{"id":31741,"date":"1997-10-31T12:01:44","date_gmt":"1997-10-31T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=31741"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:28:05","slug":"kip-tiernan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1997\/10\/31\/kip-tiernan\/","title":{"rendered":"Social activist to discuss spirituality at Bates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kip Tiernan, founder of Rosie&#8217;s Place for Women, the Greater Boston Food Bank and Healthcare for the Homeless, will discuss <em>A Social Activist&#8217;s Perspective<\/em> as part of a new Bates College lecture series, <em>Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul<\/em>, at 4:30 p.m., Nov. 14, in the Benjamin Mays Center. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My background happens to be in public relations and advertising, and many years ago I was given the opportunity to promote another product, namely homeless women,&#8221; Tiernan told a commencement crowd last May upon receiving an honorary degree from Suffolk University.<\/p>\n<p>The academic-year series features individuals who represent a variety of religious traditions, disciplines and professions such as psychology, dance, peace activism and education. Speakers lead participants through a brief encounter with a spiritual practice or experience that has been important in their own lives.<\/p>\n<p>The next scheduled speaker is Czerny Brasuell, director of multicultural affairs at Bates College, who will discuss <em>Paths to Enlightenment: An Embarrassment of Riches<\/em> at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 13, in the Benjamin Mays Center.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the series, call 207-786-8272.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kip Tiernan, founder of Rosie&#8217;s Place for Women, the Greater Boston Food Bank and Healthcare for the Homeless, will discuss &#8220;A Social Activist&#8217;s Perspective&#8221; as part of a new Bates College lecture series, &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul,&#8221; at 4:30 p.m., Nov. 14, in the Benjamin Mays Center. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[30,39,175,32],"tags":[8087],"class_list":["post-31741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-event-highlights","category-justice-poverty","category-maine-and-new-england","tag-spiritual-journeys-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92024,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions\/92024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}