in 2009, during Operation Cast Lead and following the 2013 Operation Pillar of Defense. Kathy has been an educator for most of her life, but she believes children of war and those who are victims of violence are our most important teachers.
 
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available! Join us!

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“The Little Way of Merciful Love: Real-World Mentoring from St. Therese of Lisieux” with Marisa Guerin

Saturday, February 8, 2025

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

St. Thérèse of Lisieux is famous for her Little Way of nonviolent love. But really, how hard was that for someone who lived in a French convent in the 19th century? It’s not like she was trying to deal with a world steeped in the violence of war, racism, poverty, nuclear weapons, climate change, and polarized politics. 

“No doubt, we don’t have any enemies in Carmel,” she wrote in her autobiography, “but there are feelings.” Like us, she encountered difficult and damaged people who aroused feelings of resentment, anger, and indignation. Her intuition told her these unloving feelings become wellsprings of violence if we don’t manage them.  

For Thérèse, the field of engagement with “enemies” was in her own heart. Through reflection, prayer, patience, and the grace of God, Thérèse gradually came to see others with the compassionate eyes of the nonviolent Jesus. At the same time, she learned how to avoid violence to herself by understanding her own limits and needs.

In this presentation, we will take lessons from St. Thérèse about cultivating a peaceful and merciful heart one day at a time, trusting in the God who never abandons our suffering world, and doing what we can to spread peace, compassion, kindness, understanding and love. 

 Marisa Guerin is the co-author with the late Brother Joseph Schmidt, FSC of “Life Lessons from St. Thérèse of Lisieux,” published in 2023 by Word Among Us.

Marisa Guerin, PhD, is a retired consultant and educator with expertise in organizational behavior and the psychodynamics of leadership. In her career, she served as the national youth ministry leader for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, as the Human Resources executive for an international manufacturing company, and as an independent organizational consultant working primarily with the leaders of religious institutes. Marisa is married and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please visit: www.guerinconsulting.com  

This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available! Join us!

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“The Gospel According to John,” A Lenten Series with Fr. John Dear

 

Monday, March 10th. Session #1—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern

Monday, March 17th. Session #2—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern

Monday, March 24th. Session #3—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern

Monday, March 31st. Session #4—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern

Monday, April 7th. Session #5—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern

 
This Lent, Fr. John Dear will lead us through the Gospel according to John from the perspective of universal love and active nonviolence. As he did in his book about the synoptic Gospels, The Gospel of Peace, John will lead us through the text from a Gandhian/Kingian hermeneutic (or perspective) of nonviolence for new insights into the stories and teachings of the nonviolent Jesus.
 
The Lenten series will be broken into five sessions. First, John Dear will talk about John’s Gospel in general, the introductory chapter, why it begins with the civil disobedience in the Temple, and the witness of John the Baptist. Second, he will look at the great encounters—Nicodemus who comes at night and the unnamed woman at the well. Third, we will look at the teachings on life, death and the bread of life; how Jesus saves the woman from being stoned; and the climatic story of John 9, the healing of the man born blind—who represents the entire human race. Fourth, we will look at the raising of Lazarus as the culmination of the life of Jesus, and the washing of the feet as preparation for martyrdom. Fifth, we will look at the last supper discourse, the arrest, trial and execution of Jesus, and John’s resurrection accounts with its final call to discipleship.
 
This series will be based on John Dear’s book, Lazarus Come Forth!: How Jesus Confronts the Culture of Death and Invites Us into the New Life of Peace (Orbis, 2011) which you might want to get. It is recommended that you begin reading the Gospel of John in advance, bring your questions, keep a journal, and consider using this study for your Lenten practice. To read more about John Dear’s work, see www.johndear.org. Please make note of the schedule:
 
Monday, March 10th. Session #1—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern
Monday, March 17th. Session #2—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern
Monday, March 24th. Session #3—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern
Monday, March 31st. Session #4—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern
Monday, April 7th. Session #5—4:00 Pacific/7 pm Eastern
 
Each session will last an hour and a half. Total Cost for the five sessions: $125. Scholarships are available! Join us!
 
You will be sent a zoom link for the event on Ash Wednesday, March 5th. Please be on the lookout for the link, and save it: it will be the same zoom link used for each of the five sessions!
 
You will receive a recording of each session a few days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again.
 

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“Seeding Hope in Precarious Times with Thomas Merton” with Gordon Oyer

Saturday, April 26, 2025

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

Pope Francis has called this year 2025 to be a “Holy Year of Hope.” In that spirit, we will reflect on hope with Thomas Merton as our guide.
 
A few years ago, my friend Gordon Oyer published an important book about Thomas Merton’s 1964 retreat on “The Spiritual Roots of Protest,” that had a tremendous impact on those who participated (including the Berrigans). His award-winning 2014 book, Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest (2014) and was followed in 2021 by another Merton study, Signs of Hope: Thomas Merton’s Letters on Peace, Race, and Ecology.
 
In this presentation, Gordon Oyer will speak for this recent book on Merton’s insight and wisdom into “seeding hope” during these tumultuous, precarious times of permanent war, the nuclear threat, racism, fascism, and climate change. Besides examining these crises in the 1960s, Merton always dug deeper to understand and locate the underlying forces that feed the systemic violence erupting on its surface. In doing so he identified trends in that era that have only evolved and expanded in our own. 
 
After touching on Merton’s correspondence with people who worked for peace and racial reconciliation, he will delve into Merton’s insights on trends in our world such as how we abuse language and communication, our uncritical embrace of unrestrained technology for solutions, and (perhaps above all) our views of how humans fit in Earth’s chain of life. We will explore how these trends help drive the systemic violence around us by fragmenting our daily experience to alienate us from other humans and from our planet’s rhythms. 
 
In the midst of such precarious times, then and now, Merton does not offer naïve optimism for sunny outcomes. Rather, he encourages us to respond motivated by a hope that recognizes the harsh realities of these times, yet grounds us and leans into possibilities for a more peaceful world by connecting with one another and with the God of peace, love, and compassion.
 
Gordon Oyer obtained an MA in history from the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign and is now retired from his career as an administrator with the University of Illinois System. Prior to his Merton scholarship, Gordon focused on various historical aspects of the Mennonite tradition, including six years serving as editor of Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly. Gordon currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available! Join us!
 
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“The Nonviolent Jesus and the Violent Authoritarians”
with Brian McLaren

Saturday, May 17, 2025

11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern

With the rapid rise of Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, oligarchy, and fascism, here at home under the Trump Administration, the Republican party, and FOX news, as well as around the world, it is important that we study how the nonviolent Jesus dealt with the “violent authoritarians” of his own time for clues about how we can respond creatively, actively and nonviolently.
 
In this presentation, we welcome one of the greatest scripture scholars and theologians in the world, author, teacher and pastor, Brian McLaren. In recent years, he has been researching authoritarianism, and in this session, he will explore Jesus in his context and make connections to our own. He will also help participants see “the connections between personal, interpersonal, social, systemic, and ecological violence, and explore how Jesus’s message and teaching invite us into a new relationship with … everything!”
 
Brian McLaren spent 24 years as a pastor in a local congregation in the Washington DC area. His life and ministry were changed when he, as a young Evangelical pastor, realized that he was called to be a follower of Jesus … not simply a follower of the Bible or of a theological system or religious hierarchy. For the last twenty-five years as an author, public speaker, teacher, and activist, he has been “taking Jesus public,” exploring how the life and message of Jesus relate to issues of personal and public life today.
 
Brian is Dean of Faculty for the Center for Action and Contemplation and a podcaster with Learning How to See. He is a co-host of Southern Lights.
His latest books are  Faith After Doubt (January 2021), Do I Stay Christian? (May 2022), and Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart (2024). He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer for denominational and ecumenical leadership gatherings – across the US and Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including postmodern thought and culture, Biblical studies, church leadership and spiritual formation, pastoral survival and burnout, inter-religious dialogue, and global crises.
 
His 2006 book, “The Secret Message of Jesus” (Thomas Nelson), explores the theme of the kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus. “Everything Must Change (Thomas Nelson, 2007) traces critical ways in which Jesus’ message of the kingdom of God confronts contemporary global crises. In “Finding Our Way Again” (Thomas Nelson, 2008), Brian draws resources from ancient traditions and practices to enrich spiritual formation today. In “A New Kind of Christianity” (HarperOne, 2010), Brian articulated ten questions that are central to the emergence of a postmodern, post-colonial Christian faith. His 2011 HarperOne release, “Naked Spirituality,” offers “simple, doable, and durable” practices to help people deepen their life with God. Brian’s “Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?” (2012) explores the intersection of religious identity, inter-religious hostility, and human solidarity.
 
A frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs, he has appeared on All Things Considered, Larry King Live, Nightline, On Being, and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. His work has also been covered in Time, New York Times, Christianity Today, Christian Century, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN, and many other print and online media. He has taught or lectured at many seminaries and at denominational and interfaith gatherings. Brian is married to Grace, and they have four adult children and five grandchildren. Please visit: www.brianmclaren.net
 
This session will last an hour and a half; Cost: $30. Scholarships are available! Join us!

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You will receive a recording of the event two days after it, in case you were not able to attend the live program, or want to watch it again. 

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