Let King Be King

Over the past 12 years The Faith & Politics Institute has been honored and blessed in coming to know and experience the power and faith of Reverend Shuttlesworth. We both mourn his passing and celebrate his life.

Reverend Doug Tanner, a co-founder of The Faith & Politics and currently a Senior Advisor, offers this reflection: (click link to continue reading...)

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Contact: Joanna Pumple at joanna@faithandpolitics.org

The Faith & Politics Institute Remembers Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth
Mourns His Passing, Celebrates His Life

Sponsored by The Faith & Politics Institute, The United States Institute of Peace, and The Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life.

This event will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.

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This years Walter Capps-Bill Emerson Memorial Lecturer is Thich Nhat Hanh. He is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk.

About our Speaker:

Providence shined grace upon us as we were led on tours of the Congressional Cemetery. The Faith & Politics Institute worked with the Cemetery to put on a tour of civil rights heroes from throughout America’s history. Ranging from women’s rights workers to abolitionists to Native American rights’ advocates to gay rights in the military, the evening’s tours were engaging and experiential as we walked from gravesite to gravesite.

Providence shined grace upon us as we were led on tours of the Congressional Cemetery. The Faith & Politics Institute worked with the Cemetery to put on a tour of civil rights heroes from throughout America’s history. Ranging from women’s rights workers to abolitionists to Native American rights’ advocates to gay rights in the military, the evening’s tours were engaging and experiential as we walked from gravesite to gravesite.

Capitol Hill is locked in partisan gridlock.

The democratic process, historically dependent on lively politics discourse, has become stymied with harshness, anger, and intransigence. Fear, loathing, and outrage have become the common currency within the Beltway.

Civility: For the Next Decade

Sponsored by The Faith & Politics Institute and The Walter W. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life

Rayburn B369 HOB

The American system of pluralism offers rich variety of thought as well as strong opinions. As we approach 2010, the topics which seem to divide us will continue to present significant challenges to our discourse.

In March of 2007, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth participated in an annual commemoration of the Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama. He was not the only dignitary in attendance; among other civil rights legends, members of Congress, and prominent religious leaders were then-Senator Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. Upon meeting Shuttlesworth, the future President Obama grasped the handles of the Birmingham legend's wheelchair and personally escorted him to the Edmund Pettus Bridge. There, Clinton crouched down to speak with the leader. The moment, though fleeting, was a striking image of past, present, and future in national leadership and racial reconciliation.