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Taking your Soul to Work
Mimi Marrocco came to Faith Connections' Theology on Tap" on June 14 and made a wonderful case for being ourselves during the 70% of our lives that we spend during our waking lives at work. Her illustration of the cost of denying that self, staying safe, was drawn from Dickens’ novel Great Expectations: Wemmick, the “post-office-mouth man” – man as machine during office hours.
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Let us build the city of God
“Every political discussion is a question of vision and values,” said Councillor Joe Mihevc at Theology on Tap’s April event. “You just need to tease these out.” He urged his audience to use their faith commitment to transform the world. As a city councillor for the past 15 years, with a PhD in theology and social ethics, he is well placed to discuss this topic.
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Bread For My Neighbour is Spiritual
Father Jack Costello SJ came to Theology on Tap March 29 and spoke on “Want to do justice? First fall in love.”
He invited his listeners to forget about labels — “We have our sense of where real shadows lie in the areas of gender, the environment and economics.” He directed them to look past the cynicism that comes with trying to gain happiness from driving SUV’s. “Life is about being in love and caring for people,” he said, “Bread for my neighbour is spiritual.”
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Working for Peace
“To proudly preach peace one should be willing to die for it” William Payne
In a Mi’kmaq village in New Brunswick, William Payne falls sick while being part of a violence-reduction team sent by Christian Peacemaker Teams. He receives an herbal remedy from the chief’s sister for his flu and recovers. When he thanks Kwegsi at the band office the next day, the chief laughs and says to the young people with him, “ We never learn. For 500 years when they get sick, we give them medicine!”
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Standing Room Only for Theology on Tap
Over 60 people packed the back two rooms of the Foxes Den Pub on Nov. 23 to hear Dr. Moira McQueen (photo left), bioethicist and moral theologian from St. Michael’s Faculty of Theology, speak on “Moral Decision Making.”