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WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
Next week, our students will engage with our 15th Diversity Day Conference in which they will have the opportunity to explore a range of topics that they may not encounter within our core curriculum. Fundamentally rooted in the call of the Gospel to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves (MT 22:36-40), the day presents an opportunity to stretch our students’ notions of the breadth of who our neighbors are.
From relatively light exposures like sampling diverse foods or learning a new cultural dance step, to more challenging exposures and conversations about race, sexuality, the holocaust, religious pluralism and the dignity of human life from conception until natural death, our students are presented with a menu of more than 100 workshop presentations, presented by current students, alumni, faculty and community representatives.
We are honored to have as our keynote, Sr. Helen Prejean CSJ, who will speak to her experiences of accompanying and ministering to death row inmates and her advocacy inside of the Catholic Church and out for the abolition of death sentences in the United States. In Sr. Prejean, we find an extraordinary example of a Woman with and for Others. The day will be closed out by Bobby LeFebre, the state of Colorado’s youngest and first poet laureate of color. I congratulate our presenters and organizers for helping us to present such a rich program once again.
Ultimately, a Jesuit education aims to foster habits of reflection and social analysis that will enable individuals to become advocates of social change for a more just world, and our 15th edition of Diversity Day promises to provide our students a powerful opportunity to do just that. We’re looking forward to it!
AMDG
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David Card '87 is Regis Jesuit's president. He writes for Inspire & Ignite once a month, usually for the first week, throughout the school year.
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David Card '87 is Regis Jesuit's president. He writes for Inspire & Ignite once a month, usually for the first week, throughout the school year.
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