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The Collegeville Institute is currently hiring for academic year 2009/10 student employment positions. The academic year job description is posted here for your convenience. If interested in the position, please complete the posted application and return to the Collegeville Institute, Box 2000, Collegeville, MN 56321 or email to: staff@collegevilleinstitute.org.
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Praying With Imagination: A Retreat With The Saint John's Bible, a visio divina retreat offered through the Conversatio Lifelong Learning Program, will be July 19-25. Kathleen Cahalan will serve as prayer leader, with Peggy Thompson and Judith Lang Main as artistic leaders. For more information visit: http://www.csbsju.edu/sot/specialprograms/imagination.htm. Register online now!
Walter Cardinal Kasper Visits Institute
Walter Cardinal Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, delivered the Godfrey Diekmann, OSB, Lecture and received the Pax Christi Award from Saint John's Abbey and University on March 23. A receptive audience turned out for the event which was held in the Abbey Church. Don Ottenhoff, Executive Director of the Collegeville Institute, served as emcee for the program.
Cardinal Kasper spoke on theology and faith-and the frequent lack of faith-during his address. The Cardinal also spoke about the intimate relationship between God and freedom. He stated, "Thinking of God as absolute freedom means understanding God as a liberating God and the world as a place of freedom."
"Following the trauma of the wars of religion, theology underwent a process of purification through a process of self-criticism and constructive confrontation with 
the modern Enlightenment," he said. "Today all Christian churches profess freedom of religion, avoidance of violence, tolerance and respect toward other religions; while maintaining their own identity, they seek not conflict but dialogue."
While on campus, Cardinal Kasper, along with his Secretary, Fr. Oliver Lahl, toured the Collegeville Institute. They spoke with Don Ottenhoff, Founder and President Fr. Kilian McDonnell, and Board Chair Gary Reierson.
Text archive of Cardinal Kasper's lecture
Video Archive of the Pax Christi Award Presentation and Cardinal Kasper's Lecture
Krista Tippett's interview with Parker Palmer - Repossessing Virtue: Parker Palmer on Economic Crisis, Morality, and Meaning on December 11, 2008
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The human and spiritual aspects of economic downturn were explored with a wise public intellectual of our time, the Quaker author and educator Parker Palmer. He works with people from all walks of life at the intersection of spiritual, professional, and social change, and stresses the need to acknowledge the inner life of human beings as a source of reality and power.
HMML featured on "Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett"
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) (at St. John's University) was featured on American Public Media's weekly radio program, "Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett" on Sunday, January 18th. The program aired on all Minnesota Public Radio affiliates KNSR (88.9 FM) in Collegeville and KNOW (91.1 FM) in St. Paul/Minneapolis. For more information:
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/stations/index.shtml.
http://www.hmml.org/happenings06/happenings.htm
Krista Tippett's program, Speaking of Faith, was conceived from her experience while here at the Institute.