I CAN RAVE ABOUT THE EVENTS i CAN ATTEND AND YOU CAN GET THEM ON LINE

MORE THAN EVER WE NEED AN INFORMED CITIZENRY.  And my former DC Free Culture will be included with my ranting and raving.
Hopefully you will take time to read my Rant that is included at the end of this listing.

Author talks

this week – 1/22 – 26

Thursday – Sunday

Politics and Prose - D. C. BOOKSTORE

Thursday – Steve Inskeep – Imperfect Union: How Jesse and John Fremont mapped the West, invented celebrity and helped cause the Civil War – 7 PM

Friday – Andrea Bernstein with interviewer Franklin Foer – American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps and the marriage of money and power – 7 PM

Saturday – James S. Gordan – The transformation: Discovering wholesomeness and healing after trauma – 1 PM

Saturday – James Mann – The great rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and the broken friendship that defined an era – 3:30 PM

Saturday – Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Kahn – Sexual Citizens: A landmark study of sex, power and assault - 6 PM

Sunday – Daniel H. Weiss and Peter Osnos –In that Time: Michael O'Donnell and the tragic era of Vietnam – 1 PM

Sunday –Franchon Jean Silberstein – Art in Sight: nderstandingart 

and why it matters – 5 PM

My church responds to taunts of homophobic and racist slurs as we celebrated the life of Dr Martin Luther King.

I wonder if they knew that All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in Washington DC with well over 1000 members is a beautiful composite picture of America with an emphasis on young people and young families representing people of all religious beliefs and creeds.

How could they be so disrespectful and ignorant of America's heritage as founding fathers and intellectual leaders from Jefferson to Emerson extolled the freedom of all Americans to freely worship according to their individual consciences.

How proud I am of being in a church that is representative of all America EVERY SUNDAY and has leadership that responded to the congregation with a letter including these two paragraphs:

“We were so moved by how our congregation responded to this hateful act. Hand-in hand, we walked out of the sanctuary and onto the front steps of the church singing "We Shall Overcome." Our loving songs drown out their hateful shouts.

One congregant said afterward that our collective action on Sunday embodied one of Dr. King's most important teachings: "Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

I hope that you will also read my next “Rant” that will tell of how this one church has such broad appeal that it alone among all the churches I have attended for 94 years is truly representative of the people of my country.