Description
Just Resilience: How to Stay in the Struggle for the Long Haul
Hamline University’s Mahle Lecture 2026 invites the community into a timely and urgent conversation about faith, justice, and the work of building a better future.
Just Resilience: How to Stay in the Struggle for the Long Haul explores how diverse faith traditions cultivate resilience in the face of persistent housing insecurity and homelessness. As affordable housing challenges intensify across the Twin Cities, people of faith and conscience continue to ask: How do we sustain hope? How do we avoid burnout? And how do we root long-term advocacy in spiritual practice and community?
Through keynote reflections, shared learning, and dialogue, this event will highlight how faith communities respond to housing injustice—not only with service, but with sustained moral imagination, organizing, and solidarity. Participants will gain insight into the spiritual resources that nourish endurance, the partnerships that amplify impact, and the practices that help communities remain engaged even when change is slow.
Whether you are a student exploring vocation, a community member engaged in housing advocacy, a faith leader, or someone seeking deeper understanding of the intersection between spirituality and social justice, this lecture offers an opportunity to connect reflection with real-world impact.
Location
Kay Fredericks Room, Klas Center, Hamline University
W Taylor Ave, St Paul, MN 55104
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Sponsor
Wesley Center
Cost
Free
Contact
Questions? Contact Chaplain Kelly Figueroa-Ray at Chaplain@hamline.edu.