Schedule: Monday, Feb. 10; 7-9 p.m.

Tuition: $10 before Feb. 3, $15 after

Enrollment: 15 min./35 max.

In this conversation, we will explore diverse perspectives on institutional and systemic understandings and theologies of human sexuality with a particular focus on how they impact LGBTQ persons.

Rev. Ann Helmke serves as the first Faith-Based Community Liaison for the City of San Antonio. She is a co-founder of the San Antonio peaceCENTER, an ordained Lutheran minister, and former Director of Spiritual Services at Haven for Hope. She has been actively serving in the San Antonio community for almost 30 years networking among many faiths with an emphasis on civic engagement.

Father John Markey, OP, is an Associate Professor of Theology and the Director of the Ph.D. program in Contemporary Spirituality at Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1984, then earned an M.A. in Theology there two years later. He entered the Dominican Order in 1987 and was ordained a priest in 1993. He received his M. Div. from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, in 1997. He is a member of the Order of Preachers – also known as the Dominicans. He has written several books, including, Creating Communion: The Theology of the Constitutions of the Church (2003) and Moses in Pharaoh’s House: A Liberation Spirituality for North America (2014). He is currently co-editing a book of essays with Ronald Rolheiser, entitled Mysticism in Contemporary Life: Essays in Honor of Bernhard McGinn (Herder & Herder).

Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Beth-El, San Antonio, retired in 2002 after 26 years as Senior Rabbi. He is the author of Making the Timeless Timely: Thoughts and Reflections of a Contemporary Reform Rabbi, as well as Boundaries, Not Barriers: Some Uniquely Jewish Perspectives on Life.

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