Sunday, April 19th at 11:30am, historian Amy Kittelstrom will be at MPC discussing her new book The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating talk.
Please note: the talk will take place in Room 10, which faces on to the central patio at MPC.
About the book:
Many Americans will tell you that they associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today’s debates would suggest. The Religion of Democracy is a history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers – John Adams, Mary Moody Emerson, William Ellery Channing, William James, Thomas Davidson, William Mackintire Salter, and Jane Addams. (source: Penguin Press)
About the author:
Amy Kittelstrom is an associate professor of history at Sonoma State University, specializing in nineteenth-century American thinkers and their sociopolitical context. She has published articles and reviews in the Journal of American History, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She received her Ph.D in history from Boston University and is a past fellow of the Center for Religion and American Life at Yale, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard, and the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton. (source: Penguin Press)
Please contact the church main office with questions. Hope to see you there!
Photo credit: William Clay Poe III
r those who need financial help on the trip. Each year we travel to a different place to do service, learning, and fellowship. We alternate between more exotic far-away trips (last year’s Memphis trip for example!) and closer to home trips where we can integrate our learning more directly into our lives. This year we are traveling to Mendocino CA, helping to renovate and revamp the Mendocino Christian Camp there, and serving meals to the homeless while we learn about what it is like to be homeless in a rural setting.
and you can choose any level of donation from $2 on up to $500. But you will want to choose your donation amount carefully, as each donation envelope has a prize inside!
Saturday, January 17th at 7pm, New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore will be at MPC discussing his new book The Work. A follow up to his bestselling book The Other Wes Moore, The Work continues a remarkable quest to find a meaningful life. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating evening.
THE WORK is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to discover the meaning of his life and how he found that meaning in service. He tells stories about his adventures and the lessons he learned about how to create a life that matters from the people he met along the way—from the brave Afghan translator who taught him about what it means to find your fight to the resilient students in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina who taught him the meaning of grit to his late grandfather, who offered him the lessons of grace in service. He also tells the stories of other remarkable changemakers who’ve found deep meaning in their work—from Daniel Lubetzy, the founder of KIND to Esther Benjamin, a former director of the Peace Corps. What their lessons, as well as his own experiences, reveal is that our truest work happens when our personal talents and ambitions meet the needs of the world around us. It’s at that point of intersection—between our gifts and our broken world—that we find the work of our lives, the work that lasts.