As part of LMU Extension, the Center for Religion & Spirituality makes a vital contribution to the mission of Loyola Marymount by expanding its religious and educational outreach to a wider range of constituencies in Southern California and beyond.
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Events
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- Neglected Women Heroes of the ...
University Hall 3304, Loyola Marymo...
Saturday, October 31 at 9:30am - Elementary School Religion Con...
Seaver Science Hall 200, Loyola Mar...
Friday, October 16 at 8:30am - Catholic Does Not Equal the Va...
Seaver Science Hall 100, Loyola Mar...
Thursday, October 8 at 7:00pm - Screening of "In Spite of Dark...
The Rose Hills Auditorium, Mout Sai...
Tuesday, October 6 at 7:30pm - Women of Faith, Courage, Integ...
University Hall 3328, Loyola Marymo...
Saturday, September 26 at 9:30am - Ethics in Film: Examining the ...
Saint Robert's Hall 248, Loyola Mar...
Wednesday, July 8 at 7:00pm - LMU Scripture Week 2009
Conrad Hilton Center, Loyola Marymo...
Sunday, June 28 at 7:00pm - Q, the Earliest Gospel
Conrad Hilton Center 100, Loyola Ma...
Sunday, June 28 at 7:00pm - The Road Ahead: A Forum on Jew...
Loyola Marymount University
Tuesday, May 5 at 7:00pm - Henri Nouwen: Integrated Minis...
Loyola Marymount University
Saturday, April 25 at 8:30am
LMU Center for Religion & Spirituality
There are many more women disciples in Early Christianity and female characters in the New Testament than you might suspect, and they play much more significant roles than most people realize. This one-day workshop will explore the rich variety of important female characters in the Gospels and of prominent women in the... life and ministry of St. Paul. Please bring a Bible, an inquisitive mind, and your own questions and/or favorite stories to share with others.
Instructor: Reverend Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D. is currently the Director of Biblical Education at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, CA, through which he offers and directs a variety of adult biblical education programs. He received an S.T.L. in Scripture from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Yale University. He gives many public lectures on Biblical and liturgical topics, is an instructor in the Catholic Bible Institute. Prior to moving to Orange County, he taught theology and religious studies at Loyola Marymount University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Santa Clara. He is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature, and maintains a large internationally acclaimed website with a wide variety of biblical and liturgical materials, Catholic-Resources.org.
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Instructor: Reverend Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D. is currently the Director of Biblical Education at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, CA, through which he offers and directs a variety of adult biblical education programs. He received an S.T.L. in Scripture from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from Yale University. He gives many public lectures on Biblical and liturgical topics, is an instructor in the Catholic Bible Institute. Prior to moving to Orange County, he taught theology and religious studies at Loyola Marymount University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Santa Clara. He is an active member of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature, and maintains a large internationally acclaimed website with a wide variety of biblical and liturgical materials, Catholic-Resources.org.
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Understand the significant roles of women in the New Testament.
Time:9:30AM Saturday, October 31st
Location:University Hall 3304, Loyola Marymount University
LMU Center for Religion & Spirituality
In collaboration with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, this one-day conference for Catholic Elementary School religion coordinators, faculty and principals will make use of Ignatian Spirituality to explore the ministry of leadership in a changing world. This year's theme, Restorative Justice and the Classroom, how the ...administering of discipline with students can be a teaching moment about peacemaking and faith, will feature keynote speakers Ron and Roxanne Classeen.
Roxanne Claassen, M.A. is a teacher at Raisin City Elementary, a diverse K-8 school in rural Fresno County, California. She has twenty years of classroom experience at both the elementary and middle school levels. Roxanne has served as a mentor teacher, a beginning teacher support provider, and peer mediation coordinator. Roxanne and Ron co-authored a training book, Making Things Right, with 32 activities that teach conflict resolution and mediation skills. Roxanne has trained more than two hundred teachers to use Discipline that Restores in their classrooms and to initiate and administer student mediation programs in their schools. Roxanne honestly says that discipline is one of her favorite parts of teaching. Her Master’s Degree in Conflict and Peacemaking enabled her to introduce and implement restorative discipline practices in her school. Roxanne uses cooperative structures and mediation to handle most discipline problems.
Ron Claassen, M.A., M.Div., D.Min. is the co-founder and Director of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University. Ron teaches School Conflict and Mediation, Advanced Mediation, Restorative Justice, and several other courses in the MA Peacemaking and Conflict Studies Program at Fresno Pacific University. Ron also provides training, consultation, and intervention services in the community. Ron was the founder and former director of the Fresno County Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP), the first in California. He has extensive experience in both civil and criminal mediation and has trained thousands in restorative justice, conflict resolution, peacemaking and mediation. He is the author of numerous articles and training manuals including Restorative Justice Fundamental Principles, adopted by the UN Working Party on Restorative Justice, and Making Things Right, a curriculum for Schools co-authored with his wife, Roxanne. He was the recipient of the 2007 Carl and Esther Robinson Outstanding Advocate for the Common Good Award. In addition to consulting with many school districts Ron initiated and helped implement the Restorative Discipline policy at Fresno Pacific University.
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Roxanne Claassen, M.A. is a teacher at Raisin City Elementary, a diverse K-8 school in rural Fresno County, California. She has twenty years of classroom experience at both the elementary and middle school levels. Roxanne has served as a mentor teacher, a beginning teacher support provider, and peer mediation coordinator. Roxanne and Ron co-authored a training book, Making Things Right, with 32 activities that teach conflict resolution and mediation skills. Roxanne has trained more than two hundred teachers to use Discipline that Restores in their classrooms and to initiate and administer student mediation programs in their schools. Roxanne honestly says that discipline is one of her favorite parts of teaching. Her Master’s Degree in Conflict and Peacemaking enabled her to introduce and implement restorative discipline practices in her school. Roxanne uses cooperative structures and mediation to handle most discipline problems.
Ron Claassen, M.A., M.Div., D.Min. is the co-founder and Director of the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University. Ron teaches School Conflict and Mediation, Advanced Mediation, Restorative Justice, and several other courses in the MA Peacemaking and Conflict Studies Program at Fresno Pacific University. Ron also provides training, consultation, and intervention services in the community. Ron was the founder and former director of the Fresno County Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP), the first in California. He has extensive experience in both civil and criminal mediation and has trained thousands in restorative justice, conflict resolution, peacemaking and mediation. He is the author of numerous articles and training manuals including Restorative Justice Fundamental Principles, adopted by the UN Working Party on Restorative Justice, and Making Things Right, a curriculum for Schools co-authored with his wife, Roxanne. He was the recipient of the 2007 Carl and Esther Robinson Outstanding Advocate for the Common Good Award. In addition to consulting with many school districts Ron initiated and helped implement the Restorative Discipline policy at Fresno Pacific University.
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Restorative Justice and the Classroom: How the Administering of Discipline with Students can be a Teaching Moment about Peacemaking and Faith.
Time:8:30AM Friday, October 16th
Location:Seaver Science Hall 200, Loyola Marymount University
LMU Center for Religion & Spirituality
In this lecture based on her book Catholic Does Not Equal the Vatican: A Vision for Progressive Catholicism, Professor Rosemary Radford Ruether, Ph.D., one of the most widely read feminist theologians in North America and considered one of the leading Catholics of her generation, discusses the essential elements of a v...ision of progressive Catholicism and the need to maintain a commitment to this vision despite the rightward drift of much of Vatican-centered official Catholicism. Professor Ruether offers a road-map of vision and commitment for progressive Catholics who find themselves outside Vatican-centered official Catholicism. Professor Ruether will be available to sign books after the lecture.
Lecturer Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD is the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology. Ruether has published numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Her most recent books include Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (May 2005), Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions (Nature's Meaning) (January 2005), and Mountain Sisters: From Convent To Community In Appalachia. Currently, she is collaborating on a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American Religion with Rosemary Skinner Keller, a project funded by the Lilly Endowment.
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Lecturer Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD is the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology. Ruether has published numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women’s Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Her most recent books include Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (May 2005), Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions (Nature's Meaning) (January 2005), and Mountain Sisters: From Convent To Community In Appalachia. Currently, she is collaborating on a multi-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American Religion with Rosemary Skinner Keller, a project funded by the Lilly Endowment.
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Professor Rosemary Radford Ruther outlines a vision of progressive Catholicism in this evening lecture at Loyola Marymount.
Time:7:00PM Thursday, October 8th
Location:Seaver Science Hall 100, Loyola Marymount University
LMU Center for Religion & Spirituality
Every November an interfaith retreat is held at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, where more than 1 million people, nearly all of them European Jews, were exterminated by the Nazis. Why would someone participate in such a retreat? How could anyone attempt to pray or meditate in a place tha...t silences the heart and chills the soul? Filmed over a period of seven days, In Spite of Darkness tells the story of five retreatants — among them, a rabbi, an atheist, and a Catholic priest — and how they come face to face not only with their own vulnerabilities and complicity but with new strength, peace, and glimmers of hope.
The documentary premiered in Trent, Italy, on October 18, 2008, at Religion Today Film Festival. Since then, it has been screened as numerous festivals and institutions, including the European Spiritual Film Festival in Paris and Trent Collegio Salesiano Astori – Mogliano Veneto, Italy. In Spite of Darkness has been honored with three Silver Telly Awards in Religion and Spirituality, Music, and Cinematography, the Redemptive Storyteller Award athe the Redemptive Film Festival in Virginia Beach, VA, and the Best Documentary Award at the Magnificat Film Festival in Belarus. The evening will conclude with a remarks by local scholars, and a public forum with producer Ron Schmidt.
Learn more here: http://www.lmu.edu/academics/extension/c
The documentary premiered in Trent, Italy, on October 18, 2008, at Religion Today Film Festival. Since then, it has been screened as numerous festivals and institutions, including the European Spiritual Film Festival in Paris and Trent Collegio Salesiano Astori – Mogliano Veneto, Italy. In Spite of Darkness has been honored with three Silver Telly Awards in Religion and Spirituality, Music, and Cinematography, the Redemptive Storyteller Award athe the Redemptive Film Festival in Virginia Beach, VA, and the Best Documentary Award at the Magnificat Film Festival in Belarus. The evening will conclude with a remarks by local scholars, and a public forum with producer Ron Schmidt.
Learn more here: http://www.lmu.edu/academics/extension/c
The public is invited to The Big Picture screening of the award winning film "In Spite of Darkness" with producer Ron Schmidt.
Time:7:30PM Tuesday, October 6th
Location:The Rose Hills Auditorium, Mout Saint Mary's College (Dohney Campus)
LMU Center for Religion & Spirituality
This workshop focuses on women in the Old Testament whose faith, courage and integrity made them pillars of hope for other women, models of fidelity for women and men seeking to work together to respond to God’s calls. First we will examine the faith and courage of Deborah, one of the first Judges for the Israelites af...ter their settling in Caanan. Her solid conviction and jubilant faith in God’s fidelity enabled her to challenge the fainthearted around her—men and women, leaders and followers, tribes and gentiles—to be stouthearted. Then we will explore the women around Moses who made his life, his preparation for the task God would give him, his singleness of vision and of service on behalf of Jewish slaves and desert wanderers—possible. This network of women previews effective and faith-driven support systems which ground life-saving and life-enhancing work done even today. Finally, we will re-live the fears and hopes, the sense of powerlessness and of unexpected help, the “can-do” attitudes of the women in the Book of Tobit. Family relationships are so different from family to family. But in these stories of hardship faced with God-driven determination, we will see again the experiences which have shaped women of faith throughout Israel’s and Christianity’s history.
Instructor: Nadine McGuinness, C.S.J., PhD, a Sister of St Joseph of Orange, and recently added to Loyola Marymount's Department of Theological Studies as adjunct faculty, earned her doctorate in Systematic Theology from the University of St Michael’s College, Toronto, partially through defense of the dissertation, The Experience of Jesus Christ as Savior Today in Sharing the Light of Faith, the National Catechetical Directory for Catholics of the United States: A Critique Using Selected Writings of Karl Rahner. Her most recent work has been as Director of the Ministry Formation Institute of the Diocese of San Bernardino, where she contributed to the development of systematic faith formation programs for lay leaders involved in church ministry and those seeking ordination to the Permanent Diaconate.
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Instructor: Nadine McGuinness, C.S.J., PhD, a Sister of St Joseph of Orange, and recently added to Loyola Marymount's Department of Theological Studies as adjunct faculty, earned her doctorate in Systematic Theology from the University of St Michael’s College, Toronto, partially through defense of the dissertation, The Experience of Jesus Christ as Savior Today in Sharing the Light of Faith, the National Catechetical Directory for Catholics of the United States: A Critique Using Selected Writings of Karl Rahner. Her most recent work has been as Director of the Ministry Formation Institute of the Diocese of San Bernardino, where she contributed to the development of systematic faith formation programs for lay leaders involved in church ministry and those seeking ordination to the Permanent Diaconate.
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Explore how Old Testament experiences have shaped women of faith throughout Israel’s and Christianity’s history.
Time:9:30AM Saturday, September 26th
Location:University Hall 3328, Loyola Marymount University
