Myser Lecture
Save the date! The next Myser Award and Lecture is scheduled for Thursday, April 22, 2021. Details and registration information will be posted here when set.
Past Myser Lecture Featured Speakers
Year | Featured Speaker | Lecture Title |
2018 | M. Shawn Copeland | "Compassion and the Suffering God" |
2017 | Kathleen Norris | "Spiritual Practice and Social Justice" |
2016 | Kristin Shrader-Frechette | "Working for Environmental Justice: What Love Looks Like in Public" |
2015 | Elizabeth Johnson | "Is God's Charity Broad Enough for Bears?" |
2014 | Joan Chittister | "Going Forward with Hope and Courage: The Role of the Public Thinker in Church and Society" |
2013 | Cathleen Kaveny | "Prophecy, Civility, and Truth" |
2012 | Carolyn Woo | "Common Good, Uncommon Excellence" |
2011 | Jill Ker Conway | "Physical and Spiritual Geography: The Inner Climate of the Mind" |
2010 | Therese Shroeder-Sheker | "Music, Spirituality, and Palliative Medicine: Contemplative Musicianship in the Care of Dying" |
2009 | Bryan Hehir | "Catholic Identity: The Roots, the Relevance, and the Realization of the Idea" |
2008 | Elizabeth Johnson | "Seeking the Living God: Nourishing Faith and the Living Traditions" |
2007 | Lisa Cahill | "Bioethics and Seeking the Common Good" |