intersections: Meeting Rabbi Lerner

February 21, 2006

Meeting Rabbi Lerner

Yesterday I had the privilege of hearing Rabbi Michael Lerner speak to a small group that gathered at a bookstore in West Hollywood. There may have been 20 of us packed into this small space. He spoke passionately about his book and the Network for Spiritual Progressives for nearly an hour. As he signed my book I told him I was a pastor in Hollywood and we spoke about ways in which Adventists have a natural affinity to the things he's talking about, separation of church and state, anti-militarism, peace, a society characterized by love and generosity rather than fear and control. I'm going to be blogging chapter by chapter through the Left Hand of God, so if you want, you can read along with me and comment and share what you're learning. Come on...you know you want to!

I also saw a documentary film that I've been really anxious to watch - Eugene Jarecki's, "Why We Fight". It was really outstanding. In LA it's playing on Sunset in West Hollywood, Pasadena and Santa Monica. If you're outside a major metropolitan area you probably can't find a theater that is showing it. But when it comes out of DVD you need to see this. I'll be writing more about this film in the near future.

07:07 AM in Movies, Politics, Religion, Spiritual Progressives | Permalink

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It will come as a shock to many that God has a left hand! Evidently many Christians have an unconscious image of a one-handed God. Time to dust off "Your God is Too Small" again.

Posted by: Monte Sahlin | February 22, 2006 at 07:35 AM

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.