Abstract with Karen Maezen Miller, Author and Zen Buddhist PriestAuthor and Zen Buddhist priest Karen Maezen Miller will present a program centering on creating inner peace to manifest outer peace. Her program will include a wisdom talk and instruction in a short period of seated meditation. Karen Maezen Miller is a sensei, or teacher, at the Hazy Moon Zen center in Los Angeles and a dharma holder in the Japanese Soto Zen lineage of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi, one of the foremost Zen...

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Part of Speak Truth to Power Series – Father Thomas Doyle, spoke of the issue of sexual molestation by Roman Catholic clergy. A leading scholar in Canon Law, Father Doyle serves as an expert witness all over the world for victims of sexual abuse

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At the Jung Center

Abstract Rev. James E. Atwood Suggested donation $10Author and minister, the Rev. James E. Atwood will lead a timely discussion of the theological roots of America’s epidemic of gun violence. The Rev. Atwood contends that the 36,000 gun deaths America suffers every year must be understood in light of the national myth that God has appointed America as “trustee of the civilization of the world” and “Christ’s light to the nations.” Atwood has spent the past 38 years advocating for gun...

Abstract Jeffrey Kripal, Ph.D. Suggested donation $10The past 60 years have witnessed the rise of the “religion of no religion” in America, inspired simultaneously by the insights of modern psychology, the mystical traditions of East and West, the scientific revolutions of the modern world, and the political transformations of democracy. Jeffrey Kripal, Ph.D. explores what made America the unique home to the religion of no religion, and what it means for the future of religion in this...

Abstract The Rothko Chapel and the Transformative Power of Art, A Series "Acts of Faith" The Reverend Susan J. BarnesThis series will celebrate the artistic and spiritual import of the Rothko Chapel, bringing three speakers with close ties to Mark Rothko and the Chapel.The Reverend Susan J. Barnes will address the overarching issue of faith and spirituality in the lives and enterprises of the Menils—of which the Rothko Chapel was the first outward and visible sign: the first...

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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.

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Observed by the Black Students’ Union, University of St. Thomas, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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Observed by the Black Students’ Union, University of St. Thomas

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Contains materials related to public programs during the time period, except for Awards and Colloquia which have separate series.