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Room in Your Heart for the Unimaginable: Our Journey into the Divine

In honor of its 70th anniversary, LCWR is offering is a virtual series of live interviews throughout 2026 with contemporary thinkers and writers on spirituality. Through these conversations, participants will engage with emerging wisdom that speaks to the challenges and possibilities of living from a contemplative stance today.

Each session will offer an opportunity for participants to reflect together on how they might grow more deeply into a contemplative consciousness, embody the Divine, and create a more just and connected world.

The sessions will provide participants with an opportunity to hear a live interview with the invited guest, spend some time in small groups conversing about the input, listen to two LCWR members reflect on what they received from the session, and hear concluding remarks by the guest. While the live sessions are for LCWR members, the sessions will be recorded and additional Zoom sessions will be offered for any woman or man religious who wishes to participate. 

The following is the schedule of the live interviews for LCWR members, the writers, and the LCWR reflectors. Below the schedule is a list of the Zoom sessions open to all women and men religious as scheduled thus far.

Dates, Speakers, Responders

James Finley
January 16, 2026, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET
Responders: Carol Anne Smith, HM; Leslie Keener, CDP
Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ
February 20, 2026, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET
Responders: Kathleen Tuite, OP; Michele Bisbey, CDP
Margaret Wheatley
March 6, 2026, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET
Responders: Sandra Helton, SSND; Mary Paul Mcaughey, OP
Cecilia Gonzáles-Andrieu
May 22, 2026, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET
Responders: Carol Higgins, SNJM; Barbara Hagedorn, SC
Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, OP
June 5, 2026, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET  
Responders: Megan McElroy, OP; 
Dawn Tomaszewski, SP
A.E. Orobator, SJ
September 11, 2026,  2:00 – 3:15 PM ET
Responders: Anita Baird, DHM; Kathleen Popko, SP
Chioma Ahanihu, SLW
October 9, 2026, 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET 
Responders: Laura Bregar, OSU; Lovina Pammit, OSF
Registration for these seven sessions which are for LCWR members is available in the calendar section in the members' side of the LCWR website.

Follow-Up Sessions Open to All Women Religious

LCWR will be hosting Zoom sessions that are open to all religious following each of these seven sessions. Please click on the link to register. You will receive an email with the Zoom link that you can use the day of the session. At these sessions, we will watch the recording of the interview with the author as well as of the responders and then we will be placed in breakout sessions with other religious for a chance to share on what you heard. (The second session for each speaker will be a repeat of the first session. You are welcome to attend both, but it is not necessary to attend both.)

Room in Your Heart for the Unimaginable: Recording of James Finley

January 29: 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET – Session 1
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/iYEbblT_RK6-8cWCDVv_-g
February 4: 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET – Session 2
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/S07QMZWmR4y5ZZ-Hs9uycg
 

Room in Your Heart for the Unimaginable: Recording of Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ

February 27: 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET – Session 1
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q9GnALHDSQutVzrjsiZSlA
March 3: 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET – Session 2
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/erY5CYNvRue3cAUpH_rBhQ

 

Room in Your Heart for the Unimaginable: Recording of Margaret Wheatley

March 18: 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET – Session 1
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3TeDB0cXR0W49Z_kCFpY0A
March 26: 2:00 – 3:15 PM ET – Session 2
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XitrOQvGRWOCQXbpWud0yw
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