Public talk by Thomas Michel, S.J.

Thomas Michel, S.J., Georgetown University

12:00 AM

Student Housing Power Trip: 18th Annual Thunder and Lightning Pow Wow

LMU Student Housing

12:00 PM

Voices of the Way: Three Performance Works inspired by writings of Brecht, Lao Tse, Padmasambhava and Gregory I.

2008 Festival of Sacred Music

Sacred Heart Chapel

8:00 PM

Public talk by Peter Phan

Dr. Peter Phan, Georgetown University

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Asian Pacific Student Services Power Trip: Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo

Asian Pacific Student Services

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Eastern Orthodox Power Trip: Experience the Divine Liturgy in the Historic Byzantine-Latino Quarter

LMU Ministry Team

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Power Trip: Maronites and the Lebanese culture of St. Maron

Rev. Abdallah Zaidan

9:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Theme of the day: eucharist: living/god/together/us

LMU Community

12:00 AM

Sweet are the Uses of Diversity

Wole Soyinka, President’s Marymount Institute Professor in Residence, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

9:00 AM

Theme of the day: religion.life.LA.

LMU Community

12:00 AM

Watching TV

Moderator: Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Barbara Hall, creator of Joan of Arcadia
Marley Klaus, Journalist and Producer of 60 Minutes
Roger Wolfson, Writer for Saving Grace

10:00 AM

Religious Education in Los Angeles

Moderator: Ernest Rose, Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Loyola Marymount University
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier, Associate Professor of Religious Education, Claremont School of Theology
Michael Lee, S.J. is Assistant Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Edmundo Litton, Chair of the Department of Specialized Programs in Urban Education, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

2:00 PM

Religion in Black Los Angeles

Joseph O. Jewell, Chair of African American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray, former pastor, First African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bishop Gordon Bennett, SJ, retired Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica and member of the Jesuit Community at LMU
LMU Voices of Joy Gospel Choir , Victor Bell and Halel Gospel Choir

Sacred Heart Chapel

6:00 PM

Theme of the day: identities. the multiple faces of convivencia

LMU Community

12:00 AM

Panel on Religion and Sexual Ethics

Moderator Jonathan Rothchild, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Swami Atmavidyananda, Vedanta Society of Southern California
Venerable Bhante Chao Chu, Abbott, Rosemead Buddhist Monastery
Rev. Dr. Phil Hilliard, Senior Pastor, Bethany Church of Alhambra.

University Hall 1000

9:00 AM

Panel Session: What’s a Nice Jewish Person Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

Moderator: Rabbi Michael Barclay
Rabbi Ed Feinstein, Valley Beth Shalom
Rabbi Aaron Katz, Beth Shalom of Whittier
Rabbi Haim Ovadia, Kahal Joseph Congregation
Dr. Saba Soomekh, Visiting Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

10:00 AM

Theme of the day: is this land still made for you and me?

LMU Community

12:00 AM

The Legacy of the Chumash

Moderator: Dorian Llywelyn, S.J., Loyola Marymount University
Grandmother Eneke-Alish , wife of Chumash Medicine Man Grandfather Semu

Hilton 300

9:00 AM

Constructing Identity, Confronting Empire: From Patmos to the Barrio

Moderator: Stephen Shepherd, Associate Professor of English, Loyola Marymount University
David Sanchez, New Testament scholar, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Deena Gonzalez, Chair, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

10:00 AM

Theme of the day: religion + life = politics

LMU Community

12:00 AM

Religious Minorities

Moderator: Robin Wang, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Asian and Pacific Studies Program, Loyola Marymount University
Ven. Kusala Bhikshu, Monk ordained in the Zen Buddhist tradition of Vietnam
Wafik Nasry, S.J., Department of Classics and Archaeology and the Department of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Varun Soni, Dean of Religious Life, University of Southern California

University Hall 1000

9:00 AM

Interfaith Prayer Service

Robert B. Lawton, S.J., President, Loyola Marymount University

Sacred Heart Chapel

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Let’s Talk Faith, Politics and Social Justice

Moderator: John Coleman, SJ, Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values
Edina Lekovic, Communications Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Rebecca Sager, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Executive Director, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice
Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith, Director, Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Arch Diocese of Los Angeles
Steven Windmueller, Dean, Los Angeles Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

University Hall 1000

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Reception

Invited Guests

Dunning Courtyard outside Murphy Recital Hall

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Play: Bounty of Lace

Moderator: Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
Susan Merson, Playwright
Debra Linesch, Director, Department of Marital and Family Therapy, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. Laila al-Marayati
Sr. Judith Royer CSJ, Professor of Theratre Arts and Dance, Loyola Marymount University

Murphy Recital Hall

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Theme of the day: students.talk.convivencia.

LMU Community

12:00 AM

Panel Session: Sexual Orientation and Religion

Dino Entac, Director of Resident Ministry, Loyola Marymount University
Maria Alderete, Assistant Director of the Center for Service and Action, Loyola Marymount University
Henry Ward, Director of Intercultural Affairs, Loyola Marymount University

University Hall 1000

10:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Lunch and Conversation: Food for Thought: Religious Minorities at LMU

Dino Entac, Director of Resident Ministry
Denise Folga, Director of the Office for International Students and Scholars

McIntosh Center (University Hall 3999)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Artists Speak

Sr. Judith Royer CSJ
Judith Scalin
Laurel Ollstein

Murphy Recital Hall

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

A.R.T.S. Society Celebrates Artists and Arts

John Chapman A.R.T.S. Society student officers
James Eastman, A.R.T.S. Society student officers
Cecilia González-Andrieu, Loyola Marymount University

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Office of Black Student Services Power Trip: a Worship Experience with West Angeles Church of God in Christ

Office of Black Student Services

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Power Trip: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - the Model Church

Campus Ministry
Resident Ministry

11:30 AM - 2:30 PM