Live Stream Events- Trauma and Recovery in a time of COVID

Talk with Dr. Ashley Theuring

Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 7:30pm
We are in a unique moment, where we are being asked to purposefully isolate ourselves, disrupt our daily routines, and wrestle with the notions of our mortality and the mortality of those we love. Join us for an exploration in the field of trauma theology, in the hopes that what we already know about trauma and recovery can help us survive and thrive in this moment.

http://www.bellarminechapel.org/courage-ahlgren.html

Letter from ISSJ Director, Anna Miller

We stand in the midst of Holy Week and there are beautiful signs of spring outside my window.  This season in the church and in nature speaks to transition and change, a journey from darkness into light.  In a Holy Week unlike any we have experienced in our lifetimes, the symbolic journey of this week perhaps has never been more powerful.  Many of us have new understanding of the pain, confusion and fear that the disciples felt when they confronted a violence and death that upended their vision of a just world- a world that made sense.  Have we ever been so prepared to understand the truly radical change and deep hopefulness of the resurrection?  Now, as we wait for that moment of life-giving change, Mary Magdalene may serve as one of our best teachers in her refusal to allow fear to turn her from the critical work of caring for, of insisting upon the humanity, of the most marginalized.

During this time, as always, the Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice is here to provide a space for learning, reflection, community building, and creating a new social imagination.  Please check out our upcoming classes and come together with us in virtual community for the talks by Professor Gillian Ahlgren and Professor Ashley Theuring, talks that draw upon the richness of the spiritual and theological tradition to speak to the challenges we face at this unique time.