Over 1,600 Expected at Politics, Spirituality Conference

WASHINGTON – Over 1,600 people from across the nation are expected to gather on Jan. 14 at the nation's capital where three renowned speakers will be creating a live forum to discuss the vital connection between politics and spirituality.

With closed registration and a full waiting list, the Albuquerque, N.M.-based Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) and Washington, D.C.-based Sojourners are less than a week away from holding their three-day conference, "Politics and Spirituality: Seeking a Public Integrity."

"We sense that the country is hungry to replace a politics of blame and fear with a politics of solutions and hope," said a CAC released statement.

Featured speakers for the gathering are Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; Anne Lamott, speaker of alcoholism, motherhood and Jesus and author of Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith; and Fr. Richard Rohr, a Franciscan of the New Mexico Province and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation.

Registered participants will spend the upcoming weekend in prayer, discussions and worship with a concluding public Prayer Walk and Witness at the U.S. Capitol scheduled for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

"The conference is timely for a nation torn and divided by political strife and yet somehow seeking the Beloved Community uplifted by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr," said a statement by Sojourners.

While the January conference is sold out, the same conference will also be offered in September 2006 in Pasadena, Calif.

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