ABOUT JOAN CHITTISTER

Joan Chittister, OSB, is one of the most articulate social analysts and influential religious leaders of our age. For over 30 years she has put her energy into advocating for the critical questions impacting the global community. Courageous, passionate and charged with energy, she is a much-sought after speaker, counselor and clear voice across all religions. A Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania, Sister Joan is the author of more than 40 books. She writes a regular column, “From Where I Stand” for the National Catholic Reporter.

Currently Sister Joan serves as co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women, a partner organization of the U.N., facilitating a worldwide network of women peace builders. She served as an advisor for the groundbreaking report, "A Woman's Nation" by Maria Shriver and was part of the interfaith council that theologian Karen Armstrong gathered to draft the “Charter for Compassion”–promulgated worldwide.

To learn more about Sr. Joan’s ministry log on to her website at www.benetvision.org

Celebrating 10+ Years of Womenspirit!

WomenSpirit is an ecumenical collaboration of Twin Cities organizations sponsoring events that explore and reflect women’s spirituality. We seek to promote interconnectedness between people of all races, cultures and religions. Called to a collaborative form of leadership, we rely mostly on volunteers. Our programs over the past ten years have included authors, poets, liturgical dancers, biblical scholars, teachers, spiritual directors, historians, pastors, rabbis and laywomen.

Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB

The New Violence and
Its Unintended Victims

Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 7:00pm

Westminster Presbyterian Church

Nicollet Mall & 12th St., Downtown Minneapolis

612-332-3421

Admission is free and open to the public

Picnic Supper 5:30 pm


Music 6:30 pm


Reception and book-signing follow the presentation.

“To hear Joan speak is like sitting in a room with a blazing furnace where the heat is so intense that the paint on the wall blisters and peels.”

Sponsored by WomenSpirit and the Westminster Town Hall Forum

To learn more about this event log on to www.westminsterforum.org

About Westminster Town Hall Forum

In 1980, a group of visionary church members, including Diane and Paul Niemann and the Rev. Donald M. Meisel, recognized a need in the greater community for an expanded understanding of the complex issues confronting our society and world. They developed the concept of a free, noontime forum where leading thinkers, authors, innovators, and activists could provide ethical reflection on pressing contemporary issues.

A guiding theme for the Forum was established — voices of conscience: key issues in ethical perspective. To ensure that the Forum included a broad range of ideas and opinions, the founders determined that forums would be nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and free and open to the public. Those basis tenets remain essential components of the Forum today.