WALPOLE – The Walpole Unitarian Church spiritual discussion group will resume Tuesday, Nov. 13, at the Hastings Parish House from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The topic is “Getting Proximate to Pain, and Holding to the Power of Love,” featuring Rami Nashashibi and Lucas Johnson.
Our topics are drawn from the archives of “On Being” interviews conducted by Krista Tippet and broadcast on public radio.
Participants listen to the program via website or podcast, then we meet to consider it together.” We’ll meet every other Tuesday through November. Come for all of the conversations, or any number you can make. All are welcome to stay for lunch following the discussion, bring your own.
Krista Tippet was introduced to Lucas Johnson by the great civil rights elder Vincent Harding. He said that this young man embodies the genius of nonviolence for our century – nonviolence not as a withholding of violence, but as a way of being present.
“On Being” brings him together with Rami Nashashibi, a rising visionary and kindred force in the Muslim world. Lucas is based in Amsterdam; Rami’s center of gravity is the South Side of Chicago.
They have much to teach us all about the lived practicalities and tensions of the “strong, demanding love” to which Martin Luther King, Jr. called the world of his time – a call that is echoing again in ours.
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