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Undergraduate Reflection: What Did You Say to the Father?
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. There we were, shoulder to shoulder, squeezed into a small wooden pew in the Eucharistic adoration chapel. I spent a moment in prayer with Marely and Mariela, two Mexican-American girls I had been teaching the past couple months. Together we made the Sign of…
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‘On Eagle’s Wings’ Composer to Retire
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. World-renowned composer Father Michael Joncas ’75, artist-in-residence at St. Thomas, is retiring from full-time ministry effective Jan. 1, 2022. As he contemplated his upcoming retirement from active ministry, many fond memories arose. There was the time in 2003-04 when Joncas contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome, a… -
CSMA Master's Essay: American Religious Liberty and Catholic Perspectives
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. Throughout my time in the St. Thomas Law and Catholic Studies joint degree program, I became fascinated with issues at the intersection of faith and the law. I became especially aware of a cultural trend of growing disdain for Americans who hold to traditional… -
LOGOS Journal: Beauty, Order and the Moral Imagination
Faith and MissionThis story is featured in the fall/winter 2021 issue of Lumen. This quarter’s issue of LOGOS features a piece from Jared Zimmerer, widely known for his work with Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire. In this article, Zimmerer explores the wisdom of a 20th-century intellectual giant, Russell Kirk, on subjects of “Beauty, Order and the Moral… -
Truth Telling and Indian Boarding Schools
St. Thomas 2025 - Foster Belonging and Dismantle RacismThe remains of 215 First Nation children were found just months ago in unmarked graves at the Catholic-run Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The discovery is evidence of the trauma and suffering perpetrated there, said Jacob Jurss, PhD, St. Thomas adjunct history professor and a Native American history scholar. Jurss spoke as part of… -
More Candidates on the Ballot: CAS Gets Women Ready to Run
On the 2021 ballot, male candidates outnumbered their female counterparts 2-to-1 in the Minneapolis mayoral race and 6-to-1 in the race to lead the city of St. Paul. Two men won. This lopsided field for the top offices in Minnesota’s two largest cities is less an exception and more a rule. A St. Thomas partnership… -
Name and Groundbreaking Date Set for St. Thomas’ STEAM Complex
St. Thomas 2025The groundbreaking date for St. Thomas’ newest and largest academic building is officially set – and visitors will see a familiar name with a deep university legacy when the first-of-its-kind facility opens in 2024. On Wednesday night, President Julie Sullivan announced the university’s long-planned STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math) complex will be named… -
In the News: Biblical scholar Penchansky pens a new book on the Qur'an
In the NewsTheology professor Dr. David Penchansky is featured in an article by the MyVillager newspaper for his newest book titled Solomon and the Ant: the Qur'an in Conversation with the Bible. From the article: Penchansky, who was involved in the creation of the Islamic Christian Center at St. Thomas, was fascinated by the Muslim claim that anyone… -
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Funds St. Thomas’ Inaugural Student Interfaith Fellowships
St. Thomas 2025 - Foster Belonging and Dismantle RacismDiverse faith perspectives inform the way people live, work and play together. This reality inspired St. Thomas’ inaugural Interfaith Fellows Program, which was recently awarded a prestigious national grant through the Interfaith Leadership and Religious Literacy Program of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Launching in fall 2021, the program is designed to educate and prepare… -
Serving Survivors Left in a Virus’s Wake
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, St. Thomas biology students took a semester-long deep dive into a different virus.