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Join us Saturday, November 8 at 10 am for Tillamook County’s version of “Civic Saturdays” with Jim Heffernan hosting. The sermons explore new and better ways to be a citizen. They are aimed at developing “citizenship muscle. We will need “muscle” to bring power back to “We the People”, where it belongs. Each sermon functions as a stand-alone sermon. Don’t worry about missing earlier sessions.
This week’s sermon, number 19 of 19, is “Reading Our Country” and is 38 minutes long. Eric Liu finishes the series talking about reading as a way to understand ourselves and our country. He talks about four works that he found instructive and that explore corners of history we tend to gloss over and ignore. He does not stray from his central point, that if we are to heal our politics, we need to do it ourselves with an amalgam of hope, optimism, and love, especially love. He closes out his book with this line, “Look at one another for a spell. Read each other’s eyes and, through them, see what our country can be.”
We can talk about the sermon afterwards, or not.
Sermon was first given on August 4, 2018, but, sadly, little has changed in the last seven years. I think what he has to say applies to 2025 maybe more than it did 2018.
Zoom link below
Invite link for Saturday 10 AM
us06web.zoom.us/j/88905106346?pwd=TEaw5qfSN2X5UoxBHgZSF7UsqwMugD.1
Recordings are available for those who are unable to attend the zoom. Contact me at codger817@gmail.com and I’ll e-mail one to you. Recordings also available for earlier sessions.
This week’s sermon, number 19 of 19, is “Reading Our Country” and is 38 minutes long. Eric Liu finishes the series talking about reading as a way to understand ourselves and our country. He talks about four works that he found instructive and that explore corners of history we tend to gloss over and ignore. He does not stray from his central point, that if we are to heal our politics, we need to do it ourselves with an amalgam of hope, optimism, and love, especially love. He closes out his book with this line, “Look at one another for a spell. Read each other’s eyes and, through them, see what our country can be.”
We can talk about the sermon afterwards, or not.
Sermon was first given on August 4, 2018, but, sadly, little has changed in the last seven years. I think what he has to say applies to 2025 maybe more than it did 2018.
Zoom link below
Invite link for Saturday 10 AM
us06web.zoom.us/j/88905106346?pwd=TEaw5qfSN2X5UoxBHgZSF7UsqwMugD.1
Recordings are available for those who are unable to attend the zoom. Contact me at codger817@gmail.com and I’ll e-mail one to you. Recordings also available for earlier sessions.
