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May 24, 2024 – Many people believe that we are living in the most divided period of U.S. history. But the next meeting of the Dine and Discuss Book Club at Weber Retreat and Conference Center invites participants to explore how President Abraham Lincoln managed during his time of division and civil war. 

The book club will read and discuss Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America, by Steve Inskeep. The book offers an illuminating view of Lincoln’s great strategy of “agreeing to disagree” in a divided country – and lessons for our own time.

Dinner and discussion take place from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at Weber Retreat and Conference Center. Copies of the book are available beginning on Monday, June 3, 2024, at the Weber Center Shop and the Weber reception desk. 

The cost of $20 includes the book and dinner. Registration is required. Visit www.webercenter.org and click on “programs,” call 517-266-4000, or email webercenter@adriandominicans.org. 

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, Adrian, Michigan. Traveling east on Siena Heights Drive, pass the Adrian Rea Literacy Center and turn left just before the solar panel-covered carport. Follow the signs to Weber Center. For information, call the Weber Center at 517-266-4000.
 

May 6, 2024, Adrian, Michigan – Sisters Kathleen Deignan, CND, PhD, and Libby Osgood, CND, PhD, PEng, offer a contemplative reflection on the prayers, poems, and hymns of Jesuit priest and scientist Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ, and how the presenters wove these works into a Book of Hours for daily prayer. Teilhard de Chardin: Book of Hours is offered via livestream from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.

Through this reflective evening, Sisters Kathleen and Libby invite participants to cultivate the “cosmic sense” of faith awakened through the works of Teilhard de Chardin. There is no need to have read their book to enjoy this evening presentation.

Sister Kathleen, Professor Emerita of Religious and Theological Studies at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York, is a composer of sacred song and director of the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit. Sister Libby, Associate Professor of Sustainable Design Engineering at the University of Prince Edward Island, once worked on two NASA satellites as an aerospace engineer.

The cost of the event is $45. Registration is required and may be made online at www.webercenter.org (click on “Programs”), by phone, 517-266-4000, and by email webercenter@adriandominicans.org. Limited scholarships are available.

Their book, Teilhard de Chardin: A Book of Hours, is available at the Weber Center Shop.

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