Sold Out … and good news …

I just got this note from Fr. Richard Rohr - about our gathering of 900 Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox Christians in Albuquerque in a few weeks:

We are now sold out, but loads of people are begging for entry.... Maybe next year we will need to use the convention center!

Just so you know, next year (2010) we're aiming for April 9 - 11.
Good news - CAC is also offering a webcast of this year's conference for $50 registration fee: http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/conferences/emer/webcast.php.

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A truth commission in the USA?

Baptist theologian David Gushee says ... yes, we need one.
I hear similar calls from many of my friends around the world. Dr. Rene Padilla recently published this open letter to President Obama in the Journal of the Latin American Theological Fellowship. The article is reprinted with permission below the jump ...

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Truth Commission – Lessons from N. Ireland

My Irish friend Gareth Higgins - after a sad setback this week in Northern Ireland - commented on my brief post yesterday about a truth commission here in the US.
He is involved in a group called Healing Through Remembering in Northern Ireland that could provide examples and models for the US. The group offers a number of helpful reports here.

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On the economy …

The Center for Action and Contemplation (where I'll be with Richard Rohr, Phyllis Tickle, Shane Claiborne, Alexia Torres-Fleming, and others March 20-22) put up my recent piece on the economy here.

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The stats are in …

My sagely friend Brad Cecil just drew my attention to this article in USA Today.
More evidence that things must change one way ... or they'll change another.

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