LA Religious Ed Congress
The LA Religious Education Congress is expecting 40,000 participants this year to fill the LA convention center next weekend. 198 speakers at 246 workshops. Everyone from Ronald Rollheiser to Matthew Kelly. Carol McGee, our Called & Gifted team leader in Boise, told me recently of a local woman who, as a result of discerning a charism of writing, published her first book, and was invited to speak at this Congress. So the Institute made a little contribution.
The Congress is an event that conservative bloggers love to hate. I've never attended myself although I've had a half dozen people tell me that they were going to arrange for me to be invited to speak. So, far, it hasn't happened.
It would be great to hear from those of you who have actually attended a Congress. What did you think? Good, bad, mixed, overwhelming? Worth it? Why?
posted by Sherry W @ 6:13 AM
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I and my classmates stopped by the congress on our Southern tour in the novitiate. Good: Lots and lots of cheap books. Moreover, some of the smaller speakers were very interesting. Bad: The main speakers were depressingly bad. I attended part of a talk in which the speaker (who will remain nameless) was speaking of the general ressurection and how it will include dogs, cats, cows, etc...
I attended a "jazz Mass" in which their was no jazz, but rather a Mardi Gras theme, complete with people standing on their chairs to catch beads thrown into the audience. If Sherry would have seen it as a child she may have never become Catholic. :) Yeah, it was silly. Hope I didn't break the no liturgy-talk rule. God bless.
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