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Radical Christian Life: Equipping Ourselves for Social Change
- Categorized in: CSF Events & Programs, This Week at St. James
Trinity Institute’s 42nd National Theological Conference, Radical Christian Life: Equipping Ourselves for Social Change, will be held November 9-11, 2012 and simultaneously webcast at St. James by the Center for Spiritual Formation.
Joan Chittister, OSB will return to Trinity Institute for a local and webcast conference that will offer tools for making the vital connection between contemplation and social action. She will be supported by workshop leaders including theologians, spiritual directors, and activists. Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, author, teacher, and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, will preach at the conference Eucharist.
Through plenary addresses, creative work sessions, and worship, this three-day conference will explore questions such as:
- How can our Christian traditions of social justice and contemplation energize our communities as forces for positive change in the world around us?
- What practices help us to discern where we are called to engage?
- Where may we find sources of creativity and resilience within our tradition?
- How can we work in partnership with those of other faiths and no faith as we follow God’s call?
In the 21st century, people seek to cope and to create in a world that is shifting on its very foundations. Economic inequity threatens to tear us apart at the seams. The forces of globalization demand that we rethink what it means to be a community and where our mutual responsibilities lie. It is a time of classic crisis, forged of equal parts threat and opportunity.
"Our task is now to be radical Christian communities in the here and now, not fossils of a bygone reality, not leftovers from an earlier golden age. Now we need new wisdom and a new kind of struggle to determine what we must be and do in the midst of these changing times. The question is then: What does it mean to be a radical Christian community in times such as these?"
-- Joan Chittister, The Radical Christian Life
"To have an attitude of faith is to hear the Lord speaking everywhere and all the time, in the concrete and ordinary circumstances of our lives. Then religion and life have become one, and we are never far from God."
-- Richard Rohr, Radical Grace
The conference will be presented at Trinity Church, andl simultaneously be offered via webcast exclusively at Partner Sites, including the St. James Center for Spiritual Formation.
Preparation for the Conference:
- Visit the Trinity Institute website to learn more about the content and speakers
- Check out the reading list.
- Register for the webcast, or by phone at 225-387-5141: $10 for Friday's session; $15 for Saturday, includes lunch
- Request the brief daily devotions emailed to registrants; email Jo Craddock or phone 225-387-5141 with your request and email address to add to the distribution list.