Bookstore Luncheon: Restorative Justice and Sister Helen Prejean @ St Mark’s Episcopal

This year’s Bookstore Luncheon is featuring Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Sister Prejean will offer two different talks.

Sister Helen Prejean, Wednesday, May 4, 7.00pm
Join us for an evening lecture in the church, co-sponsored by the St. Mark’s Bookstore. Author and lecturer Sister Helen Prejean offers a lecture entitled “Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues.” Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J. has been instrumental in sparking a national dialogue on the death penalty and helping to shape the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to state executions. During this time, she was asked to correspond with a death row inmate Patrick Sonnier at Angola. She agreed and became his spiritual adviser. After witnessing his execution, she wrote a book about the experience. The result was Dead Man Walking. It became a movie, an opera and a play for high schools and colleges.

Sister Helen Prejean and Bookstore Luncheon, Thursday, May 5, starting at 11.00am
Sister Helen Prejean will speak in the Nave of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, followed by a luncheon at noon in support of the St. Mark’s Bookstore. The lecture entitled “Encountering the Other: First Steps on a Journey of Shared Humanity” is free and all are welcome. Reservations for the luncheon can be made online at www.stmarks-sa.org

or by calling 210-226-2426. Tickets are $30.