"More Together Than Alone" Book Study

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Wednesday Evenings via Zoom
August 4-September 15, 2021
6:30 to 8:00 pm

Offered on a Love Offering Basis

I am looking forward to reading Mark Nepo's book "More Together Than Alone" with you and meeting online to discuss it! It will be a great way to connect with each other and deepen our understanding of this inspiring book (we will also be looking at it during Sunday Services).

Joyfully,
Rev. Patty


ABOUT THE BOOK:
 
This book is a beautifully written and timely book – After twelve years of research, New York Times bestselling author Mark Nepo has gathered stories and lessons of community from across cultures and history, with the aim of affirming that, despite the hardships always present, we are more together than alone. 

With the heart of a poet and the eye of a philosopher, Nepo leads the reader through a spirited mapping of case studies centered on how human beings find each other and work together.  The result is a profile of social experiments that inquire into the dynamics of relationship and community that arise out of how we're inspired and forced to care for each other.  While some moments of community were long-standing and multi-generational, others may have lasted a week or an hour.  The focus of this book is to uncover the pathways that bring us together. 

Of the book, Nepo says, "Why tend to all this? Because somewhere another child is being born who will ask us things we don't yet know, and we must have some sense of how to account for our time on Earth.  Ours is a complicated era and so we need every resource and example of heart and resilience we can find.  It is both comforting and challenging to realize that no one person can wrestle from the Earth the song of how we can survive together and no one voice can sing that chorus.  The stories of community in this book help us accept and inhabit the spiritual fact that we need each other more than ever." 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

With over a million copies sold, Mark Nepo has moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening.  Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." His work is widely accessible and used by many and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages.  A bestselling author, he has published twenty-two books and recorded fifteen audio projects.  In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation.  In 2016, he was named by Watkins: Mind Body Spirit as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People, and was also chosen as one of OWN's SuperSoul 100, a group of inspired leaders using their gifts and voices to elevate humanity.  And In 2017 Mark became a regular columnist for Spirituality & Health Magazine.

When
August 4th, 2021 from  6:30 PM to  8:00 PM
Love Offering
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