The Only
Life Raft Here Is Love: A Call to Inner Revolution
Edwina Gateley looks at the violence of our world,
yet reflects on our perennial invitation to become peacemakers
from within. This inner revolution calls us to focus on the God
who dwells deeper than our fears, offering us endless opportunity
to become healers. Gateley founded the Volunteer Missionary Movement,
a lay overseas mission group, and Genesis House, a haven for
prostitutes in Chicago. Her Saturday workshop with Brenda Myers
from Genesis House is described here.
Her books include Growing into God and The Mystical
Heart.
Plenary address: Friday, 8 PM
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Why I Am
a Catholic
Garry Wills shares the reasons for hope in this
time of gospel renewal. Accused of being anti-Catholic after
writing Papal Sin about fundamental dishonesty at the
heart of the papacy, Wills wrote Why I Am a Catholic,
a personal statement of the timeless core of Catholic belief
which endures even as the church institution, including the papacy,
changes. Professor of history, American culture and public policy
at Northwestern University since 1980, the prolific Wills has
written 27 books on topics ranging from St. Augustine to Thomas
Jefferson to modern presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan. His
book, Lincoln at Gettysburg, won the Pulitzer Prize.
Saturday, 10:30 AM
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God's Gift
of Infinite Potential: Tending the Seeds of Compassion, Justice,
and Nonviolence in the Global Community
James M. Lawson, Jr., was invited to the South in 1957
by Martin Luther King, Jr., to teach Gandhian nonviolence. He
trained students like Diane Nash, Marion Barry, John Lewis and
James Bevel - joining them in the sit-ins and the founding of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Lawson's
words of faith shaped SNCC: "By appealing to conscience,
nonviolence nurtures the atmosphere in which reconciliation and
justice become possibillties." Lawson worked closely with
Dr. King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference starting
in 1960. His request brought King to Memphis to stand with striking
sanitation workers in 1968 - where King was killed. Lawson continued
the work of SCLC. As a pastor in Los Angeles, 1975 to 1999, and
today at age 65, Lawson has been tireless in the nonviolent struggle
for justice and peace.
Sunday, 9 AM.
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