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May 18 - Felon Disenfranchisement - Chris Uggen and Ochen Kaylan
Did you know that the United States is the only democracy in the world that denies former prisoners the right to vote? This week we'll be joined by two experts on felon disenfranchisement: one is an author/professor from the University of MN who teaches about these issues in a classroom setting. The other is a writer/producer who teaches about these issues in radio documentaries and theater performance. Professor Chris Uggen is Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He studies crime, law, and deviance - especially how former prisoners manage to put their lives back together. With Professor Uggen, we'll also have award-winning radio documentary producer Ochen Kaylan. Kaylan created the critically-acclaimed one-man show on felon disenfranchisement titled “I Voted for Gummi Bears” - an entertaining, yet highly informative piece of theater that will be featured in the new performance series “SPIRIT IN THE HOUSE” opening later this month. We'll visit with Professor Uggen and Ochen Kaylan to talk about the complicated issue of prisoner voting rights.
Chris Uggen on felon disenfranchisement
Spirit in the House
I Voted for Gummi Bears
image courtesy of chrisuggen.blogspot.com
image courtesy of ochen kaylan
May 11 - Faith and Journalism - Steven Scott
Steve Scott was formerly the religion editor and local news reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He's also a past visiting scholar in religion journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He currently covers religion, faith and ethics for the new web news community MinnPost.com. Considered an expert on the many ways that faith and political policy intersect, Scott is a frequent panel moderator and talk show guest.
Steve Scott profile
info on Minn Post.com
Bethel University conference on journalism and faith
image courtesy of www.minnpost.com
May 4 - Welcoming Returning Veterans - Army Chaplain Vincent Hokkanen
No matter how any of us may view the political nature of war, we are all certainly called upon to offer support to our nation's veterans and their loved ones. We need concrete ways to give tangible help. What can each of us do to provide comfort, hospitality, and assistance to military families in need? How can we talk across ideological differences to find common values and hopes? This Sunday Army Chaplain Vincent Hokkanen will stop by to visit with us. Chaplain Hokkanen will talk about how deployment overseas impacts families here at home - and what each of us could be doing to offer peace and reconciliation.
Beyond the Yellow Ribbon
photo courtesy of Martin Greeson, US Army
April 27 - Aging & Spirituality - Kay Provine
Why is it that much of our culture is uncomfortable talking about aging? Here's a demographic that we will all belong to sooner or later – if we're lucky. Why are we afraid to talk about the closing chapters of our lives? Isn't it possible for our sense of our own mortality to actually enrich our spiritual vitality? What are the fourteen spiritual tasks we need to accomplish as we move toward what comes next?
Kay Provine is an ordained Episcopal priest who works as the director of spiritual life at Episcopal Homes, a continuing care community in the heart of the city. On May 6th, she'll lead a workshop on Aging & Spirituality at United Theologicial Seminary. This week, she'll join us to talk about how we might most fully enrich these last chapters of our lives – and the lives of those we love.
Episcopal Homes
Aging & Spirituality workshop information
photo courtesy of Julie Rigsby
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