07.23.06
Two Opportunities
| Event Title: | Franciscan’s International lecture, John Quigley, O.F.M., Richard Rohr, O.F.M. |
| Time: | 7:00 PM (through 9:00 PM) |
| Date: | Saturday, August 19 |
| Location: | Schiff Family Conference Center at Cintas (Xavier Campus) |
| Contact: | franciscansnetwork@cinci.rr.com or call 513 541-7740 |
| Description: | John Quigley, co-founder and executive director of Franciscans International in New York and Geneva, and Richard Rohr, internationally known preacher, author and founder of New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati and the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, N.M. are the guest speaker for this event. The lecture’s title will be, “Our Future in a Globalizing World: Franciscans International’s work at the United Nations and at the grassroots level on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable”. Seating is limited. Suggested $20 donation. All proceeds to benefit Franciscans International. |
Seventh Annual Conference
October 6-7, 2006
MSU Kellogg Center
Lansing, MI
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Miroslav Volf, Director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, Yale University Divinity School.
Dr. Volf will be giving a lecture and a panel discussion on “Remembering Passion: Mistreatment, Memory, and Reconciliation.”
Miroslav Volf was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany. He earned doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He has published and edited nine books and over 60 scholarly articles. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace, in which he reflects on conflicts that are raging around the question of identity, and After Our Likeness, in which he explores the Trinitarian nature of ecclesial community.
I met Richard Rohr at a conference earlier this year. He is both an excellent speaker and an excellent teacher. I’m looking forward to seeing him again.
Miroslav Volf has written one of my favorite books and is intimately connected to Croatia and the Balkans, where I am traveling next year for research. I have contacted him and will be meeting with him for an interview at this conference in October. If anyone is up for the drive, it will be worth it.
Both of these are free and if anyone needs housing, I can set it up for both conferences.
