Over 1,600 Expected at Politics, Spirituality Conference
Over 1,600 people from across the nation are expected to gather on Jan. 14 at the nation's capital where three renowned speakers will be creating a live forum to discuss the vital connection between politics and spirituality.
WASHINGTON – Over 1,600 people from across the nation are expected to gather on Jan. 14 at the nation's capital where three renowned speakers will be creating a live forum to discuss the vital connection between politics and spirituality.
With closed registration and a full waiting list, the Albuquerque, N.M.-based Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) and Washington, D.C.-based Sojourners are less than a week away from holding their three-day conference, "Politics and Spirituality: Seeking a Public Integrity."
"We sense that the country is hungry to replace a politics of blame and fear with a politics of solutions and hope," said a CAC released statement.
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Featured speakers for the gathering are Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; Anne Lamott, speaker of alcoholism, motherhood and Jesus and author of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith; and Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation.
Registered participants will spend the upcoming weekend in prayer, discussions and worship with a concluding public Prayer Walk and Witness at the U.S. Capitol scheduled for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"The conference is timely for a nation torn and divided by political strife and yet somehow seeking the Beloved Community uplifted by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr," said a statement by Sojourners.
While the January conference is sold out, the same conference will also be offered in September 2006 in Pasadena, Calif.
For more information, visit www.caradicalgrace.org.
