Month: November 2012

Books

Book Alert: Demanding Dignity

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From the same folks who brought you All-American. Pre-order and get 40% off now. Looks like a great anthology. White Cloud Press And Riverwood Books – Demanding Dignity: Young Voices From the Front Lines of the Arab. Demanding Dignity: Young Voices from the Arab Revolutions brings together essays written by today’s generation of Arab youth who have directly inspired and sparked a revolutionary spirit that toppled governments, unearthing the corruption of decades of dictator dominated countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Events Inter-faith

Annual McGinley Lecture to Address Life After Death

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Annual McGinley Lecture to Address Life After Death. Patrick J Ryan, S.J., the Lawrence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society, will deliver the annual fall McGinley lecture, “Life After Death, Hopes and Fears for Jews, Christians and Muslims.”  Father Ryan, who has dedicated his work to facilitating a trialogue between the three Abrahamic religions, will deliver the lecture twice: Tuesday, Nov. 13 6 p.m. 12th-floor Lounge Lowenstein Center, Lincoln Center Campus  And again on  Wednesday, Nov. 14 6 p.m. Flom Auditorium William D. Walsh Family Library, Rose Hill Campus Joining Father Ryan on both nights will be respondents Claudia Setzer,…

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