--Past Event--
Presentation by Bob McClory
Saturday, April 18, 2009
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
9:00 am – 9:30 am - Registration & Fellowship
View/Print brochure and registration
Topics:
The Community Jesus Founded
The Emergence of the Laity
The Church as a Democracy
Location: Community of Hope UCC / Advent Lutheran Church
7118 Old Sauk Rd., Madison, Wisconsin
(click here for map or
see below for written directions)
Cost: $10
Biography
Bob McClory... is an associate professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He has taught at the Medill School of Journalism on a full-time or part-time basis since 1983. Though mainly as a Magazine Writing teacher, he has also taught freshman and sophomore writing classes, has been chief judge of numberless journalism competitions, and was for many years a coordinator of summer programs on religion and media for graduate students. He was a recipient in 1999 of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Northwestern University Alumni Association, and was entered in the Medill Hall of Excellence in 2008.
McClory, a 1971 graduate of Medill, began his journalism career with the Chicago Defender as reporter, feature writer and city editor. He has since been a staff writer for the Chicago Reader and the National Catholic Reporter and a contributor to many publications including Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and US Catholic Magazine.
He is the author of seven books, including “Racism in America,” “The Man Who Beat Clout City,” “Turning Point: The Inside Story of the Papal Birth Control Commission,” “Faithful Dissenters,”and “As It Was in the Beginning: The Coming Democratization of the Catholic Church,”(winner of first place in the history category of the 2007 awards by the Catholic Press Association). He is co-author of the play “Haunted by God: The Life of Dorothy Day.”
Before entering journalism, McClory was a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, serving at several parishes and as a lecturer at Loyola University. He is a co-founder and former board member of the Call to Action organization. His work has won awards from a variety of journalism associations including Women in Communications, the Chicago Headline Club, Associated Church Press, the Catholic Press Association, and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Directions (or click here for map)
• Directions from the east & north using I-90 and exiting on Hwy 12-18 west
Exit right onto S. Gammon Rd, 1 mi
Name changes to N Gammon Rd 0.6 mi Turn left onto Old Sauk Rd
• Directions from north or west using Hwys 12 or 14
At exit 253, take ramp right and follow signs for Old Sauk Rd 0.3 mi
Turn left onto Old Sauk Rd
• Directions from the north & west using Hwy 12 & 18 east
At exit 255, take ramp right and
follow signs for Gammon Rd 0.2 mi
Turn right onto Gammon Rd 1.6 mi Turn left onto Old Sauk Rd 0.2 mi
Links
• Review of latest book
• Stories by McClory in the National Catholic Reporter
• Posts by McClory in the U.S. Catholic
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