TELLING  OUR  LIVES

IN  SPIRIT  &  IN  TRUTH

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An Evening for Laity with

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock

This lecture will discuss the spiritual power of telling our life stories, the theological insights that can come from such tellings, and what it means to live in the presence of the Spirit, no matter what happens to us.

Rita Nakashima Brock is Founding Co-Director of Faith Voices for the Common Good, an organization dedicated to educating the public about the values and concerns of mainstream religious people.  She was a professor of religion and women’s studies for two decades, an administrator at Harvard University, and a Fellow at The Center for Values in Public Life at the Harvard Divnity School.  Among her award-winning books are Journeys By Heart: a Christology of Erotic Power and Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us.  Her current book project, Saving Paradise, (forthcoming from Beacon Press in fall 2006) investigates early Christian ideas of paradise, the development of theologies of holy war and holy violence in Western Europe during the Crusades, the resulting invention of racism and genocide, the colonization of the Americas, and the contemporary need for a new understanding of paradise.