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February 11, 2011
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
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
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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