Urban Lecture Series
Anne Lamott (Photo by Mark Richards)
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For the second installment in the Urban Lecture Series, “The Space Between,” hosts Center for Transforming Mission, Immanuel Presbyterian, Northwest Leadership Foundation, Pacific Lutheran University’s Center for Community Engagement and Service, St. Leo Parish and Urban Grace are proud to present author, Anne Lamott, for two lectures on Friday, February 24th, 7:30pm at Urban Grace (902 Market Street) and Saturday, February 25th, 7:30pm at St. Leo Parish (710 S. 13th) on the topic of Dual Citizenship: Living Faith in Time, Space and Eternity. Both lectures are free, but tickets are required. Sign up for your e-tickets below or pick up printed tickets at Immanuel Presbyterian’s church office (909 N. J Street, 9:30am-4pm, Monday-Friday).
The goal of the Urban Lecture Series is to model conversations that build bridges of understanding and redemptive action between faith communities and the public square. We do this on behalf of those who are most vulnerable. We recognize that our culture is organized to polarize and push us to the edges of important issues, leaving the center vacant. Edges are softened when centers are occupied with grace. This is our hope – to engage life’s most demanding questions and the people pushed to the edges, by finding centers that hold.
We deal with topics related to faith, ethics and public life. Our presenters are people who have demonstrated the ability to speak to life’s most demanding questions with grace, humor and prophetic insight.
Each lecture is unique in its structure based on the availability of the presenter(s), and the material. However, each lecture is designed to be a moveable feast involving catholic, protestant and other faith venues in the city as well as hosts who stand between traditions. The venues we select reflect our commitment to building bridges across the accidental and artificial divides the so easily separate us.
About Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels including, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart (the sequel to Rosie), as well as five bestselling books of nonfiction, Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son’s first year and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, a guide to writing and the challenges of a writer’s life, Traveling Mercies, a collection of autobiographical essays on faith, and Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has taught at UC Davis, as well as at writing conferences across the country. Lamott’s biweekly Salon Magazine “online diary,” Word by Word, was voted The Best of the Web by TIME magazine. Filmmaker Freida Mock (who won an Academy Award for her documentary on Maya Lin) has made a documentary on Lamott, entitled “Bird by Bird with Annie” (1999). Anne Lamott’s latest collection of essays is Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. Her most recent novel, entitled Imperfect Birds, was published in Spring 2010. In the Fall of 2010 Anne Lamott was inducted into the California Hall of Fame. Her next book of non-fiction, Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, will be released in Spring 2012. She is also working on an essay collection entitled As in Life: New and Selected Pieces, about moving through grief and loss.
About the Hosts
The Urban Lecture Series is hosted by a small group of faith communities and local organizations that are committed to seek peace in Tacoma.
- Center for Transforming Mission: Mobilizes people from all walks of life to love and serve the urban poor and make tangible Jesus’ vision in Luke 4:18-19 in ways that bring peace.
- Immanuel Presbyterian: Immanuel Presbyterian Church (IPC) is a Christian community where all are welcome. IPC is committed to the life of our city and acts out that commitment as it works with the arts community and works on behalf of those who are vulnerable and in need. We are a diverse community that values relationship and nourishes the heart and mind through music, silence, hands on mission and thoughtful reflection.
- Northwest Leadership Foundation: Exists to encourage, strengthen and develop leadership for the spiritual and social renewal of the city.
- PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service: Fosters a culture of community engagement among students, faculty and staff through reflective academic service learning, meaningful co-curricular service and mutually beneficial community partnerships.
- St. Leo Parish: A Jesuit parish in the Catholic tradition centered in the Eucharist, enriched by diversity, committed to Gospel values, seeking to be Christ’s servant presence in the world, wishing to welcome the gifts of all in our quest for peace, justice, and non-violence.
- Urban Grace Church: An ecumenical church in downtown Tacoma that serves the city and its people by proclaiming the Good News of God’s love, grace, and justice revealed in Jesus Christ.
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