This monthly service includes Chalice Lighting, Hymns, guest music and an very interesting guest speaker – Julian Adorney. Julian Adorney is the founder of Heal the West, a Substack movement dedicated to preserving and repairing our liberal social contract. https://healthewest.substack.com/ .
Julian is also a contributor to Reality’s Last Stand. On his vision, he writes, “The North Star of my life is to heal the West. I perceive 3 existential threats: left-wing illiberalism, right-wing illiberalism, and toxic polarization.”
Have you been caught trying to prepare or deliver a short elevator speech, that lets others know what is the problem with the current ideological focus in many of our social institutions? If this describes your experience some days, you likely will really appreciate and learn from Susan Neiman’s new book – Woke is Not Left
The book is described on Amazon as;
“If you’re woke, you’re left. If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.
The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to stand with the oppressed and marginalized, to address historic crimes. But those emotions are undermined by widespread philosophical assumptions with reactionary sources. As a result, wokeism conflicts with ideas that have guided the left for more than 200 years: a commitment to universalism, a firm distinction between justice and power, and a belief in the possibility of progress. Without these ideas, the woke will continue to undermine their own goals and drift, inexorably and unintentionally, towards the right.”
If your reading list is too long and if you don’t get enough exercise, I suggest you download this CBC Ideas podcast that features Neiman and listen to Susan as you go for a walk!
This Issue of the Liberal Beacon introduces the Beacon’s new editor John Griffin.
It features extensive details about the upcoming NAUA Summit to be held Oct. 17-20 in Spokane and online via Zoom. Besides details of the Summit, this issue features short bios of the NAUA members who have been nominated for the Board and a draft of the proposed NAUA Bylaws to be discussed and voted upon.