The 2026 Mahle Lecture, in collaboration with Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul and its initiative Project Home, will take place on March 26, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Klas Center, Kay Fredericks Room.
The lecture will explore “Just Resilience: How to Stay in the Struggle for the Long Haul.”
The presentation will discuss how faith traditions cultivate resilience in the fight to end housing insecurity and homelessness. As affordable housing challenges intensify across the Twin Cities, it will address questions of sustaining hope, preventing burnout, and grounding long-term advocacy in spiritual practice and community. The event will also feature an interactive art exhibit created by students from Hamline University's Multi-Faith Alliance (MFA) Scholars program, also supported by the Mahle family. Every participant will have the chance to leave a message on this piece, that will be installed in Project Home's multifaith room.
The event features two leaders from Interfaith Action of Greater St. Paul: Sara Liegl, director of Project Home, and Rev. Rachel McIver Morey, director of community and interfaith engagement.
Liegel has led an emergency shelter program serving families experiencing homelessness in Ramsey County since 2001 and has more than two decades of experience in homelessness prevention and family services. She serves as chair of the Ramsey County Federal Emergency Shelter and Food Program Local Advisory Board and contributes to Heading Home Ramsey’s steering committee and family work group. She earned a degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
An ordained United Methodist pastor, Morey brings decades of leadership working with faith communities to advance social justice and address housing inequalities. She earned her master of divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary and was an inaugural fellow of the Collegeville Institute.
Doors open at 5:00 p.m., followed by dinner at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture at 7 p.m. The event launches the start of a two-year partnership with Interfaith Action and its initiative Project Home. Reserve your spot today.