JCWR Third National Convocation
March 2019
Participants were invited to examine the roots of systemic racism and explore the difficult work of purging ourselves, our communities, and our country of the sin of racism and its destructive effects.
JCWR Second National Convocation
March 2017
Which Roots Will We Water? Systemic Change and JPIC Ministry
Agenda Breakout Sessions Speaker
JCWR First National Convocation
November 2014
Entering the Transforming Future: JPIC Ministry in the Coming Age of Religious Life
Agenda Transformation Talks Speaker
2022 JCWR Virtual Series: Advancing Justice Building Relationships for the Future began on January 26th, 2022. Here is the link to the 3 recorded conversations of the series.
Session One – Effective Collaboration Within the Congregation.
Session Two – Effective Collaboration Beyond Congregational Boundaries
Session Three – Effective Collaboration Imagining the Future of Justice Ministry
Watch for more discussion around these topics and the upcoming 2023 Justice Convocation next Spring, hopefully to be held in person.
April 24-26, 2023
Hotel Marriott Airport
St. Louis, Missouri
In April 2023 JCWR hosted the 5th gathering of Justice Promoters. “Transformative Justice: Embracing and Acting from an ever-emerging consciousness.” The speakers are three leaders in their fields.
Sharon Zayac is a Dominican Sister of Springfield, Illinois. She is co-founder of Jubilee Farm, her congregation’s 164-acre center for ecology and spirituality, west of Springfield, IL. Her book Earth Spirituality: In the Catholic and Dominican Traditions, published in 2003, was the first in the series Dominican Women on Earth. She is included in the book Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology by Sarah McFarland Taylor and has recently co-authored a book with Rev. Richard Chiola that is awaiting publication, Cosmology and Christ: Christology and Cosmic Evolution.
Toni Nash a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Los Angeles Province since 1963. She collaborated in designing and presenting a 3-part webinar series for her Province on Climate Justice, Interlocking Systems of Oppression, and Laudato Si, accompanied by a year of weekly follow-up articles (2020-2021). Since 2021, she has been a member of USCCB Sub-Committee on Native American Affairs: Religious Accompaniment and on the Accountability and Healing Project.
Christina Leano the Associate Director for Laudato Si’ Movement, a Meditation Teacher, and Retreat Leader. She has been exploring the intersection of spirituality and social justice for the past 20 years. Christina’s passion is to support people’s spiritual transformation through contemplative practices and engagement in social and ecological justice.