Wisdom to Know the Difference book reading:
Quaker blogger Eileen Flanagan (Imperfect Serenity) gives a reading from her new book The Wisdom to Know the Difference in the Big Blue Marble bookstore in Philadelphia’s Mt Airy section.
The morning after this talk Eileen wrote a post “Eight Things I’ve Learned (So Far) About Giving a Book Talk.”
Discussion over hors d’oeuvres, Eileen Flanagan book reading.
I wasn’t the only photographer! Eileen Flanagan book reading.
Preparing for the talk, Eileen Flanagan book reading.
A man who has written about and read spiritual books for decades… mentioned at the end of our hour-long conversation that most of the readers of his site and of spiritual books in general are women, yet most of the writers of such books are men. He was happy to help promote a female spiritual writer, pointing out a passage in my book about paying attention to our bodies and our dreams that he thought was a distinctly woman’s voice, though he immediately acknowledged men who have written about those topics, as well.
Recently, however, there has been an uncomfortable sense that God is calling us to make and advocate for changes more difficult and radical than adding solar panels or a green roof…. The willingness to confront both our own failings and the ways of the prevailing culture are among the qualities that have enabled Quakers to influence history out of proportion to our numbers.
