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
Thank you to them foror volunteering a today i am the workshop chair for the eastival for adults and teens. And also of the author of the back seat. You havear the announcement silence all of your devices and we hope you are following us on facebook and twitter and instagram when you folk post about the festival please use gbs. Your v feedback is valuable so when you areen done with your time here please drop those offse by submitting a survey you will get a 100 visa gift card. Rob will be signing books immediately after the presentation and copies of the s book are on sale at the politics and prose book and a quick word about buying books , this is a free event but it does help if you buy books from the festival because the more books we can sell the more the Book Publishers want to sell one send them to talk to us but also helps to support one of the greatest independent bookstores around so if you can please buy a book so let me tell you about rob i know him because five years ago h
Divider which the police seem to be paying attention to. The shuttle bus apparently was just hit from the rear. There are several other car that are involved. At this point in time many of the marked cars have left and several new cars which are unmarked, investigated vehicles are on the scene. This has the 580 heading into oakland shut down, all the lanes. If you want to get on the 24 you will be able to do that but the back up is huge. If we can turn around here what we will do is show you the situation. The situation is that the cars are being diverted off to the left of your screen which would be going up on the 24, over toward the tunnel but nothing is coming through here nor is it likely to looking at the amount of investigation thats going on. We do not know if there were how many shots were fired, we certainly dont know if anyone was hit. We do know that there are no emergency vehicled on scene. We will have to keep checking things out and finding out what is going on. That is
Onto the main events we are lucky to have a guest with us this evening the writer contributing to the columbia journalism review. Her writing appeared over the place the new york times, Washington Post and huffingtonpost in her essay appeared in the anthology not that bad. You will be hearing about this one tonight but she also has a second book that is coming out in 2020s keeping a keep an eye r that one. What is happening to faith in america at the time when more than 70 of americans consider themselves christian of some sort yet many are decrying the loss of faith in the genre and investigation of the religion, relationships with division the country is facing. Let me just say that it is a very timely book. Without further ado, please help me welcome liz. [applause] can everybody hear me okay. Im used to doing midwestern events where there is always the one woman in the back like please talk louder and you are talking as loud as you want to. Then i heard cspan was going to be here,
He struck out his own name from the registration book. They crossed out their names and dropping out of the school. With the events that were rocking him. Remarkably the northern correspondent noticed them in the library and failed to make the connection between that statue in and the student noting the bust of john hed calhoun and leaves it at that. Many northerners king apparently included assumed that when africanamericans share of the last names of leading white southern families that they or their families have been owned. White southerners did little to disabuse this. The races can no more agree in the same classes in school and college of a the kid of the family. There is no telling how he would agree to this. The bonds of whiteness that connected him to complete strangers among the states caucasian population. They railed in a letter over quotes. And political power. In the wake of henry haynes enrollment. They tendered their resignations in protest. He put out a statement. Thi