Join GPMC friends in reading Jon Meacham’s insightful book American Gospel and then join Rev. Susan d’Olive Mozena during Middle Hour (10:10 – 10:50 am) on October 20, 27 and November 10 in discussing the main points of his brilliant history of the interplay of faith, both public and private, in the founding of our nation and in the ongoing history of our democracy.
In Professor Meacham’s own words, from the book’s Introduction: The great good news about America-the American gospel, if you will-is that religion shapes the life of the nation without strangling it. Belief in God is central to the country’s experience, yet for the broad center, faith is a matter of choice, not coercion, and the legacy of the Founding is that the sensible center holds. It does so because the Founders believed themselves at work in the service of both God and man, not just one or the other.
Read the book! Join the conversation! If you don’t have time to finish the book, come to Middle Hour anyway.