At the top of the page. So now on to the main event. Were very lucky to have a guest with us this morning, lyz lenz, the writer currently contributing to columbia journalism review. Her writing has appeared all over the place, and her essay all the angry women appeared in [inaudible] not that bad. She also has a second book called belabored which is coming out in 2020. In god land, lyz lenz asks the question what is happening to faith in america. At a time when more than 70 of americans consider themselves christians, yet many religious leaders are decrying a loss of faith, the relationships and division our countrys facing. Let me just say that its a very timely book. And without further ato do, please help ado, please help me welcome lyz lenz. [applause] hi. Can everybody hear me okay . Im used to doing, like, midwestern events where theres always the one woman in the back with, shes like, please, talk louder. Youre like, im talking as loud as i want to, ethel. [laughter] so when i h
Welcoming billin dinges. [applause] doctor dinges ok, thank you. Good evening, everyone. , anddelighted to be here im delighted you are here on muggy, welcome, to washington, d. C. In august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Up anoriginally conjured image of rough water everson. Ralph waldo emerson. I doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband. I looked at it a while and came to the conclusion this would probably verge on sacrilege. Thisad, i am starting with particular image in the title. Woodstock, pond to the transcendental and roots transcendentalist roots of the 1960s counterculture. I am going to share with you some thoughts this evening and some ideas about a mid19th century american religious, philosophical, and Literary Movement known as transcendentalism. And, its connections with socially,ture that culturally, politically generation gap. The age of aquarius, make love, not war, times they are a changing. Turn on, tune, in, drop out. Sex, drugs, rock
Let me just say that its a very timely book. And without further ato do, please help ado, please help me welcome lyz lenz. [applause] hi. Can everybody hear me okay . Im used to doing, like, midwestern events where theres always the one woman in the back with, shes like, please, talk louder. Youre like, im talking as loud as i want to, ethel. [laughter] so when i heard cspan was going to be here, they were, like, do you have any questions . And i said [inaudible] cspan encourages shorts, but i felt after that reply that i had to. The i want to also just acknowledge the shirt i wore specifically for you, washington d. C. It says, iowa for some reason you have to come here to be president. [laughter] sucks. So is i wanted to just tell you the origin story of the book, because this is a book about religion, and you dont really want to, like, just hear me read from a book about religion. If you wanted to do that, you could go to christmas dinner with your grandma. She misses you. So i want
Considered the beginning of the American Revolution. It would be another couple of years before we declare our in 1776. Nce it was first thought to be just a massachusetts issue, it was quickly found out to be more than just massachusetts as time would tell. Christie jackson the old man is really a house of two revolutions it stood in the American Revolution, through its windows down the hill and later the second American Revolution, intellectualism and thought. A charming house, with so many discoveries. Every week i am finding new graffiti, a similar object in the corner. It keeps on giving in a way that i have never seen in my career so it is a house full of places , to be discovered and for inspiration as well. 1760 byuilt around William Everson and his family, one of the first occupants of the house and a minister. William emerson is the grandfather of the emerson, the writer we know and love. He and his wife phoebe had several children, the last of which was born only 10 days bef
Women. Here we are in concorde, massachusetts, where the redcoats marched into the northbridge on april 19, 1775, starting the american revolution. This house, eventually much later than that becomes the home of Amos Bronson Alcott and his family. One of the daughters, Louisa May Alcott, in this house, writes a book the changes a lot of the way people think about children, the way they think about young women and mature women. It was a very progressive book for its day and in many ways today it still remains this because it is just a simple true to life story of four young women and their parents. Mister alcott was an educator in the early days. A very progressive thinker who was deeply in love with Mister Alcott. They were in boston when Mister Alcott met Ralph Waldo Emerson and struck up a deep friendship. He was well ensconced, he thought Bronson Alcott belongs here and the town had Something Special to offer, a Political Revolution in 1775 and a literary revolution in the 1800s but