Year 2002
| The speakers at St. Joan of Arc are often challenging and thought provoking. The website has received numerous requests for text versions of Sunday presentations. Despite the fact that we offer audio versions on our highlights page, sometimes it is helpful to read and re-read passages of the presentation. Not all speakers work from a text version and some are just outlines. However, we offer here the presentations we have received for your perusal. |
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| ... Omar Jamal, "Somali Immigrants”- Unavailable | |
| Sunday, December 22nd 2002 | ... Trent Lott steps down after remarks, Bush and military get smallpox vaccine... Jane Leyden Cavanaugh speaks on "Yes" |
| Sunday, December 15th 2002 | ... SJA income down/spending cuts, Cardinal Law resigns and ... Mark Scannell speaks on "Cry Out" |
| Sunday, December 8th 2002 | ... MN announces $4.6 billion deficit, Bush removes economic team, Al Quaida claims Kenyan bombing of Israelis... and ... Fr. George Wertin speaks on "Get Ready" |
| ... Pat Walsh, "Wake Up”- Unavailable | |
| Sunday, November 24th 2002 | ... UN Inspectors ReEnter Iraq, Homeland Security Bill passes, Oil Spill off of Spain... and ... Fintan Moore speaks on "Completing the Circle - The Discipleship of All People" |
| Sunday, November 17th 2002 | ... 12 die in Hebron, Iraq accepts UN Resolution, Bin Laden releases tape... and ... Fr. George Wertin speaks on "Non-Violence: Options in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Beyond" |
| Sunday, November 10th 2002 | ... Republicans win big in elections, UN approves Iraq resolution... and ... Jim Farrell speaks on "The Moral Ecology of Everyday Life" |
| ... Peter Russell, "From Science to God”- Unavailable | |
| ... Michael Morwood, "God Is Nearer Than We Think or Imagine”- Unavailable | |
| Sunday, October 20th 2002 | ... Senator Wellstone to die in plane crash this week, nuclear overtures in North Korea... and ... Fr. George Wertin, Julie and Michael Madden speak on "Our Journey to the Mideast" |
| Sunday, October 13th 2002 | ... Maddens/Wertin return safely from the Middle East, the Twins lose in the American League Series... and ... Mindy Ahler-Olmstead speaks on "Fair Trade" |
| ... Mel Duncan, "Entering the Heart of My Enemy.”- Unavailable | |
| ... Joan Riebel, "It’s About The Messages.”- Unavailable | |
| Sunday, September 22nd 2002 | ... Maddens/Wertin announce trip to Middle East, Iraq agrees to inspections and US says "not good enough"... and ... Julie Madden speaks on "Hope" |
| Sunday, September 15th 2002 | ... A week of remembering 9/11 as all other news takes a back seat... and ... Gene Morrill speaks on "The Dignity of Work" |
| Sunday, September 8th 2002 | ... School years starts with new budget cuts and levy votes on the horizon... and ... Fr. George Wertin speaks on "The Christian Life as a Balancing Act" |
| Sunday, September 1st 2002 | ... Bush seems to lack support in Iraq war, University football player shot in Mpls., Major League Baseball averts a "union" strike, ... and ... Senator Mark Dayton speaks on "If We’re So Right, Why Are There So Few of Us Left?" |
| Sunday, August 25th 2002 | ... Rioting in the Jordan Neighborhood of Mpls., Debate on an attack on Iraq continues, ... and ... Our Delegates to TNII speak on "Summer Delegations to TNII" |
| ... Fr. Jim Cassidy, "Embracing Loss: Pathways to Peace.”- Unavailable | |
| ... Kathy Kelly, "A Personal View of Iraq.”- Unavailable | |
| Sunday, August 4th 2002 | ... Pilot Whales beach themselves, gasoline costs $1.50 a gallon, the West Nile Virus spreads, ... and ... Lisa Venable speaks on "Jerusalem Journey: Walking in Faith" |
| Sunday, July 28th 2002 | ... the stock market goes up and down, Team Oz finishes it's last Heartland AIDSRide, the Pope visits the Americas... and ... Miriam Reinbold speaks on "The Politics of Aging" |
| Sunday, July 21st 2002 | ... the stock market takes big plunge, "Voices of the Faithful" meet to deal with Church Crisis, ChevronTexaco settles with Nigerian townspeople... and ... Tom Smith-Myott speaks on "The Church Crisis:WWJD" |
| Sunday, July 14th 2002 | ... WorldCom fails in corporate scandal, President Bush visits Minnesota, Twins in 1st place at AllStar break... and ... Fr. George Wertin speaks on "A New Theology for a New Age" |
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