In The Interfaith Alternative Reverend Greenebaum shows us how we can celebrate each other without fear of losing our own identity. He illuminates the path to creating a nurturing spiritual community that honors and includes all religious languages. In doing so\, he demonstrates that through coming together in a mutually supportive environment we can concentrate on our shared desire to remake the world into a compassionate\, loving place.
Whatever your spiritual path\, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love\, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousand years after Moses\, twenty-five hundred years after the Buddha\, two thousand years after Jesus and fifteen hundred after Muhammad\, we are still divided by our differences. Religious intolerance\, discrimination\, even persecution and violence is the not-so-golden rule.
At its core\, Interfaith is about community and justice. Once we truly embrace diversity\, we embrace our common humanity. A powerful antidote to the current climate of fear and mistrust\, The Interfaith Alternative argues that it is not how we encounter the sacred\, but what we DO about it that counts - there are positive alternatives to religious lines in the sand.
Widely praised by reviewers\, The Interfaith Alternative is\, as Bill McKibben has described it\, “a timely and useful challenge to all people of faith.”
Reverend Steven Greenebaum is an Interfaith Minister with Masters Degrees in Mythology\, Music\, and Pastoral Studies. Steven has dedicated his life to the oneness of humanity\, working for social and environmental justice though a multitude of forums. Beyond teaching Mythology and directing choirs\, he worked with Common Cause\, and was the Founder/Executive Director of Citizens for Environmental Responsibility. Steven’s articles calling for social justice have been published in The Seattle Times and The Everett Herald\, as well as The Northwest Asian Weekly. In 2010 he founded the Living Interfaith Church in Lynnwood\, Washington.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T020929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120505T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120505T033000Z UID:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/author-event-davis-fig-tree-bell-carlos-puente URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/author-event-davis-fig-tree-bell-carlos-puente SUMMARY:Author Event (Davis) -- The Fig Tree & The Bell with Carlos Puente DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T020929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120512T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120512T033000Z UID:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/author-event-davis-vince-guaraldi-piano-derrick-bang URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/author-event-davis-vince-guaraldi-piano-derrick-bang SUMMARY:Author Event (Davis) -- Vince Guaraldi at the Piano with Derrick Bang DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T020929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120519T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120519T033000Z UID:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/first-hearts-max-byrd URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/first-hearts-max-byrd SUMMARY:First of Hearts with Max Byrd and William Wood (Davis) DESCRIPTION:A woman of not so very long ago speaks to us today\, with a new introduction by a leading woman of our day.
Marian Hooper—known from childhood as "\;Clover"\;—was one of the most remarkable American women of the nineteenth century. She and her husband\, the celebrated historian Henry Adams\, grandson of John Quincy Adams\, resided for the last part of her life in a magnificent Washington house next door to President McKinley's Secretary of State\, John Hay (the two structures later became the Hays-Adams Hotel). Here Clover practiced her art of photography—one of the first American women to enter that field—and held a salon for politicians and writers of every stripe\: Henry James came to visit often\, as did General Sherman\, McKinley\, Clarence King\, Oscar Wilde\, and dozens of others. And for a period of seven years Clover wrote to her father in Boston a series of warm\, chatty\, hilariously perceptive letters about those salons and about Washington life and politics in the Gilded Age—an age that resembles\, in many disturbing ways\, our own time.
These letters\, first selected and published by Ward Thoron in 1937\, constitute one of the forgotten gems of American history. The distinguished Emmy-award winning journalist and historian Cokie Roberts has written a brilliant new introduction to this fascinating and delightful collection. Herself a member of a great American political family\, Roberts has long lived and worked in Washington. She is the most insightful and eloquent commentator on Washington life and politics since . . . Clover Adams.
Read the favorable review in the Wall Street Journal here.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T020929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120520T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120520T010000Z UID:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/launch-party-davis-gilt-katherine-longshore URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/launch-party-davis-gilt-katherine-longshore SUMMARY:Launch Party (Davis) -- Gilt with Katherine Longshore DESCRIPTION:Few periods in history were as full of scandal\, intrigue\, and deceit as the rule of England’s King Henry VIII. Known for his six wives\, several of whom met untimely ends\, Henry’s court was a cutthroat world of gossip and wealth\, a complex game of social hierarchies rife with jealousy and backstabbing. Players armed themselves with rumors\, secrets and lies\, and friends switched loyalties and betrayed one another simply to win favor with those in power.
Sounds a lot like high school\, doesn’t it? Minus the beheadings\, of course.
In fact Henry’s fifth wife\, Catherine Howard\, is thought to have been only a teenager when she became queen. Katherine Longshore’s hopelessly addictive debut novel\, GILT\, brings Catherine’s brief reign vividly to life.
At GILT’s heart lies not the relationship between Cat and the king\, nor the liaisons with other men that proved her undoing\; but her friendship with one Kitty Tylney\, her childhood confidant who follows her to court. Catherine is the ultimate mean girl\, and Kitty\, who has no family or connections\, her loyal sidekick. Teens who have navigated the turbulent waters of high school cliques will find Kitty a sympathetic narrator and understand her conflicted emotions about her supposed best friend\, who rules their flock of girls with an iron fist even before she is queen. Kitty watches as Cat climbs to the very highest position in the kingdom\, knowing that if and when Cat falls\, she’ll pull Kitty down with her. And in Henry VIII’s Tudor Court\, losing popularity can mean your very head.
“I find history riveting\,” says Ms. Longshore\, and GILT’s readers will be hard-pressed to disagree. In a market saturated with dystopias\, GILT is a reminder that history is also full of drama\, heady romance\, and rigid social rules that demand to be broken. With lush descriptions of jewels and fashions\, a page-turning plot\, and a cast of dangerously handsome noblemen\, GILT is certain to hook not only teens\, but adult readers as well.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T020929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120521T000000Z UID:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/meet-greet-sacramento-rail-tales-brian-green URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/meet-greet-sacramento-rail-tales-brian-green SUMMARY:Meet & Greet (Sacramento) -- Rail Tales with Brian Green DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130523T020929Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T033000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120527T033000Z UID:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/author-event-davis-2312-kim-stanley-robinson URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.avidreaderbooks.com/event/author-event-davis-2312-kim-stanley-robinson SUMMARY:Author Event (Davis) -- 2312 with Kim Stanley Robinson DESCRIPTION:Please join us as Kim Stanley Robinson\, the "\;writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future"\;\, discusses his new book 2312.
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home\; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons\, planets\, and in between. But in this year\, 2312\, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past\, its present\, and its future.
The first event takes place on Mercury\, on the city of Terminator\, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death\, but one that might have been foreseen. For Swan Er Hong\, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.
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