Celebrating Ten 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.

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Event Information:

Fall '08

 

“SPEAK OUT: Preventing War; Creating Peace”Minneapolis, MN. - Out of a concern about the United States’ and Iran’s current rhetoric about nuclear weapons and escalation of the language of war, WomenSpirit has designed a 3 part series to increase the dialogue between women about the real effects of war and the threats of war on women and children in those countries most affected by violence. Also in the discussion there will be talk about how spirituality/religion can help us to understand each other and to create peace.


PART THREE - January 25, 2008
WOMEN, RELIGION AND WAR
Empowering Women as Peacemakers

WomenSpirit, the ecumenical collaboration of 11 Twin Cities organizations supporting women on their spiritual journey, offers program three in its series: Speak Out: Preventing War; Creating Peace with a DVD showing of “Women, Power, Peace” by Sister Joan Chittister, OSB..

Sister Joan, a Benedictine nun from Erie, PA and co-chair of the UN-sponsored Global Peace Initiative of Women, is internationally known as a writer and lecturer who asks the hard questions: What does war do to women? What does religion have to do with war? Where are women in the peace making process?

Since “War falls hardest, longest and cruelest on women, “ Sister Joan Chittister declares, “women as life givers must now give the world the spirit life it lacks.” She states, “Women have a right to demand a voice in the development of peaceful alternatives to war.”

The DVD Showing and Small Group Discussion:

Sunday, January 25, 2009

2-4PM

Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis

$10 Admission; $5 for Students with ID Cash or check only; Donations appreciated

For additional information call the LuAnn Dummer Center for Women at 651-962-6118 or WomenSpirit at 612.823.5901