About The Event
The JOSHUA Spiritual Leaders invite you to a Big Read of A More Perfect Union by Adam Russell Taylor.
America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril…In A More Perfect Union, Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, reimagines a contemporary version of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Beloved Community that will inspire and unite Americans across generations, geographic and class divides, racial and gender differences, faith traditions, and ideological leanings. In the Beloved Community, neither privilege nor punishment is tied to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status, and everyone is able to realize their full potential and thrive. Building the Beloved Community requires living out a series of commitments, such as true equality, radical welcome, transformational interdependence, E Pluribus Unum ("out of many, one"), environmental stewardship, nonviolence, and economic equity. By building the Beloved Community we unify the country around a shared moral vision that transcends ideology and partisanship, tapping into our most sacred civic and religious values, enabling our nation to live up to its best ideals and realize a more perfect union.
In initiating this Big Read, the JOSHUA Spiritual Leaders’ Caucus is calling our community to actively pick up the baton as we take our turn in building up the Beloved Community. We find ourselves in a culture of strict divides with practically everyone saying, “We should do something about that.” This Big Read of A More Perfect Union is a one small step toward a faithful response to the intense divide and suspicion in our current public discourse, a reasoned and faithful forum to forge a strong pathway forward for our Brown County community. With a foreword by the late Representative John Lewis, A More Perfect Union may be just the clarion call needed for people of faith communities. The JOSHUA Spiritual Leaders’ Caucus invites friends of Sojourners to join them for the last session of their book study led by Adam Russell Taylor via Zoom on Thursday evening June 20 at 8:00 pm (Eastern).
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Meeting ID: 896 4591 8269
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