[amc] FW: E-Blast: Rabbi Michael Lerner in Austin - March 21
- From: "garland robertson" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0600
Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church
I am forwarding the information below for your awareness.
May it go well with you. Sincerely,
Garland Robertson
...always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to
bring some portion of misery to an end
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Subject: E-Blast: Rabbi Michael Lerner in Austin - March 21
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Rabbi Michael Lerner
author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious
Right
March 21 | 7:00 pm (free admission)
at the Congregation Beth Israel
(3901 Shoal Creek Blvd)
In an evening lecture, Rabbi Lerner will share with Austin his vision for
Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right. This event is free and
open to the public.
<http://www.tfn.org/files/fck/lernerbook.jpg> Lerner's book outlines a
Spiritual Covenant with Americans that is meant to be an alternative to the
Contract with America upon which Newt Gingrich based his campaign to turn
American politics in a more conservative direction in the 1990s.
The Left Hand of God is a critique not only of the religious right, but also
of the hostility toward religion and spirituality that one often encounters
in sections of liberal and progressive culture.
"Michael Lerner is one of America's most important spiritual teachers, a
contemporary prophet whose insightful and visionary thinking has already had
a profound impact on American culture and thought."
- Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners and author of the best-selling book,
God's Politics
"Michael Lerner is the most significant prophetic public intellectual and
spiritual leader of our generation. The Left Hand of God is a powerful and
intellectually compelling contribution to social and political theory and to
an understanding of the psychodynamics of American politics."
- Cornel West, Professor of Religion, Princeton University and author of
Race Matters
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Rabbi Michael Lerner
is an internationally renowned social theorist, theologian, psychotherapist,
and the founding editor of Tikkun magazine, and co-chair with Cornel West
and Sister Joan Chittister of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP).
This new national organization will be holding a national Spiritual Activism
conference May 17-20 in Washington, D.C. Rabbi Lerner is the author of ten
books, including Healing Israel/Palestine and Spirit Matters. He is also
rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in San Francisco and Berkeley.
For more information about this event, please contact <mailto:ryan@xxxxxxx>
Ryan at 512.322.0545.
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Sponsored by the Texas Freedom Network <http://www.tfn.org> ,
<http://www.bethisrael.org/> Congregation Beth Israel and the
<http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/> Network of Spiritual Progressives
(Austin Chapter).
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perspectives to be heard. Views expressed by speakers are their own and not
necessarily those of the congregation/organizations who sponsor this event.
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