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Western Montana Spiritual Development Council strives to maintain a vibrant schedule of speakers and events to offer the wider community.

LISTED BY YEAR:

2012

Michael Dowd: "Does Science reveal that Death is no less sacred than Life? " and Connie Barlow: Experiential, meditative "Stardust Ritual" A Hopeful, Inspiring Vision - Bringing Faith & Science Together Free Public Presentation - discussion following - CDs & books available to purchase (Friday Sept. 7)

Ira Byock, MD: "The Best Care Possible: Celebrating Medicine, Facing Death, Finding Life" (Saturday, April 14)

2011

2010

The Affording Hope Project Presents: Tevyn East producer and performer of Leaps and Bounds, a live theatrical production
about how FAITH speaks to our deepening ECOLOGICAL and ECONOMIC crises. Written by Ched Meyers
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SR. HELEN PREJEAN, author of Dead Man Walking, Death Penalty Abolition Coalition Event

 

The Western Montana Spiritual Development Council has produced a DVD of Sister Helen Prejean’s keynote address from the Montana Abolition Coalition’s annual meeting in Missoula in April. The two-hour DVD also contains selected segments of Prejean’s talk at the Faith Response to the Death Penalty workshop and segments from the Murder Victim Family Members workshop. The DVD is designed for use in educational, religious and community settings. These DVD segments are available to view on the WMSDC YouTube Channel; go to http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWMSDC?feature=mhum#p/u

 

2009

CLIVE RAINEY  - Habitat for Humanity's ‘1ST Volunteer’ -  1ST Africa Director for Habitat International, Housing as Community Health” and on Habitat as a ministry of reconciliation for faith communities

2008

COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP repeat
EAST MEETS WEST: INTERCONNECTING FOR PEACE
Weaving eastern and western spiritual practices, Sister Maggie and Father Prashant of India - an evening of movement meditation.
ANDREW FIALA - The Just War Myth: Moral Illusions of War
Co-sponsored with UM Ethics Center & Military Science Dept.
REV. TRI ROBINSON - Biblical Solutions to A World In Crisis
Rev. Robinson from The Vineyard Church, Boise
Wilderness Institute Lecture, UM
WAR, MORALITY & AUTONOMY: An Investigation into Just War
Col. Daniel Zupan [Ret.], former West Point Ethics Professor
Co-Sponsored with UM Ethics Center & Military Science Dept.
REV MICHAEL DOWD - Thank God for Evolution
BRIAN TERREL, Catholic Peace Ministry, Nebraska, talks on current efforts to criminalize social action and dissent, conscientious objection.
AT THE DEATH hOUSE DOOR - Special free film preview: ...through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served as the death house chaplain to the infamous prison unit in Huntsville,Texas.
JOHN DEAR, Noble Peace Prize Nominee - A Persistant Peace,  OCTOBER 6TH

2007

A FAITH-FULL RESPONSE to GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE - Evening Lectures & Workshop, Co-sponsored with UM Center for Ethics & Lutheran Campus Ministries

MARY KAY REINEMANN - Nonviolent Communication Training Workshop

GREG MORTENSON - Reading from Three Cups of Tea, with Fact & Fiction Books
REV JIM WALLIS: "God’s Politics: Practicing A Faith that Does Justice"
PUTTING FEET ON YOUR FAITH - Sojourners’ Prophetic Advocacy Workshop
GLEN MOYERS WITH STEVE ROGERS - The Good News about Hell Workshop

2006
DAVID JAMES DUNCAN - Reading from God Laughs & Plays, Co- sponsored with Fact & Fiction Books

2005
DR. MARCUS BORG: "Which Jesus? Telling the Story of Jesus for Our Time"


2013 OFFERINGS INCLUDE:

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Crowd for David James Duncan   God Laughs & Plays   photo by Harold Braun   

    


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