Lumen Magazine_Winter 2020

St.Thomas Lumen WINTER 2020

Published by the University of St. Thomas Center for Catholic Studies 55S

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Catholic Studies Communications Jessica Zittlow Aleman ’13 CSMA Associate Director, Center for Catholic Studies Editor Brant Skogrand ’04 MBC, APR, CPPM Designer Carol Garner Photographers Mark Brown Liam James Doyle

The Grace of Encounter . ....................... 3 Cover Story – Invite Them In: Family as Mission .................................... 4 Catholic Studies News: Sitzmann and Bernardi .......................... 8 What We’re Reading and Watching ......................................... 12 St. Newman and Online Learning ..................................... 14 Alumni Profile: To Love and Be Loved .......................... 18 CSMA Essay: Lift Up Your Head .................................. 20 LOGOS Journal: Dorothy Sayers’ Jesus .......................... 22 Murphy Institute: The Beauty That Saves ......................... 24 Latino Scholars 20th Anniversary and Alumni Notes ................................. 26

Contributors John F. Boyle David Deavel David Foote

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Kristen Grant ’18 CSMA Mackenzie Hunter ’21 Billy Junker Elizabeth M. Kelly ’08 CSMA Erika Kidd Michael Naughton Michelle Rash ‘16, ‘24 CSMA Father Martin Schlag Cassandra Schwetz ’17 Brant Skogrand Gerriet Suiter ’19 CSMA Joan Weiland ’20, ’22 CSMA

Kathryn Wehr Cover photo

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Melissa Hamilton ’09 and her husband Ryan with their kids. St. John Paul II quote from Homily of John Paul II, Perth, 30 November 1986.

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