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February 11, 2011

Reflections on the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference

Having the opportunity to attend the 2011 Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference was a transformative and liberating experience. Within created sacred space, we dialogued and engaged with highly informative, woefully skilled, and intellectually astute pastors, ministry workers, and lay persons whose Christian convictions were to uphold the banner of love, mercy, and justice. The issues of liberation and justice were central to the conference theme. Weight was given to imagine the ways in which this liberation and justice can be experienced in the lives of humans today whose bodily realities vehemently speak towards their need for justice, love, mercy, and liberation.

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December 06, 2010

As a Lasallian Volunteer…

by Garret Philbin, Jenn Tyndall, Joleen Wagner, and Alex Downes-Borowski

Discernment is like trying to put together a matching outfit when you’re colorblind. You know that you need a top and that you need a bottom but you have more than one option for each and trying to find a combination that works, without the ability to recognize color, could take some time. Physical and human resources become important as you identify the appropriate apparel that will work for you. When it comes to discernment, going it alone without the ability to identify the unknown may not provide you with the best outcome. Long-term service has the potential to offer the physical and human resources that can guide you to your call. As a Lasallian Volunteer (LV), you are given...

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June 07, 2010

Invest Now In Diverse Generation of Leaders

Dr. Alice W. Hunt, President, Chicago Theological Seminary,
Dr. Sharon Watson Fluker
, FTE Vice President for Doctoral Programs and Administration

Here in Chicago and throughout the United States, men and women scholars of color hunger to make a difference in the lives of our young people, our neighborhoods and our schools...

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