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Fw: On God's Side: Livestream with Jim Wallis examining "the Common Good" - 3 September

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From: Gemma Curran - LICC

Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 4:51 PM

Subject: On God's Side: Livestream with Jim Wallis examining "the Common Good" - 3 September

Watch Jim Wallis live online on 3 September as he explores "the Common Good". Register now!

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Join New York Times best-selling author Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, on 3 September as he encourages us on how we might reclaim the ancient and compelling vision of the common good.

Watch live video from this special event where Jim will explore "The Common Good" - a vision not just of looking after ourselves and our nearest and dearest, but of really understanding that we are our neighbours' keeper.

The foundation is Jesus' call to love our neighbour as ourselves. What does it mean not just to care about our own family's interests, but to care about other people's interests as much as our own. That's the common good. That's the standard. Seeking the common good isn't always easy, and sometimes it's not even clear how to practically live it out - but we need to have that discussion, that debate, that civil discourse about what the common good really might be. No matter what our politics; Left, Right, Centre or something else - what's right and what works is more and important than what's Left and what's Right.