Dr. Arlette Zinck, teacher to Omar Khadr, will deliver the 37th annual Nash Memorial Lecture, Discerning a Path Toward Hope: A Liberal Arts University’s Journey with Omar Khadr, on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Education Auditorium, University of Regina (main campus). 

In her lecture, Dr. Zinck will relay the story that took members of The King’s University community to Guantanamo Bay, and into a series of Canadian prisons. What began as an effort to teach King’s students, and ended with Omar Khadr becoming a King’s student. In September of 2008 students and faculty at The King’s University, Edmonton were introduced to the Omar Khadr case. In the seven years that followed, the community at King’s wrestled with that hopelessness and learned a few lessons in the process.  This is a story about how a university community learned how to connect their faith to their learning and their theory to their practice in a way that directed them toward hope. 

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Campion College presents the 37th annual Nash Memorial Lecture Discerning a Path Toward Hope: A Liberal Arts University’s Journey with Omar Khadr delivered by guest lecturer Dr. Arlette Zinck. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Education Auditorium, University of Regina (main campus). Admission is free. Complimentary parking is available in lots 7 and 8.

In her lecture, Dr. Zinck will relay the story that took members of The King’s University community to Guantanamo Bay, and into a series of Canadian prisons. In September of 2008, students and faculty at The King’s University, Edmonton were introduced to the Omar Khadr case. In the seven years that followed, the community at King’s wrestled with that hopelessness and learned a few lessons in the process. This is a story about how a university community learned how to connect their faith to their learning and their theory to their practice in a way that directed them toward hope. What...

The Regina Roman Catholic School Division continues to have one of the best academic records in the province, according to reports given at the Annual General meeting held February 6 at the Catholic Education Centre. “Our Annual Report shows that our students continue to achieve above provincial standards in most academic categories that are measured,” said Director of Education Domenic Scuglia. “This is a tribute to the commitment all our employees make to ensure all our students reach their full potential.”

Catholic School Board Chair Donna Ziegler said the Trustees appreciate that results like that do not happen by chance; that it requires the effort and care of the entire education community. On behalf of all the Trustees she expressed appreciation to all school-based administrators, teachers, education support professionals, custodians, Catholic education Centre staff and all who had a hand in the education of the students. “We are truly blessed to have such caring and...

"Woe betide me if I do not proclaim the gospel!" (1Cor. 9:16).

These words of St. Paul urge us as Christians who have a duty to bring the Word of God to others because Evangelizationis the nature ofthe Church.

While visiting the classrooms, I meet many students whose parents are non-practicing Catholics and teachers who are not passionate about God. Therefore, these students are missing out on the experience of God’s love, and are losing the opportunity to know God’s love. Also, they may not realize what they are missing because their short-term needs are being filled by the distractions of materialism, the age of fast living and instant self-gratification.

While visiting patients at the hospital, I see some among the weak and the sick who are yearning for God’s love but do not know how to approach God. They have been away from the practice of the faith and feel distant from God. Besides, many...