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Subject: Lerner on C-Span-2 (book channel) at 4 p.m. EST, Sunday, March 5

 

On Sunday, March 5 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern and 1 p.m. Pacific time, C-Span -2 (the Book Channel) will replay for the 4th time Rabbi Lerner's talk about his new national best-seller which has received powerful positive reviews in the LA Times and Washington Post.

 

His book:

 

THE LEFT HAND OF GOD: TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT.

 

Description: Rabbi Michael Lerner examines the psychological needs that underpin the growth of the Religious Right, and calls upon the Democratic Party, Greens, and other progressive social change movements to re-understand the spiritual needs of the American public and let go of the Left's deep hostility to all forms of spirituality and religion.

 

He presents a new theoretical framework for progressive politics--and in addition develops in his book a "Spiritual Covenant with America" that provides a very concrete direction for progressives forces to transform he dynamics of American politics (a plan that his new organization The Network of Spiritual Progressives intends to present to Congress and the public at their Spiritual Activism Conference May-17-20-details at www.spiritualprogressives.org).

 

Lerner's book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right was a national best-seller this past week, and is available in bookstores everywhere and on line at Amazon. com.

 

The event presented in C-Span-2 was hosted by American University in Washington, D.C. at the beginning of his current book tour, which will bring him to speak in the next few weeks in Portland Oregon, Miami, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Toronto, San Diego, Madison, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, and Amherst Massachusetts (details at Current Thinking section of www.tikkun.org).

 

Author Bio: Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun magazine (www.tikkun.org) author of 11 books, co-chair with Sister Joan Chittister and Cornel West of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (www.spiritualprogressives.org) and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue which holds services on both sides of the Bay (in San Francisco and Berkeley: www:beyttikkun.org).

 

He was described by Utne Reader as one of America's 100 most significant visionaries and by one reviewer as "America's most significant prophetic public intellectual."

 

 

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