Continuing Discussions: Healing the Heart of Democracy
Wednesdays, 12:30pm
|Covenant Presbyterian Church
The Healing the Heart of Democracy Reading Group continues to meet on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall and via Zoom. We are discussing "Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America: A Guide to Reclaiming the Good News of God’s Grace" by Ted Foote and Alex Thornburg.
Time & Location
Wednesdays, 12:30pm
Covenant Presbyterian Church, 670 E Meadow Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
About the event
The Healing the Heart of Democracy Reading Group continues to meet on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall and via Zoom.
Follow-up discussions were sparked by our Book Study of Parker Palmer’s book Healing the Heart of Democracy, and current events.
We begin each session with a brief devotional from Floyd Thompkin’s book Nobody Told Me that the Road Would Be Easy.
We then go on to discuss Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America: A Guide to Reclaiming the Good News of God’s Grace by Ted Foote and Alex Thornburg.
"Dysvangelical names a theology that is distorted, dysfunctional, and dystopian, twisting the good news of God’s grace into a message of fear, partisanship, and exclusion.
In Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America, the authors speak directly to Presbyterians who are disillusioned and confused by how Christianity is being misused in American culture. With clarity, compassion, and a touch of humor, Being Presbyterian…