Feb 27 Tip: Attend tonight's Black History Event

February 27 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Attend tonight's Black History Month Program at Bellarmine University

Interfaith Paths to Peace is honored to be among the sponsors for this outstanding event:

Seventh Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture

The Wound and the Witness: 

Thomas Merton and King 

and the Exercise of the Prophetic

M. Shawn Copeland

February 27th 2013 - 7 pm

Hilary's, Horrigan Hall, 

Bellarmine University

A body of broken bones:" Such was Thomas Merton's appraisal of the human condition. It remains as apt today as in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During his life Martin Luther King, Jr., strove to apply a logic of healing love to the broken community we are. This lecture explores the intersection of Merton's loving diagnosis and King's loving cure.

M. Shawn Copeland is a tenured associate professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology and holds an appointment in the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. Copeland is a former Convenor of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium (BCTS), an interdisciplinary learned association of Black Catholic scholars, and is recognized as one of the most important influences in North America in drawing attention to issues surrounding African American Catholics, and was the first African American and first African American woman to serve as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA).

Copeland has lectured extensively in the United States and has authored more than 100 articles, reviews, and book chapters, and co-edited two volumes of the international theological journal Concilium. She is the author of The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille (Paulist Press 2009), of Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Fortress Press, November 2010), and the principal editor ofUncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience (Orbis Books 2009).

She is the recipient of five honorary degrees. She has been recognized for her theological scholarship by the Black Religious Scholars Group of the American Academy of Religion and by Barry University with the Yves Congar Award for Excellence in Theology; her advocacy has been recognized by the Sojourner Truth Award from the Black Women's Community Development Foundation.

Sponsored by: Campus Ministry; Center for Interfaith Relations; Compassionate Louisville; Interfaith Paths to Peace; M.A. in Spirituality Program; The Office of Multicultural Affairs; Theology Department; University of Louisville Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research.