2020 - 2021

Jesse Thistle 

Author : From The Ashes
Personal Memoir - The 60's Scoop

Principal’s  Lecture  

Jesse Thistle is Métis-Cree and an Assistant Professor at York University in Toronto. He is a PhD candidate in the History program at York where he is working on theories of intergenerational and historic trauma of the Métis people. Jesse has won the P.E. Trudeau and Vanier doctoral scholarships, and he is a governor general medalist.  Jesse is the author of the Definition of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada published through the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, and his historical research has been published in numerous academic journals, book chapters, and featured on CBC Ideas, CBC Campus, and Unreserved. His award-winning memoir, From the Ashes, is a #1 national bestseller, a CBC Canada Reads finalist, and an Indigo Best Book of 2019.

FINDING THE TRAIL: A MÉTIS LIFE OVERCOMING ADVERSITY

This lecture is an autobiographical keynote which explores themes from his debut memoir, From the Ashes. He reflects on his story, one that recounts trauma, addiction, and homelessness. Through his remarks, audiences will learn a deeper story of hope and resilience, one that will stick with them for days after.

Co-sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph

Shane Claiborne 

Activist and Author

Christ the King Lecture

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, Shane founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail for advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty and help stop gun violence. Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, Executing Grace, and The Irresistible Revolution.

The Jesus Way in The World Today

Our faith is not just a way of believing. It is a way of living in the world. Christians are meant to be noncon-formists, interrupting the patterns of our world with prophetic imagination. We should be a holy countercul-ture. After all, the Kingdom of God is not just something we hope for when we die, but something that we are to bring on earth as it is in heaven.

REGISTER:

Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Darren Dias OP  

Dominican Priest | Inter Religious Dialogue | Eastern Religions

Darren Dias is Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Faculty of Theology, University of St Michael’s College.  His area of research includes the intersection of lived religion and doctrine, in particular Trinitarian theology and religious diversity.  Having served on the Roman Catholic-Hindu Dialogue of Canada, he has recently been appointed to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops-Canadian Council of Imams Working Group. Some recent publications include: “Interreligious Dialogue as Language Negotiation” (2020) “Pierre Claverie: Holiness in a World Church” (2020) “Trinity, Elemental Meaning and Psychic Conversion: A Pastoral Consideration” (2020), and an edited volume, Church, Migration and Global (In)Difference (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) with Michael Attridge and Jarosalv Skira.

INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE TODAY: A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE

Famed Canadian ecumenist Jean-Marie Tillard characterized “kissy” dialogue as superficial and saccharine exchanges aimed at making dialogue participants feel good and arriving at easy agree-ment. Interreligious dialogues could be similarly characterized. But the experience and practice of interreligious dialogue has proven that dialogue can be complex and even confusing. This lecture raises some issues about dialogue that emerge out of our contemporary postcolonial contexts. These issues will be illustrated with examples from the life of Bl. Pierre Claverie, martyr of Algeria whose ministry was dedicated to interreligious healing.

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Jewish-Catholic-Muslim Learning.

REGISTER:

Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Ann Garrido 

Professor of Homiletics

Ann Garrido is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO and founding director of the school’s masters degree program in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.  She has served as a catechist with children ages 3-12 since 1996, and has been a formation leader with the U.S. National Association of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd since 1999, a member of the association’s formation committee since 2004.  She is the author of numerous books, including Mustard Seed Preaching (LTP, 2003) and A Year with Sofia Cavalletti (LTP, 2017).

ALLOWING GOD TO FILL IN THE BLANKS: PRAYING WITH THE WOMEN OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

Just over fifty women are mentioned in the New Testament.  Yet rarely do we know their names, and even more rarely do we know anything of their stories.  A better understanding of first century Palestine helps us to glean a better picture of what their lives may have been like, but much remains to the realm of imagination.  Ann Garrido will talk about how prayerful imagination of their stories has been an important part of her own vocational journey as one of the first lay women in the U.S. to earn her doctorate in preaching from a Catholic institution

Co-sponsored by the Liturgy Office of the Diocese of London.

REGISTER:

Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.