Rooted in the prophetic encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, we will examine ways in which women continue to use the wisdom of their lived experience to tell their stories about the in-breaking Kin-dom of God. We will read excerpts of first-person accounts of feminist visions of a more just world, look at contemporary feminist theories and practices of justice and examine women’s contributions to movements of social change

Resource Person: Maureen H. O’Connell, PhD, is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Religion and Theology at La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA. She authored Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization (Orbis Books, 2009) and If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (The Liturgical Press, 2012).  She is a member of POWER (Philadelphians Organizing to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild), an interfaith coalition of more than 50 Congregations committed to making Philadelphia the city of “just love” through faith-based community organizing. Maureen also serves on the Boards of Cranaleith Spiritual Center, a ministry of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, and Rosemont College.