At the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' annual assembly, attendees will examine how, from the vastness of the universe to the space within us, God creates life, even out of what appears to be destruction and death.
"Violence against African Americans has been a fact of life in this country since the first slave patrols were created in the 1700s to apprehend runaway slaves," a National Black Sisters Conference statement says.
The biggest issues in religious life in the U.S. today all revolve around the transformation it is undergoing, officers of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious told GSR in an hourlong interview.