Heavenly. Unique events and characters with love, danger, excitement, poetry and holiness. Well, this is the archdiocese of san francisco. Join us, learning all about the riches of christmas. Good morning and welcome. I want our guest here today. Laura joining me. We know each other. He worked with the archdiocese. The directive which is. There is. And you would be called a liturgist. A theologian sort of a historian. You are very well versed. They depend on you to make sure that our ceremonies are proper and correct. Absolutely. We are talking today about christmas. Youve created a slideshow for us. Our point here today is that christmas is full of riches. If you are willing to slow down you enter into a wonderful set of stories. So, how should we start this . Well, i think you talked about earlier that its not just one day. Well, this is by the end of it. It doesnt start 12 days before christmas. Then we go for 12 days. As i told you earlier, dead Christmas Trees are already on the c
This big puckture of john lewis was just put up here, rest in power. You cant see from the tv but over here in the front row is a big bouquet of white flowers. Its in the place where john usually sat in the front row of a section that many of the members of the congressional ack caucus held forth, conspired sometimes, plotted, and made progress for the American People. Its appropriate that we have those flowers there. Where john sat. For so many years. John meacham who is writing a book on john lewis told us yesterday on a caucus call that when john was born he was born into a garden. He loved to be in the garden. He loved to be with the chicks, as we know, little chickens. And he loved to see things grow. Loved to see things grow. And he lived his life in that way. He loved to see progress grow, he loved to see love and peace grow. He loved to see ideas grow. And he loved to see a more Perfect Union grow. Many of our colleagues will have many things to say this evening and because of
Over here in the front row is a big bouquet of white flowers. Its in the place where john usually sat in the front row of a section that many of the members of the congressional ack caucus held forth, conspired sometimes, plotted, and made progress for the American People. Its appropriate that we have those flowers there. Where john sat. For so many years. John meacham who is writing a book on john lewis told us yesterday on a caucus call that when john was born he was born into a garden. He loved to be in the garden. He loved to be with the chicks, as we know, little chickens. And he loved to see things grow. Loved to see things grow. And he lived his life in that way. He loved to see progress grow, he loved to see love and peace grow. He loved to see ideas grow. And he loved to see a more Perfect Union grow. Many of our colleagues will have many things to say this evening and because of the because its the personal order i dont have my usual one minute which is endless so ill be brie
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It is an honor to be asked questions about him will be doing this for an hour or maybe a little longer and if you have questions want to send in, you will see a q a box at the bottom right of your screen and you can send a question the latter part of this event, alex will answer some of those. To start us off, alex is as im sure many of you know, the Research Director Great Program on extremism at George Washington university which has become a go to resource for many people letting this topic. So why dont we start by asking argue take an interest on this and maybe you can fill us in a little bit on your background explain that. Think you for doing this. We been in touch over the years with shared interest in her article the 2000 the last decade with incredibly, it is my pleasure drinkers. Came across my radar around 2007 i just started as a researcher looking at activism into the uk in particular. As i was getting to know if the individuals and the networks in the uk, this name kept c