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Local Opportunities
Prayer for Christian Unity.
Jan. 24.
9:00pm. UNI Commons Ballroom. The Campus Ministry Association at
the University of Northern Iowa and St. Stephen the Witness
Catholic Student Center will co-host an ecumenical prayer
service which coincides with the Week of Prayer for
Christian Unity Jan. 18-25. Participants are asked to bring hats, gloves, canned
goods, paper towels, toilet paper, or personal care items such
as shampoo, shaving cream, and disposable razors which will
donated to the Cedar Valley Hospitality House. Contact Shannon Duffy at 319-266-9863.
Race Exhibit. Feb. 6-June 9.
UNI Museums, Cedar Falls. “Race—Are We
So Different?”is the title of a traveling exhibit created by
the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the
Science Museum of Minnesota. It examines the everyday
experience of race, the contemporary science that is challenging
common ideas about race, and the history of this idea in the
United States.
http://www.uni.edu/museum/exhibits/upcoming.html#race
Social Justice Week. Feb.
13. 7:00pm. Commons at St. Stephen the Witness Catholic
Student Center, Cedar Falls. Dave Cushing, director of adult formation for the
Catholic Parishes in Waterloo and coordinator of the Cedar
Valley Catholic Social Justice Network, will lead a discussion
on Living Social Justice in Everyday Life as
part of Social Justice week activities. Contact
Shannon Duffy at 319-266-9863.
NEW - Human Rights Conference. Feb. 17.
7:00am-3:00pm. Allen College, Waterloo. “Practicing Hospitality
in a World of Difference” is the theme for the 13th
annual Cedar Valley Human Rights Conference. The featured
speaker is Dr. Robert A. Franklin,
Assistant Professor in the School
of Communication, Fine Arts and Media at the University of
Nebraska, Omaha and Director of Media
Operations at KVNO-FM and UNO-TV. Enrollment is limited. $30 (includes
breakfast and lunch). For registration call 319-291-4441.
www.ci.waterloo.ia.us/humanrights
Social Justice Lenten
Retreat. Feb. 25. 9:00am-3:30pm. O'Hagan Hall,
Sacred Heart Parish, Waterloo. Brian Terrell of the Des
Moines Catholic Worker community will facilitate this year's
retreat co-hosted by the Cedar Valley Catholic Social Justice
Network and the Waterloo Catholic Worker. Contact Dave Cushing at 319-234-9912.
www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/sjlentenretreat.htm
Racial Categorization. Feb. 28.
7:00-8:30pm. UNI Museums, Cedar Falls. Drs. Kim
and Otto MacLin, Professors of Psychology at UNI will discuss
how the human brain processes racial information and the impact
of racial categorization on stereotypes and prejudice.
This program is held in
conjunction with the exhibit Race--Are We So Different.
U.S. Military in the Post-9/11 World. Feb.
29. Room 002, Sabin Hall. UNI. Andrew Bacevich, an expert on
U.S. foreign policy and military affairs, will discuss the
forces that have shaped U.S. national security and the rise of a
"perpetual war" that affects the economy, society and politics
of the United States, and our place in the world. Bacevich is a
retired army colonel and professor at Boston University who
writes frequently for various publications, including Commonweal
and America. Contact: Philip Mauceri at 319-273-2221 (email
philip.mauceri@uni.edu ).
Torture and World Community. March 1. 3:00pm.
TBA/UNI. Prof. Marjorie Cohn,
author of The United States and Torture: Interrogation,
Incarceration, and Abuse (2011) and Rules of
Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent
(2009), will be speak on the problems of torture and the
role it plays in destroying the possibility of world community. Cohn
is professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San
Diego and immediate past president of the National Lawyers
Guild.
Continuing
Local Opportunities
Catholic
Worker Prayer. St. Francis Catholic Worker Community in Waterloo
holds its monthly prayer on the first Tuesday evening of the
month. Prayer begins at 6:15pm at the Catholic Worker
House, 321 East Eighth St. Contact
the Worker at 319-232-2116.
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Regional Opportunities
Revolution of the
Heart: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day.
Feb. 6, 7:00 – 9:00pm. Shalom
Retreat Center, Dubuque. Amanda Osheim, Asst. Prof. of Practical
Theology at Loras College, will be the featured speaker for a
discussion of the spirituality of Dorothy Day.
Offering: $10. Registration deadline: Feb. 3. Contact Shalom at
563-582-3592.
Mardi Gras Event. Feb. 18.
7:30-10:30pm. Catholic Pastoral Center, Des Moines. The Center for Social Ministry and
Catholic Charities will co-host an adult Mardi Gras event. The
event will include costumes,
music, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, dancing and a prayer ritual
designed to help participants prepare for the transformative
experience of the Lenten season. $40/Individual or $75/Couple.
Contact Susie Paloma at 515-782-3054 (email
centerforsocialministry@gmail.com). Register online at:
www.CatholicCharitiesDM.org
Bishop Dingman Dinner. March 31. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Joshua
Casteel will be keynote speakers at the annual Bishop Maurice J. Dingman Dinner sponsored by Catholic Peace Ministry in Des
Moines. Bishop Gumbleton is the retried auxiliary bishop
of Detroit; Casteel is a
former Army interrogator and conscientious objector who is author of Letters from Abu Ghraib. Contact Catholic
Peace Ministry at 515-255-8114 (email jjwcpm@yahoo.com
).
Nonviolence
Workshop. April 11. 9:00am-4:00pm. Prairie Retreat
Center near Wheatland, Iowa. Sr. Caridad Inda CHM will
conduct this one-day workshop on nonviolent resistance based on
the work of Gene Sharp. Sharp believes that hierarchical
institutions depend on the obedience of the governed and will
change or fail if the governed resist. Fee: $20 (includes
lunch).
Contact Prairie Retreat at
563-336-8414.
Continuing
Regional Opportunities
Cedar Rapids Peace Vigil every Friday,
regardless of weather, 4:30 to 5:30pm, at 1st Avenue & 1st Street
NE, Cedar Rapids (at the Tree of Five Seasons, across from the
Federal Building). Contact Bob at
319-360-5119. Information at
www.WFPI.info/contact_us.htm
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Online Opportunities
Praying for Peace
and Justice. Jan. 30-Feb. 24. This 12-part
online experience is sponsored by Spirituality & Practice and
conducted by Jane Vennard. It consists of email
reflections provided on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and
access to a "Practice Circle" for continued discussion and
support. $49.95 (includes 4 CEHs for chaplains).
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/ecourses/ecourses.php?id=122&key=sp
Windows and
Mirrors.
View this traveling
exhibit of over 45 large scale paintings by international
artists and Afghan high school students depicting life in war
torn Afghanistan organized by the American Friends Service
Committee.
http://windowsandmirrors.org/
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