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12:43 - Why Does Truth Matter? And How Can We Reach It?
3:09:44 - “Without truth, there is no reconciliation” (Bryan Stevenson)
5:12:00 - Body and Identity
6:43:35 - "What never dies" (Takashi Nagai)

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Why Does Truth Matter? And How Can We Reach It?
This year Encounter’s questions through Fr. Giussani’s eyes, on the occasion of the publication of To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another with Michael Waldstein, Professor of New Testament, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH
Our Christian life, our faith, and our concrete morality, the set-up of our lives is determined either by current ideologies or by the factuality, the supremacy of our existence, of things as they happen, of things as we come across them, of things to which you react in a given way, of facts: facts as events.

-Fr. Luigi Giussani, To Give One’s Life for the Work of Another, MgGill-Queen University Press, 2022

“Without truth, there is no reconciliation” (Bryan Stevenson)
A face-to-face conversation with Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, moderated by Esmeralda Negron, assistant public defender
“The individual is more than the worst act he/she committed.” This is one of Mr. Stevenson’s most famous and challenging statements. What journey brought him to this conclusion? Why would it be true and what implications would it have on the judicial system? What can facilitate a similar journey, especially for young people? What is the relationship between individual and structural or systemic changes in society? What comes first and why? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during the conversation.

~ Body and Identity ~
A presentation on gender theory and its social implications, with Abigail Favale, Dean of the College of Humanities, George Fox University, and Helen Joyce, executive editor for events business of The Economist, moderated by Holly Peterson, Principal of Nativity: Faith and Reason School in Broomfield, CO
The so-called gender theory has caused widespread confusion and bewilderment. Thus, its content needs to be known and carefully tested against reality to the benefit of young people, parents, and educators. This critical assessment is all the more needed because of a general inclination, nowadays, to stop thinking about complex issues and go with the flow of the group one identifies with. Speakers have dedicated several years of their careers to studying the origin, content, policy-making consequences, and larger societal implications of the gender theory.

~ "What never dies" (Takashi Nagai) ~
A presentation on the life of Dr. Takashi Nagai and his wife Midori with Gabriele Di Comite, president of the Friends of Takashi and Midori Nagai association, Chad Diehl, Historian and Instructional Designer at the University of Virginia, and Dominic Higgins, movie director

During his medical studies, Takashi Nagai (1908-1951) was a convinced positivist atheist but he maintained a reason so open to reality that he was moved by the provocations of life and death, to the point of allowing himself to be accompanied to baptism by the encounter with Midori Marina Moriyama (1908-1945), a surprising example of faith and a virginal position, who would later become his wife. With baptism, he became Paul, a new creature who lives, looks, and judges everything starting from the experience of faith. On August 9, 1945, Midori fulfilled her life in the ultimate sacrifice, carried to heaven by the nuclear mushroom, while tightening her rosary. Takashi Paolo sets out on the path of a sought-after and profound poverty of spirit, which leads him to experience friendship with God in that atomic desert and to live the hundredfold of Faith which makes him an encounterable proclamation of Hope and Peace for his people. There are many who go looking for him. They call him “the saint of Urakami” because he, already ill with leukemia, is for those who meet him a true source of life and therefore the possibility of rebuilding on the ruins, as he wanted to indicate by planting 1,000 cherry trees with his first earnings.