The focus of the Summer 2024 issue is Courageous Acts of Prophetic Love. The challenges we face as a global community and as a nation in this period of turmoil, combined with the major shifts occurring today within religious life, require that we live with courage.
Writers for this issue of Occasional Papers will explore the call to raise courageous questions, speak truth, make hard decisions, live and lead from a stance of vulnerability, be a courageous listener, and know the soul of one's sisters so that we can be sources of prophetic love – for the world, the church, our religious institutes, and one another.
Interviews in this issue are with grief and loss expert David Kessler, author of several books including Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief; Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of On Being’s “Poetry Unbound”; and Mohammed Mohammed, senior program officer at the Fetzer Institute and contributor to the Fetzer study, “What Does Spirituality Mean to Us?”
Included in this issue are articles in addition to the interviews:
- Prophecy and the Sacramentality of Time: Interpreting Events from God's Point of View - Judith Marie Kubicki, CSSF explores the role of prophecy for religious life leaders
- A New Song for a New Reality - Mary Ann Buckley, SHCJ shares how her institute worked to name the realities of their lives
- Watching the World with Wonder - Pádraig Ó Tuama, in an interview, shares insights on how to live prophetically and courageously in today's world
- Called to Holy Curiosity: Coming to Know the Soul of Our Sisters - Judy Donovan, CSJ writes of the journey of learning the deep hopes and desires of one's sisters
- 'Felled by Life's Sensitivity to Grace': The Call to Vulnerability - Barbara Beasley, RGS reflects on how vulnerability is a leadership asset
- The Courageous Listening Required of Leadership - Mary Susanna Aguilera Vásquez, OP describes the importance of listening to learn
- Finding Meaning in Our Grief and Loss - David Kessler, in an interview, offers ideas on how to deal effectively with the multiple losses religious face today
- Broken Into Wholeness - Laura Bregar, OSU shares stories illustrating the need for leaders to speak truth
- What I Have Learned About Courageous, Loving Leadership - Maryann A. McMahon, OP reflects the challenges of making difficult decisions as a leader
- Raising Courageous Questions - Mary Jo Nelson, OLVM offers ideas on how to formulate and ask transforming questions
- Claiming a Role in the Serach for a Meaningful Spirituality - Mohammed Hamid Mohammed shares, in an interview, insights on a study on the role of spirituality in the United States
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