At the 2010 Living Eucharist: SENT conference, we are delighted to be able to have three keynote speakers:

• Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP
• Rev. J. Bryan Hehir
• Rev. J-Glenn Murray, SJ

Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP

Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP was born in London in 1945. The fourth of six children he was educated by the Benedictines at Worth & Downside schools. He joined the English Province of the Dominican Order in 1965, and was ordanied a priest in 1971. His studies brought him to Blackfriars and St. John's College in Oxford, and in Paris as well. He was a chaplain to the University of London form 1974 to 1976, before returning to Oxford, where he taught scripture for twelve years.

Besides teaching and preaching Fr. Radchliffe was involved in the peace movement and in ministry to people with AIDS. He was Prior of Oxford for six years until 1988, when he was elected Provincial of the English Province. He has served as President of the Conference of Major Religious Superiors. In 1992 he was elected Master of the Order, finishing his term in 2001. He was Chancellor of the Anglicum University in Rome, S. Tomas in Manila, the Ecole Bibliquein Jerusalem and the Theology Faculty in Fribourg.

Today as an itinerant preacher and lecturer, based at Blackfriars, Oxford, he spends two thirds of the year traveling and is on the board of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. He's also a Sarum Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. Fr. Radcliffe is an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, and a Doctor of Divinity hon. causa of Oxford University and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum). he also has honorary doctorates from various other universities in France, and US.

He's the author of several books including Sing a New Song, I Call You Friends, Seven Last Words, and What is the point of being a Christian?. he was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing in 2007. Why go to church?, which is his newest book, came out in December 2008.

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Rev. J. Bryan Hehir

J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also the Secretary for Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. Prior to assuming these positions Father Hehir served as President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the national network of Charities in the United States, from 2001 through 2003.   From 1973-1992 he served on the staff of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C., addressing issues of both foreign and domestic policy for the church in the United States. From 1984-1992, he served on the faculty at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 1993 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School as Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society. From 1998-2001 he served as Interim Dean and Dean of the Divinity School.

Father Hehir took his A.B. and Master of Divinity degrees at St. John’s Seminary and his Doctor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His research and writing focus on issues of ethics and foreign policy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics and in American society.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. He serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association, the Global Development Committee and the Independent Sector. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1984 and is the recipient of over thirty honorary degrees from American colleges and universities.

Publications include: “The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change”; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty”; “Catholicism and Democracy”; “Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition”; and “The Moral Dimension in the Use of Force”.

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Rev. J-Glenn Murray, SJ

J-Glenn Murray, SJ currently serves as Parochial Vicar at St. Aloysius Gonzaga parish, a Jesuit church in the shadow of our nation's Capitol.  He has been a member of the Maryland Province of Jesuits for the past 41 years. He was ordained to priestly ministry in June 1979.

He received a Bachelor’s Degree in philosophy and communications from Saint Louis University in 1970 and a Master’s Degree in Divinity with a concentration in Liturgy from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, in 1983. He has since pursued studies in Preaching at the Aquinas Institute in Saint Louis (1992-93) and completed a Doctor of Ministry degree with a concentration in Liturgy at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago (May 2006).

He was an associate pastor at Holy Cross Church (1980-81) in Durham, North Carolina, while a campus minister at Duke University. From 1981-88, he was a vice principal and teacher at Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, the oldest black Catholic high school in the Western Hemisphere.

He was the principal drafter of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ document Plenty Good Room: the Spirit and Truth of African-American Catholic Worship. Many of his writings have appeared in the bimonthly liturgical publication Plenty Good Room.

Fr. Murray worked for the Diocese of Cleveland in the Office of Pastoral Liturgy from 1989 until 2007, serving as its director since 1995. He has taught at the Jesuit School of Theology as well as Saint Mary’s Seminary and University in Cleveland, Ohio. He lectures widely in the areas of Liturgy and Culture, as well as conducting parish missions and priests’ retreats.

His memberships include the North American Academy of Liturgy, the Catholic Association of Liturgy and the newly constituted Jungmann Society, an international Jesuit organization working in liturgy and allied fields.