"Our Hidden Conversations, by award-winning journalist Michele Norris, is a remarkable book. By letting Americans of every walk of life share their deepest, most personal—and sometimes contradictory—attitudes on race, it takes us past the usual polarizing debates and points us toward the possibility of greater understanding.”
–Barack Obama – January 26, 2024
See Doing Good Together's Children's Book Lists, including:
The Dance of Hope, an excerpt from Steven Charleston's (Choctaw), We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope (Broadleaf, 2023)
Holly Berkley Fletcher writes a Substack called, A Zebra without Stripes. Her theme for 2024 is 'belonging', for which she has launched The Belonging Project, in which she will, 'talk to some people who really know how to foster it and others who are struggling to find it; read books; try out new things, and ask lots of questions.'
Human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that . . . life had meaning and value. . . . [Story] is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. —Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
Week Five: The Seven Stories: Part One: Stories Matter & The Stories That Don’t Work
Two weeks of CAC's Daily Meditations are inspired by The Seventh Story, a children's book written by Brian McLaren and Gareth Higgins, which offers a vision of love, reconciliation, and hope. In Stories Matter, Father Richard Rohr describes how stories provide purpose; The Stories That Don't Work is a summative excerpt from McLaren's and Higgins' book.
These first-time activists show that the front line isn’t just for the young.
Congregational Life: Change/Conflict
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