The Future of Faith: with Harvey Cox and E.J. Dionne
Mike Connery | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 05:10 PMUpdate: Thanks to everyone who attended the event - in person or online. We’ve taken down the live-stream player. A full video archive of the event will be available soon.
Welcome Street Prophets Viewers! Remember to head back over to Street Prophets with your comments before the Q&A starts. We will ask your questions here at the live event.
Is the Religious Right really on the decline? Is Christianity undergoing a third period of transformation marked by a disregard of dogma in favor of a more open “spirituality,” and a collapse of barriers between different religions? What are the consequences of these shifts as we debate health care - particularly the controversial Stupak Amendment?
Join us tonight, at 6pm Eastern, as Harvard divinity professor Harvey Cox, and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne discuss Cox’s new book, The Future of Faith.
If you are in New York City, join us at the WNYC Greene Space for this important - and FREE - event.
If you are not in New York, watch the live stream here on the PBC blog, or join our partners at Street Prophets, an online community for progressives of faith, who will also be hosting a live stream of the event.
Event: Mark Danner and Amy Goodman
Julian Brookes | Friday, October 9, 2009 02:29 PM
Mark Danner, whose reporting on torture for the New York Review of Books deserves some kind of national service award, has a new book coming out. It’s titled Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War. For those of you in New York, Danner will be discussing the book with Amy Goodman at an event next Thursday evening. Details below.
October 15
An Evening with Mark Danner and Amy Goodman
Where: Tishman Auditorium, The New School, New York City
When: 7 pm
Cost: FREE
Join award-winning writer Mark Danner as he discusses his groundbreaking new book, Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War(Nation Books). Danner will be interviewed by investigative journalist Amy Goodman, co-founder and host of Democracy Now!
Drawing on accounts of politics, violence, and war from around the world, Stripping Bare the Body is a moral history of American power during the last quarter century. Moving from bloody battlegrounds and dark prison cells to air-conditioned offices, the book recounts how the United States passed from the Cold War’s violent certainties through the ideological confusions of the post-Cold War world into the ongoing fanatical evangelism of the War on Terror and the Iraq War. The grim and compelling narrative tells the tale of the final years of the American Century and the wreckage it has left in its wake.
The conversation will be followed by audience questions and a book signing.
Moving Forward: Foundations of a New Progressive Era
Mike Connery | Thursday, October 1, 2009 06:11 PM
The Progressive Book Club, and our partners the Center for American Progress, are pleased to announce the launch of Moving Forward: Foundations of a New Progressive Era, a new authors series that will bring together leading writers and policy experts in a unique in-person and online discussion forum for Americans to learn, connect, and debate progressive ideas.
The series will examine a range of issues emerging from the intersection of history, philosophy, political theory and public policy. Each event will feature a different topic, author, and moderator with live and online audiences ready to debate and discuss the issues raised. Additional online content over time will include author interviews, videos, webinars and links to supporting content and activism resources hosted by CAP, PBC and other partner organizations.
The first event in the series will feature historian Kevin Mattson, author of What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?” Jimmy Carter, America’s “Malaise” And the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C.
Introduction by:
Deb Callahan, PBC Board Member and President of the Heinz Center
Moderated by:
John Halpin, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Ruy Teixeira, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Featuring:
Kevin Mattson, Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University and Affiliated Scholar of the Center for American Progress
James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic; former chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter.
If you are in DC and would like to attend the event in person, RSVP here.
