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Second Saturday Conversation – March 8, 2025
March 8 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Free
Excuse Me? Interrupting on Behalf of Justice.
On Second Saturday Conversation March 8, 2025, we are honored to have with us Robin Meyers. The Rev. Dr. Robin Meyers. Robin is a peace activist (is that a dated term? I hope not), philosopher, pastor, professor, civil rights leader, educator, author, public voice. He is also a fellow of the Westar Institute whose mission is to raise biblical and religious literacy. Robin self describes as offering a non-literal, non-dogmatic, profoundly subversive and counter-cultural understanding of what it means to follow Jesus. Robin speaks with provocative clarity and challenging forthrightness as we see in some of his book titles: Saving Jesus from the Church, Spiritual Defiance, Saving God from Religion.
Marcus always spoke highly and admiringly of Robin and his work. He urged me to pay attention to what Robin was doing and would be doing in the future.
Marcus died in 2015. Some traditions consider remembrances on the tenth death anniversary year particularly important. Having Robin with us is part of the tenth year remembrance of Marcus’s work and spirit. Marcus is no longer here. But Robin is. He continues life work that was Marcus’s life work as well.
Robin suggested this title for our session together: Excuse Me? Interrupting on Behalf of Justice. Here is how he describes possibilities for our conversation together:
“One of the principal roles of prophetic rhetoric is to interrupt on behalf of the unconditionality of justice. There are times when we can wait out what is happening around us and times when—because we are running out of time—we must interrupt. Jesus was a cosmic interruption. Prophets interrupt with their impatient urgency. Ordinary people can also interrupt, with their bodies, as well as with their words, by refusing to be in compliance with what the Bible calls ‘the principalities and the powers.’ We are living in a moment when the good, the true, and the just are being disassembled right before our eyes. Can I get an ‘excuse me?'”
Please join us for Second Saturday Conversation March 8, 2025 with special guest Robin Meyers. All of our gatherings are free. But you must RSVP to receive a link to the session. You will receive a link the day before and morning of March 8. We meet from 9:30-11:00 am pacific time.
In advance, thank you Robin for being part of this tenth year remembrance of Marcus and his work. And for the way you voice and embody the call to do Justice, love kindness, walk humbly and to do so boldly.
Look forward to being with you March 8.