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• Question and answer session with responses from Frida Berrigan and Anna Brown at the Daniel Berrigan Panel—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 29, 2019.
• Frida Berrigan speaking at the Daniel Berrigan Panel—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 29, 2019.
  Frida Berrigan is a New London-based activist and writer. She has written on climate change, sustainability, gun control, and non-violent activism for The Nation and TomsDispatch, and she writes the Little Insurrections blog for WagingNonViolence.org. She is the author of It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood.
• Eric Martin speaking at the Daniel Berrigan Panel—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 29, 2019.
  Eric Martin is co-editor of The Berrigan Letters: Personal Correspondence Between Daniel and Philip Berrigan and a doctoral candidate in theology at Fordham University, where he is working on a theological biography of Dan Berrigan before the Catonsville action using his unpublished letters. He has worked with the Catholic Worker and the anti-white supremacy movement in Charlottesville.
• Anna Brown speaking at the Daniel Berrigan Panel—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 29, 2019.
  Anna J. Brown is Chair of the political science department and Director of the social justice program at Saint Peter's University. She co-founded the University's Center for Undocumented Students. Along with James L. Marsh, she co-edited and contributed to the book, Faith, Resistance, and the Future: Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought. She is a member of the Kairos peace community, which was co-founded by Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and has participated in numerous acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.
• Ched Myers speaking at the Daniel Berrigan Panel—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 29, 2019.
  Ched Myers is an activist theologian who has worked in social change movements for more than 40 years. His books include: Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus; Who Will Roll Away the Stone? Discipleship Queries for First World Christians; The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics; Ambassadors of Reconciliation: A N.T. Theology and Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking (with Elaine Enns); Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice (with Matthew Colwell); and most recently Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice. He and his partner Elaine Enns, a restorative justice practitioner, live in southern California, where they co-direct Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries (www.bcm-net.org) and focus on building capacity among young faith and justice leaders.
• "The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 28, 2019, by Robert Ellsberg.
  Robert Ellsberg is the Publisher of Orbis Books and the author, most recently, of A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives. His other award-winning books include Blessed Among Us: Saintly Lives for Every Day, All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, and The Saints’ Guide to Happiness. He served as managing editor of The Catholic Worker for two years during the last years of Dorothy Day, and he has dedicated himself to editing her work and promoting her mission. He has edited Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, and All the Way to Heaven: Selected Letters of Dorothy Day. In addition he has edited anthologies of Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Flannery O’Connor, Charles de Foucauld, and Pope Francis. For the past four years he has written a daily entry on saints for Give Us This Day.
• "Madness and Meaning: Thomas Merton and the Sixties"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 27, 2019, by Joseph Quinn Raab.
  Joseph Quinn Raab is professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Siena Heights University. He received a Ph. D. in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College, at the University of Toronto (2000). He is co-editor of The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns. Thomas Merton produced his most poignant social critiques in the nineteen sixties. With Foucault’s Madness and Civilization in 1961 and Hannah Arendt’s Eichman in Jerusalem in 1963, the problem of what madness means was in the public discourse.     This paper explores the problem of “madness” in the final years of Merton’s life and considers their continued relevance in our own mad world.
• “From the Inner Frontier to the Last Frontier: Thomas Merton’s 1968 Alaska Journey"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 27, 2019, by Kathleen Tarr.
  Kathleen Tarr is the author of We Are All Poets Here (2018). She earned her MFA at the University of Pittsburgh and serves on the board of the Alaska Humanities Forum. In 1968, Merton spent 17 days in the land of tundra, glaciers, rain forests, and sacred and majestic mountains—Alaska. An intimate interpretation will be offered about Merton’s short, yet profound, sojourn north. New spiritual insights and physical details will deepen our understanding of this mostly overlooked aspect of Merton’s biography.
• "Direct Transmission of Faith"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 28, 2019, by Rose Marie Berger.
  An advocacy journalist who reports on the intersection of faith, politics, and culture, Rose Marie Berger is a senior associate editor and poetry editor for Sojourners magazine. She has traveled in several conflict zones to report on peacemaking and currently is active in the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International, which formed in 2016 following a landmark April meeting in Rome on Catholics and nonviolence. Her writing has appeared in Sojourners, Religion News Service, U.S. Catholic, Huffington Post, The Merton Seasonal, as well as in the collections Buffalo Shout, Salmon Cry, Watershed Discipleship, Unsettling the Word, and Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence. She has most recently published her first poetry collection, Bending the Arch. A native of the West Coast, Rose was raised in the American River watershed, in traditional Miwok territory in California. For more than 30 years (and six presidential administrations), Rose has lived in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the Anacostia watershed, in traditional Piscataway territory.
• "Thomas Merton's MY ARGUMENT WITH THE GESTAPO:" ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 27, 2019, by Ron Hansen.
  Ron Hansen is the author of screenplays, two collections of stories, a book of essays, and nine novels, the most recent being The Kid, which is based on the life of the outlaw William H. Bonney. Ron graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and Stanford University where he was a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellow. His novel Atticus was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. Mariette in Ecstasy won the Gold Medal in Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Ron’s writing has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University and a permanent deacon for the Diocese of San Jose.