When European immigrants originally settled in Milwaukee, they built churches with soaring towers that you can still see throughout the city. But today, our community has more than 1,000 houses of worship of all denominations. You can find the ornate Basilica of St. Josaphat, the first African-American church in Wisconsin: St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, the oldest synagogue in Milwaukee: Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun, and the Islamic Society of Milwaukee all no more than a 20 minute drive from downtown. Whether you’re at a cultural festival or driving through our residential neighborhoods, you’ll start to notice that deeply rooted religious traditions remain a part of who we are as a city today.
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March 2 – “Political Minds: Addressing the Challenges of a Divided Nation,” Philip Chard will discuss conspiracy theories, insurrection, hate speech, misinformation, and white supremacists, and what can we do to bridge this interpersonal chasm, find common ground, heal divisions and not drive ourselves crazy in the process?”
March 9 – “Nurturing Hope from Within: Wisdom Teachings and Spiritual Practices,” the Rev. Karen Hagen, pastor of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church in Milwaukee’s Bay View community will join us for a sampling of spiritual practices from around the world. A time to reflect and let the light of hope shine into our everyday living.
March 16 – “Communities of Color: Finding Hope through Pursuing Justice” Eloisa Gomez, Minister Byron Johnson, and Jessica Boling will discuss some of the challenges that our diverse communities face in greater Milwaukee and how they have channeled their justice work around hope and community.
March 23 – “Moving forward from our own spiritual casteisms with genuine hope and connection,” Pardeep Singh Kaleka and Rhonda Hill, Inspired by the book “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson, will have an open and honest conversation on the role that cultural dynamics have played in their own personal lives and continue to play in America.
March 30 – “Moving Forward Together with Hope after Incarceration,” Dr. Terri Strodthoff, Jeanne Geraci, and John Serrano join us to talk about the role of hope for those who have been through and may be going through the legal system.
"Onward With Hope: Inspiring Courage to Create the World We Want."
The Peace and International Issues Committee of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee announces the virtual return of its ever popular annual program: Tuesdays-in-March. The lectures take place each Tuesday at noon in the month of March. Each week features one or more speakers addressing the relevant topics cafefully discerned by the PIIC Committee members. The theme this year is a hopeful one, looking at ways to understand our social and spiritual caste system, how to reconnect a divided nation, finding hope in spiritual practices, knowing what the pursuit of justice means to communities of color, and acknowledging the needs of those returning to their communites after incarceration.
Speakers this year include, Philip Chard, psychotherapist, award-winning author, and newspaper columnist, Rev. Karen Hagen, Pastor of Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church, Eloisa Gomez, Chair of Comité por el Voto Latino/Latinx Voter Outreach, Minister Byron Johnson, Associate Minister of Progressive Baptist Church, Jessica Boling, founding member of ElevAsian, Pardeep Singh Kaleka, Executive Director of Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee and Zeidler Group, Rhonda Hill, founder of Race and Faith, Jeanne Geraci, Executive Director of the Benedict Center, Terri Strodthoff, Executive Director of the Alma Center, and John Serrano Floyd, Co-facilitator at the Alma Center.
We hope you can join us this year for one or more of these lectures. Once you register, a receipt will emailed, and an event link will also be emailed before the program dates.
Cost for the virtual program:
Series of 5 for $25.00, or $10.00 per individual lecture
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