An Evening with Sister Simone: Hunger for Hope

Name: An Evening with Sister Simone: Hunger for Hope
Start: 2024-07-25T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Schedule

Thu Jul 25 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Midtown Scholar Bookstore | Harrisburg, PA

The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is honored to welcome the 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom Winner Sister Simone Campbell for a public dialogue and conversation on hope, community, and her new book, Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, and the Common Good.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/936417609277
Registration is free but required for entry to this event. To enter the signing line, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Doors open at 6pm, and the event will begin at 7pm. Book signing to follow discussion. Copies of the book will be for sale at the event.
About the Book:
“Hunger for Hope is rich with Simone’s spiritual encounters with Christ . . . . The real-life engagements to which those encounters lead her couldn’t be shared with us at a better time.”—From the Foreword by Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, author of Dead Man Walking and River of Fire
One of the organizers of the "Nuns on the Bus" campaign shows how faith supports action in a world in great need of both. The chaotic individualism of these times demands a prayer practice that summons a prophetic response in community with those who are marginalized in our fractured economic system and broken world. Hunger for Hope explores the quest for a justice that works for all, and explores what it means to be “holy” in today’s world.
About the Author:
Simone Campbell, SSS, is the executive director of NETWORK, a nonprofit Catholic social justice lobby in Washington, DC. In 2012, Sister Simone organized NETWORK’s Nuns on the Bus campaign that has attracted an avalanche of media attention in the United States and other parts of the world. Sister Simone, a long-standing member of the Sisters of Social Service, became an attorney in 1978 and founded a community law center that served the legal needs of the working poor.