invitation to spiritual activism conference

  spiritual activism

founding conference: July 20-23, 2005, Berkeley, CA

 

Dear Friend,

You are invited to a gathering that will transform American politics.

There’s a real spiritual crisis in American society. The liberal and progressive forces have been tone-deaf to this crisis, and that has made it easier for the Right to triumph politically. We believe it is time to build a Network of Spiritual Progressives so that we can provide a coherent alternative vision.

You are invited to stop the Religious Right from exploiting God and "moral values" to justify militarism and bigotry; from packing the courts with extremists who question the validity of the First Amendment; from degrading the lives of gays and lesbians and from rolling back the reproductive rights of women. Join the Network of Spiritual Progressives and come to our founding conference.

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM CONFERENCE.

The Conference is our first step in building a Network of Spiritual Progressives that will challenge the growing reactionary movement in America and will revitalize the voices for peace, human rights, love and compassion. Our goal is to:

• Stop the appropriation of God by the Religious Right.
• Bring a spiritual consciousness to progressive movements.
• Develop a New Bottom Line that champions love, caring, social justice

and ecological sanity over money and power.

We want you to be a part of this historic gathering. Please register, and send this letter to your friends, family and community. Can’t come? Join the Network of Spiritual Progressives!

TO REGISTER: visit www.tikkun.org

Or call 510.528.6250

Speakers include: Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners and author of God’s Politics, former Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Riane Eisler, Joan Borysenko, Van Jones, David Korten, Michael Nagler, Sheikh Kabir Helminski, John Cobb, Arun Gandhi (grandson of the Mahatma), Carl Pope (chair of the Sierra Club), Welton Gaddy (chair, the Interfaith Alliance), Jeffrey Kuan, Rita Nakashimi Brock, Rabbi Rami Shapiro, Congresspeople Lynn Woolsey and Jim Moran, Ched Meyers, Osagyefu Uhura Sekou and more.

 

Sponsors include:

Tikkun Community, Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley,

Pacific School of Religion, Dragonfly Media, Buddhist Peace Fellowship,

Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, New Dimensions World Broadcasting, St. John’s Presbyterian Church