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SUMMARY:Renewing America’s Social Fabric: How to Foster Hope and Reconciliation in our Communities
DESCRIPTION:A private webinar for students\, faculty\, and partners\, hosted by AEI’s Initiative on Faith & Public Life\nTuesday\, November 17\, 2020 | 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM ET \nOver the course of 2020\, American society has been rocked by a global pandemic\, racial injustice\, social unrest\, and economic uncertainty. Even more troubling\, these particular crises have uncovered deeper societal ills—including deep-seated sentiments of distrust and despair—which have been brewing for decades. We usually look to government for the solutions to these problems\, but with a divisive election season now behind us\, where else can we focus our efforts? What role can individuals and communities play in tackling these challenges and renewing our social fabric? \nWe invite you to join AEI’s Initiative on Faith & Public Life for an inspiring and practical conversation about how creative local initiatives can restore hope\, foster reconciliation\, and rebuild our communities. The discussion will feature Anne Snyder\, the author of The Fabric of Character and editor-in-chief of Comment magazine; Joe Nail and Benya Kraus of Lead for America\, an organization that creates community-centered public service programs that equip young people to invest in their home towns; and David Bailey\, the executive director of Arrabon\, an organization that provides Christian leaders and their communities with the resources to effectively engage in the work of reconciliation. \nThe discussion will be hosted as a private Zoom webinar and is primarily intended for college students\, faculty\, and partners in our network. If possible\, we ask that you include your affiliation (school or workplace) in the “Organization” field when registering. \nAgenda\n7:00 pm\nOpening remarks:\nTyler Castle\, AEI \n7:05 pm\nDiscussion \nPanelists:\nDavid Bailey\, Arrabon\nBenya Kraus\, Lead for America\nJoe Nail\, Lead for America\nAnne Snyder\, Comment \n7:50 pm\nQ&A \n8:15 pm\nEvent concludes \nContact Information\nAryana Petrosky Roberts | Aryana.Petrosky@aei.org
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/renewing-americas-social-fabric-how-to-foster-hope-and-reconciliation-in-our-communities/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,COVID-19,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Healing a Fractured World: A Leadership Foundations Town Hall Series
DESCRIPTION:Join Leadership Foundations for a 5 week series of conversations with thought leaders and local practitioners around what we can do to heal our fractured world. \nGuest speaker: Peter Wehner\, VP of the Ethics and Public Policy Center \nWednesdays\, Oct. 21 – Nov. 18\n10am ET
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/healing-a-fractured-world/
CATEGORIES:Community,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201110T130000
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SUMMARY:An Online Dialogue on Faith and the Faithful in the 2020 Election: What Happened? Why? What Now?
DESCRIPTION:A week after the United States’ election day\, this online Georgetown dialogue will bring together respected reporters and experts on faith and politics to examine how religious values\, voters\, and communities shaped the debate and affected the outcome of the presidential election. They will also look back at what issues\, strategies\, and tactics were used by the Trump and Biden campaigns and how effective they were.This conversation will also look ahead to whether and how the nation can come together after the election and the roles of religious believers and communities in defending human life and dignity\, lifting up “the least of these\,” protecting our democracy\, and pursuing the common good.\n\n\n\n\nYamiche Alcindor (C’09) (invited) is the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a political contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. She is the 2020 recipient of the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the White House Correspondents’ Association. She previously was a reporter for the New York Times\, covering politics and social justice issues.\nElizabeth Dias is a national correspondent for the New York Times covering faith\, values\, and the 2020 elections. With degrees from Wheaton College and Princeton Theological Seminary\, she is the 2016 recipient of the Hunt Prize for Excellence in Journalism\, Arts\, and Letters from America.\nElana Schor is a national reporter for religion and politics for the Associated Press. She is a former reporter for POLITICO\, The Hill\, The Guardian\, and Greenwire where she covered issues from climate change to criminal justice reform.\nMark Shields is a weekly political commentator for the PBS NewsHour and syndicated political columnist. A graduate of Notre Dame and a former U.S. Marine\, he has covered the last 12 presidential campaigns.\nChristopher White is the national correspondent for National Catholic Reporter where he has covered the Catholic dimensions of the 2020 campaign. He is a former reporter for Crux and The Tablet newspaper of the diocese of Brooklyn.\n\n\nJohn Carr\, director of the Initiative\, will moderate the dialogue. \nThis dialogue will have live closed captioning. For all other accommodation requests\, please email cathsocialthought@georgetown.eduby November 9\, 2020. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. \nThis Public Dialogue is part of the Initiative’s Faith and the Faithful series. It is co-sponsored by Bread for the World and is supported by the Democracy Fund. \nThe day of the discussion\, all who have RSVP’d will receive an email with a link and step-by-step instructions on how to join the livestream.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/an-online-dialogue-on-faith-and-the-faithful-in-the-2020-election-what-happened-why-what-now/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Politics,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:Preserving Democracy Amidst Deep Division
DESCRIPTION:The Trinity Forum in partnership with Montgomery Bell Academy and St. Paul Christian Academy are pleased to present Preserving Democracy Amidst Deep Difference\, a virtual event with Robert P. George and Cornel West on Monday\, October 26th at 8:00 p.m. ET. \nDrs. West and George would seem to have little in common politically\, ideologically\, or stylistically. But they share a deep friendship\, a common faith\, and a long-standing collaboration to encourage “the cultivation and practice of the virtues of intellectual humility\, openness of mind\, and above all\, love of truth.” \nWhile every election brings uncertainty and anxiety\, the events of this year seem particularly divisive and alienating. Tribalism and unrest have\, in many cases\, shaken public confidence in the strength of democratic principles. George and West show\, as well as tell\, how friendship across difference is good for the soul\, as well as good for the country — a message particularly salient in our polarized time. \nSpecial thanks to this event’s sponsors:\nBetsy and Larry Roadman\nSteve and Jan Riven
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/preserving-democracy-amidst-deep-division/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T070000
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SUMMARY:Healing A Fractured World: A Series of Leadership Foundations Town Halls
DESCRIPTION:Each Wednesday\, October 21-November 18 \nJoin us as we come together at the intersection of thought leadership and praxis.The world can seem out of control as we try to manage a worldwide pandemic\, make progress on racial injustice\, and repair the deep polarization that exists across the globe. In this 5 part series\, we will explore a range of topics as we attempt to reimagine community together in light of the current crises. In short\, and to borrow a phrase from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks\, how to heal a fractured world. \nHEALING A FRACTURED WORLD SPEAKER LINEUP:  \nOctober 21: Ernest Brooks\, Isaacson\, Miller \nOctober 28: Rev. Lucas Johnson\, Executive Director\, On Being’s Civil Conversation Project \nNovember 4: Bill Milliken\, Board Member\, Leadership Foundations \nNovember 11: To Be Announced \nNovember 18: To Be Announced
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/healing-a-fractured-world-a-series-of-leadership-foundations-town-halls/
CATEGORIES:Community,COVID-19,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:For Love of Neighbor: Politics for the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Hosted in partnership with Q Ideas\, this virtual premiere will feature an exclusive screening of the film\, followed by a discussion with Katelyn Beaty\, Arthur Brooks\, and Justin Giboney.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/for-love-of-neighbor-politics-for-the-common-good/
CATEGORIES:Art,Introspection,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201016T133000
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SUMMARY:Christianity & the Case for Democracy
DESCRIPTION:The Trinity Forum will partner with Duke Divinity School on Friday\, October 16th for an Online Conversation with Luke Bretherton\, Deondra Rose\, and Anne Snyder Brooks discussing Bretherton’s recent work\, ‘Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy.’ \nBretherton says of Political Theology\, “…it is an interpretive art for discovering faithful\, hopeful\, and loving judgements about how to act together in response to shared problems.” As the election rapidly approaches it is important to take time to reflect on our understanding of what politics are for\, and consider how to “create and sustain a common life oriented to mutual flourishing.” Luke\, Deondra\, and Anne will help us do just that. We hope you will join us!
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/christianity-the-case-for-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Introspection,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T183000
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SUMMARY:The Church\, the State\, and the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting quarantine restrictions have impacted many aspects of our lives. Faith communities in particular have faced restrictions on public worship and on their community outreach and have had to adapt. Some argue these restrictions to be reasonable while others see them as unreasonable limits on religious freedom. \nDetails\nWhat have we learned from the past 7 months about the duties of the civil authorities to churches and other faith communities during a time of quarantine? What are the duties of churches and faith communities? What role must churches and other faith communities play in addressing the significant challenges we face in maintaining our common life as citizens? \nPlease join the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute as we explore these questions with three leading commentators. \nPresenters:\nDr. Moira McQueen\, Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute (CRFI Advisory Board)\nDr. Tim Lau\, Faculty of Medicine\, University of Ottawa\nProf. Douglas Farrow\, McGill University (CRFI Advisory Board) \nModerator:\nRev. Dr. Andrew Bennett\, Director of the Cardus Religious Freedom Institute (CRFI)
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-church-the-state-and-the-pandemic/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,COVID-19,Learning From the Past,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201008T200000
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SUMMARY:Racial Justice: Why?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers\nDehlia Umunna – Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\nJennifer Lackey – Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University \nModerator\nTony Lin – Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Research at New York Theological Seminary \nAt this moment\, the intensified movement for racial justice has brought the need for systemic transformation into the mainstream. Yet\, amidst the influx of information and many calls to action\, we believe there can be more dialogue in the space of dreaming forward and imagining a more just and loving future. In this forum\, we look to deepen our reflections as individuals and as people in community with one another in higher education. Questions we seek to explore: What role do academic institutions play\, if at all\, in the pursuit of racial justice? How might we\, as members in an academic community\, engage in meaningful dialogue and action with each other and in our other communities? \nHosted by teams at New York University\, Harvard Law School\, and Northwestern University\, and co-hosted by teams at University of California\, Berkeley and Brown University.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/racial-justice-why/
CATEGORIES:Community,Justice,Politics,Race
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SUMMARY:Contemplation in an Age of Distraction: Wisdom from St. Augustine
DESCRIPTION:The Thomistic Institute at Yale University presents a lecture on “Contemplation in an Age of Distraction: Wisdom from St. Augustine” by Prof. Zena Hitz of St. John’s College\, Annapolis. \nAbout the speaker:\nZena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John’s College where she teaches across the liberal arts.  She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake\, as against its use for economic or political goals.  Her forthcoming book\, Intellectual Life\, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things\, Modern Age\, and The Washington Post.  Her scholarly work has focused on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle\, especially the question of how law cultivates or fails to cultivate human excellence.  She received an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and studied Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago before finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/contemplation-in-an-age-of-distraction-wisdom-from-st-augustine/
CATEGORIES:Learning From the Past,Technology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T130000
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SUMMARY:The Last Plague: Thinking about God\, Justice\, and Evil in the Old Testament
DESCRIPTION:The Thomistic Institute at Texas A&M University presents a lecture by Fr. Thomas Joseph White of the Angelicum titled “The Last Plague: Thinking about God\, Justice\, and Evil in the Old Testament.” \nThis lecture will be on Zoom. Register to receive Zoom credentials. Eventbrite will send a confirmation email with those credentials. Check below “Additional Information.” \nAbout the speaker:\nFr. Thomas Joseph White\, O.P. is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University\, and has research interests in metaphysics\, Christology\, Trinitarian theology\, and the theology of grace. His books include The Incarnate Lord\, A Thomistic Study in Christology (2015) and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (2017). He is co-editor of the academic journal Nova et Vetera and in 2011 was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2019 Fr. White was named a McDonald Agape Foundation Distinguished Scholar.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/the-last-plague-thinking-about-god-justice-and-evil-in-the-old-testament/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T120000
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SUMMARY:A Student Summa Theologiae Reading Group: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Virtue of Fortitude
DESCRIPTION:Led by Dr. Thomas Hibbs (President\, University of Dallas) \nTuesdays & Thursdays\, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST \nSept. 15 – Oct. 8\, 2020 \nThis Student Summa Theologiae Reading Group will examine the virtue of fortitude as presented in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Reading groups gather once or twice a week via Zoom for relaxed\, 1-2 hour discussions\, working their way through a few articles of the Summa Theologiae or another of Aquinas’s major works each week.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/a-student-summa-theologiae-reading-group-st-thomas-aquinas-on-the-virtue-of-fortitude/
CATEGORIES:Education,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T200000
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CREATED:20200929T181728Z
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SUMMARY:Livestream : Hilbilly Tourism: Flannery O'Connor's Vision of Grace
DESCRIPTION:The Thomistic Institute and the Catholic Information Center present a livestreamed lecture with Prof. Jennifer Frey of the University of South Carolina titled “Hillbilly Thomism: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace.” \nThis lecture will be livestreamed through YouTube\, Facebook\, and Zoom. \nAbout the Speaker\nJennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000\, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer’s research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy\, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy\, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants\, including coa 2.1 million dollar project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation\, titled “Virtue\, Happiness\, and Meaning in Life.” She is currently at work on three separate book projects.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/livestream-hilbilly-tourism-flannery-oconnors-vision-of-grace/
CATEGORIES:Art,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T190000
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SUMMARY:Between Pandemic and Protest: Exploring the Future of Liberal Arts in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education\, presenting a cliff made still taller by a powerful protest movement. Both events have intensified pressures long squeezing the survival of the liberal arts as a viable educational model\, highlighting both the urgency and the elusiveness of moral formation in a twenty-first century education. How might those invested in preserving the liberal arts proceed? Might this year in all its drama present a tipping point for good? \nOn Monday\, October 5 at 7:00 p.m. ET\, join us for a roundtable conversation on the enduring value of the liberal arts as we consider our society beyond 2020. \n  \nFrancis Su Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics\, Harvey Mudd College \nJeffrey Bilbro Associate Professor of English\,Editor-in-Chief of Front Porch Republic \nJessica Hooten Wilson Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence\, University of Dallas \nAnne SnyderEditor-in-Chief ofBreaking Ground andComment Magazine \nDavid Henreckson Director\, Leadership and Service\, Valparaiso University
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/between-pandemic-and-protest-exploring-the-future-of-liberal-arts-in-higher-education/
CATEGORIES:COVID-19,Education,Imagining the Future
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T133000
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SUMMARY:Brothers and Sisters All: Pope Francis’ New Encyclical on Human Fraternity and Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:This dialogue with a distinguished group of leaders will address the themes of Pope Francis’ new encyclical Fratelli Tutti and the letter’s call to recognize that we are all brothers and sisters at a time of a global pandemic\, economic crises\, and a United States presidential election.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/brothers-and-sisters-all-pope-francis-new-encyclical-on-human-fraternity-and-solidarity/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Learning From the Past
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SUMMARY:Augustine's vision for Christians and society: a reset for fraught times?
DESCRIPTION:Injustice and unrest proliferate. Divided society crumbles amid unsolvable challenges. Alienation and fear perennially prosper… again. In 410 AD\, Romans faced to them what was the unthinkable when Goths sacked their ‘eternal city\,’ Turmoil abounded – pagans blamed Christians for their ‘Christian times\,’ Christians roiled to dismay asked why God had allowed catastrophe. Both believed Rome to be exceptional. Augustine waded into this angst and toxic mix with his City of God. It challenged the mythic ideas and misplaced loyalties of both the pagans and the Christians\, offering a vision of society that might prove sage in our own fraught times. \nAfter the lecture\, there will be a chance to hear briefly about opportunities for coming to Oxford virtually and in person.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/augustines-vision-for-christians-and-society-a-reset-for-fraught-times/
CATEGORIES:Church,Community,Learning From the Past
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201002T133000
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SUMMARY:Breaking Bread with the Dead\, with Alan Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome back to an Online Conversation Distinguished Professor Alan Jacobs to discuss his recently released book Breaking Bread with the Dead: a Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind. Jacobs will encourage us to engage with voices of the past to gain wisdom for the present. \nJacobs says\, “this is precisely the kind of moment when we need to take some time to step back from the fire hose of alarming news. As we try to manage our dispositions\, we need two things. First\, we need perspective; second\, we need tranquility. And it’s voices from the past that can give us both—even when they say things we don’t want to hear\, and when those voices belong to people who have done bad things. These figures from the past are willing to speak to us when we are willing to listen. They may sometimes speak words of offense\, but they may also speak words of wisdom that we either never knew or have forgotten.” \nWe hope you will join us for this conversation considering the virtues of interrogating the writings of the wise and pursuing a tranquil mind through reading.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/breaking-bread-with-the-dead-with-alan-jacobs/
CATEGORIES:Education,Learning From the Past,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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SUMMARY:"Sister of the Four" – a play
DESCRIPTION:“Sister of the Four” – a play\n\nWatch online the world premiere of a new two-act COVID-themed play by Eugene Vodolazkin\, the author of Laurus. Witty and Kafka-esque\, this is at least the beginning of an answer to the question of “What effect will COVID have on literature?”
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/sister-of-the-four-a-play/
CATEGORIES:Art,COVID-19,Imagining the Future
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SUMMARY:Ideas that Matter: The Black Experience in Biblical Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Ideas That Matter is an online lecture series hosted by Regent College this fall with the purpose of cultivating theological engagement with contemporary issues that are particularly relevant at this cultural moment. \nHow does our cultural lens impact the way we read scripture? What can the contemporary church learn from Bible interpretation within Black communities? Please join us as Regent College and the Regent College Bookstore welcome Dr. Lisa Bowens and Dr. Esau McCaulley\, provocative authors and speakers who are giving thought to these important questions.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/ideas-that-matter-the-black-experience-in-biblical-interpretation/
CATEGORIES:Church,Learning From the Past,Race,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200924T193000
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SUMMARY:Faith and Politics: Justice\, Mercy\, and the State
DESCRIPTION:Meet Shadi Hamid\, Ross Douthat\, Jacqueline Rivers\, John Huleatt and Peter Mommsen. \nQuestions of justice should matter deeply to all people of faith. But what is the relationship between divine law and human laws\, and what role\, if any\, does the state have in these questions? Join our online panel discussion with Shadi Hamid\, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution; New York Times columnist Ross Douthat; Jacqueline Rivers\, executive director of the Seymour Institute; and John Huleatt\, general counsel of the Bruderhof. Plough’s editor-in-chief\, Peter Mommsen\, will moderate. We’ll be discussing Plough Quarterly’s Spring issue\, Faith and Politics\, an online and print foray into the bigger questions we need to ask ourselves in a contentious election year. \nThis online event is hosted by Plough\, and co-sponsored by The Seymour Institute\, The Brookings Institution\, and Breaking Ground. Please sign up here to view on YouTube.
URL:https://breakingground.us/event/faith-and-politics-justice-mercy-and-the-state/
CATEGORIES:Church,Justice,Politics,Seeing Clearly and Deeply
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