The Left Hand of God book group: 1st meeting
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7:00pm THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2006: First meeting of a book-reading group on THE LEFT HAND OF GOD: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right, by Rabbi Michael Lerner. Click for more info. Please RSVP.
Please sign up and join us for the first meeting of a book-reading
group on:
The Left Hand of G!d:
Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right
Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right
by Rabbi Michael Lerner
Thursday, November 9
7:00pm
Harvard Divinity School
Andover Hall - Rm. 103
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(see link below for directions)
7:00pm
Harvard Divinity School
Andover Hall - Rm. 103
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(see link below for directions)
RSVP to:
Rachel Marta Greenberg (facilitator)
rachelmarta@aol.com
617.628.7432
From the book jacket:
"However distorted both the Right's analysis and its solutions to America's spiritual crisis may be, it wins allegiance by addressing the human hunger for a life with some higher purpose. The Left, by contrast, remains largely tone-deaf to the spiritual needs of the American people. It is the yearning for meaning in life, not just the desire for money or power, that lies at the core of American politics. . . . To succeed again, Lerner argues, the Democratic Party must rethink its relationship to God, champion a progressive spiritual vision, reject the old bottom line that promotes the globalization of selfishness, and deal head-on with the very real spiritual crisis that many Americans experience every day."
Introduction
Part One:
AMERICA'S SPIRITUAL CRISIS
1. The Real World's Bottom Line
2. Signs of Crisis
3. The Voice of Fear and the Voice of Hope
4. Enter the Religious Right
5. Elitism on the Left
6. The Religion of Secularism and the Fear of Spirit
7. How the Left Lost Hope
8. From Power to Purposelessness: The Fate of the Democrats
Part Two:
THE SPIRITUAL AGENDA For AMERICAN POLITICS:
A NEW BOTTOM LINE
Introduction
9. The Spiritual Covenant with America
10. The Family, Sexuality, and Personal Responsibility
11. The Caring Economy and Nurturing Society:
From Social Responsibility to Human Connectedness
12. We Will Make You Safer:
The Strategy of Generosity for Foreign Policy
Conclusion
Appendix One: Next Steps
Appendix Two: How to Do Politics with Spirit:
Building the Culture of a Spiritual Politics Movement
Directions: http://www.hds.harvard.edu/about_hds/directions.html
(Many thanks to Michael John Looft, student at HDS, for arranging the space.)
We are an international community of people of many faiths calling for social justice and political freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements. We seek to influence public discourse in order to inspire compassion, generosity, non-violence and recognition of the spiritual dimensions of life.
