Mar 6, 2024
Join us for an exclusive sneak peek of “Sign My Name to Freedom,” a feature documentary about iconic National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, her hidden life as a singer-songwriter, and her family’s experiences confronting Jim Crow-style segregation on the West Coast. Betty gained fame as the oldest Park Ranger in...
Mar 6, 2024
From the acclaimed author of Dog Whistle Politics, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America is an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future.
“Ian Haney López has broken...
Feb 8, 2024
Many American policy makers are squeamish about religion’s role in diplomacy. Nevertheless, religion plays a crucial and complex part in global affairs, such as in sustainable development, various human rights issues, and fomenting and mitigating conflict. Shaun A. Casey, the founding director of the US Department of...
Nov 29, 2023
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
November 15, 2023
Poet, speaker, and one of the UK’s foremost transgender theologians, Jay Hulme, joined us on a rare visit to the United States. Author of the viral poem ‘Jesus at the Gay Bar,’ Jay read from his new collection of poetry, The Vanishing Song; shared his vision of...
The Forum with Jerry Brown
Nov 6, 2023
Edmund G. Brown Jr. is the son of Governor Pat Brown and great-grandson of August Schuckman, a German immigrant who settled in California during the California Gold Rush. He is the longest serving governor in California history, first elected at 36 years old and again at 72. He has served as Secretary of State,...