[amc] "How to Believe: Teachers and Seekers Show the Way to a Modern, Life-Changing Faith," March 20
- From: "Jared Diener" <jd.diener@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:29:31 -0500
This might be of interest to folks:
*"How to Believe: Teachers and Seekers Show the Way to a Modern,
Life-Changing Faith"
a reading/discussion with author Jon Spayde, former editor at the Utne
Reader
*
Thursday, March 20, 6:30 p.m.
Follett's Intellectual Property
2402 Guadalupe
After seeing Christianity become increasingly defined in the media as a
narrow and punitive political movement, Jon Spayde began to wonder: Are
religions now just combatants in the culture wars? Should he leave the
organized church? How are ordinary people using faith positively to search
for the truth and improve their lives? To answer those questions, Spayde
took a journey across America that introduced him to an array of believers,
eminent and obscure, who related their personal stories of active and living
faith. Spayde's odyssey brought him to a new understanding of why action is
more important than the intellect in faith, how true solace is found in
forging a personal relationship with God, and why worrying about one's own
"worthiness" is always beside the point.
Spayde's book *How to Believe* (Random House)
http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400064021
includes chapters on two members of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the
Rev. Jim Rigby and Gerald Gafford.
For more information, contact Robert Jensen at 471-1990 or
rjensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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