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A Matter of Spirit - IPJC's Quarterly Justice Journal
Audio Recordings of A Matter of Spirit are now available for download:
- Winter 2010 Issue on Poverty & Economic Justice
- Fall 2009 Issue on Peacemaking & Nonviolence
- Spring 2009 Issue on Water
Michael H. Crosby, OFM Cap
6 minute excerpt from Michael Crosby's December 12, 2009 presentation in Seattle - Advent: Inbreaking of the Word in Cosmic History.
His latest project is Choosing Compassion. The Choosing Compassion program includes six 20 minute videos on two DVDs.
Northwest Catholic Women's Convocation IV
- The following podcasts are excerpts of presentations given at the Northwest Catholic Women's Convocation IV held in Bellevue, Washington on May 1 and 2, 2009.
- CD and MP3 recordings of the complete presentations are available for purchase from AVEN.
- DVDs of keynote speakers are also available for purchase from AVEN.
Plenary Sessions
What’s Good for Women is Good for the World
Piercing through the smokescreens of prevailing myths, we will explore our hidden system of gendered values and outline ways we can—and must—lay foundations for a sustainable future for all.
| Riane Eisler |
(8 min excerpt) |
Women Leaders:
Radical Hope for Our World
Throughout history our society has benefited from the gifts and creative vision of women. In our evening program, Cokie draws on this tradition as she raises up and celebrates the leadership gifts of women needed in our world today. Her books include Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation.
| Cokie Roberts |
(8 min excerpt) |
The Radical Hope of Daily Life
Traditional patriarchal myths present hope as the realization of a pre-established form of happiness. Today we are experiencing the end of traditional utopias and an invitation to recover the powerful joy and hope present in our daily life.
| Ivone Gebara |
(10 min excerpt) |
The Future of the World Depends on Women*
When women lead, all aspects of society improve: health, literacy, self-sufficiency. Meg will describe how the world is being changed by women, how change happens, and our role in all of this.
*Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN
| Margaret J. Wheatley |
(6 min excerpt) |
Workshops
A-1 Solidarity as the Embodiment of Hope
Solidarity embodies hope, and is indispensable in achieving the common good. Solidarity opens us to new knowledge and resets our moral and social compass in bringing about the common good.
| M. Shawn Copeland |
(9 min excerpt) |
A-2 The Hope of Radical Nonviolence: A Future of Peace
We will explore the hope we can discover in the struggle for a new world without war, poverty, racism, sexism, nuclear weapons and global warming, a future of peace with all humanity and creation.
| John Dear |
(6 min excerpt) |
A-6 Sacred Earth, Sacred Self: Weaving Together the Universe Story, Spirituality and Compassion for the Planet
Through song, dance, prayer, storytelling and conversation, we will explore our 13.7 billion year ancestry as a sacred story that energizes anew our commitment to heal and nourish the whole Earth Community.
| Marya Grathwohl, OSF |
(8 min excerpt) |
A-7 Iraqi Women’s Voices: Hearing Our Stories
Each of these Iraqi women has an untold story, an embodied memory of her life, family, community, and country which she loves. Each shares a perspective on how life was before and how it is today in Iraq. Within their personal loss and country’s destruction is the seed of hope for all of us to create a new story together.
| Diana Momeka, OP |
(11 min excerpt) |
A-8 Living in a Transformational Time
We live at a transformational moment—when monumental threats create a new openness to change, and ideas from the margins can move rapidly to the mainstream.
| Fran Korten |
(5 min excerpt) |
A-9 The Universe Sings as One
Our lives and stories are fundamentally one with Life, with the Universe. In this workshop we will explore and celebrate this reality as we sing our way into Oneness.
| Jan Novotka |
(5 min excerpt) |
A-11 Urgent Message from Mother:
Gather the Women, Save the World
This is a call from Mother Earth and the Sacred Feminine to bring the feminine principle into consciousness, and to create a critical mass through circles of women.
| Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD |
(9 min excerpt) |
A-12 A Message of Radical Hope from Asia and Asian America
Dr. Tiemeier will share her work in Asian and Asian American women’s theologies, focusing on their interreligious conversations, struggles for liberation, and lessons of hope for a truly catholic Church.
| Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, PhD |
(5 min excerpt) |
B-1 From Generation to Generation
Three generations of “Brennan Women” will reflect on life and ministry in the Catholic Church. They will discuss whether the generational differences they experience are experiential, cultural or theological.
| Mary Kay Moynihan |
(6 min excerpt) |
| Mary Kay Brennan |
(10 min excerpt) |
| Margaret Brennan, IHM |
(7 min excerpt) |
B-2 Hope Beyond Impasse
How might we utilize our spiritual, theological and systems resources to engage ethical issues within church and society in order to participate in God’s ‘new creation’? Come and see!
| Maria Cimperman, OSU |
(10 min excerpt) |
B-8 This is the Time, We are the Ones: Becoming the Prophets We Were Born to Be!
Using music, images and poetry, we will create an environment in which to experience our own wisdom and use it to create a life that is true to our prophetic mission.
| Jan Phillips |
(5 min excerpt) |
B-11 Welcoming the Stranger: Our Call to Respond to the Immigration Crisis
Our immigration system is breaking apart families, and there does not seem to be the political will needed for humane and effective reform. We will explore how people of faith can respond to the biblical call to welcome the stranger in this context.
| Rev. Alexia Salvatierra |
(6 min excerpt) |
B-13 The New Cosmic Creation Story
The greatest gift of four hundred years of modern science is the discovery of the new creation story. This contemporary understanding of the universe as a living, evolving, and interconnected process provides the foundation for building a vibrant Earth Community.
| Brian Swimme, PhD |
(6 min excerpt) |
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