Faith in a Time of Monsters
Saturday, September 6, 2025, 1800 - 2100
As our nation is experiencing great turmoil and division, faith institutions have a unique role to play in healing our national rupture. Valley and Mountain Fellowship--a progressive faith community--is committed to helping create a more just world. To this end, we have invited noted public intellectual Cornel West to share his wisdom with our community. The event is a fundraiser for the continued work of the Center for Faith, Art, and Justice which launched 2023, Through the Center for Faith, Art, and Justice, we have trained communities in nonviolence and supported social movements throughout the country.
Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects - including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music.
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
The Center for Faith, Art, And Justice is a "base of bases" where people of different ages, ethnicities, cultures, orientations, socio-economic backgrounds, and religious and spiritual affiliations/practices (or none at all) are called into relationship through a commitment to social justice, organizing, creativity and the arts, skill-building across the life-cycle, and building a just society. Your partnership, collaboration, and funds in this early stage are crucial to develop this Center; to cultivate a context and an environment that can nurture and inspire the next generation of artists, organizers, faith leaders and faith organizations; those who understand the arts not simply as the pursuit of the aesthetic, but as a vehicle and a means for social, and, often, spiritual, transformation, broadly and deeply construed.
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Category: Attractions | Talks and Lectures
Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects - including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music.
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
The Center for Faith, Art, And Justice is a "base of bases" where people of different ages, ethnicities, cultures, orientations, socio-economic backgrounds, and religious and spiritual affiliations/practices (or none at all) are called into relationship through a commitment to social justice, organizing, creativity and the arts, skill-building across the life-cycle, and building a just society. Your partnership, collaboration, and funds in this early stage are crucial to develop this Center; to cultivate a context and an environment that can nurture and inspire the next generation of artists, organizers, faith leaders and faith organizations; those who understand the arts not simply as the pursuit of the aesthetic, but as a vehicle and a means for social, and, often, spiritual, transformation, broadly and deeply construed.
URL:
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3188800-2?pid=2874
Category: Attractions | Talks and Lectures
Starting Price Per Person
$ 35.00 USD
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Where
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle Washington 98101
United States
( Cultural Center )
1119 8th Avenue
Seattle Washington 98101
United States
( Cultural Center )
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