Sharon Watkins new book Whole: A Call to Unity in Our Fragmented World is now available for pre-order: chalicepress/Whole-P1437C15.aspx Dr. Watkins is an important voice for our times! Heres a short bio: Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins serves as General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada. The first female to lead a mainline denomination in North America, she recently was featured as one of the 50 Powerful Women Religious Leaders to Celebrate by The Huffington Post. She serves on the National Council of Churchs governing board, based in New York City. In 2014 she serves as Moderator-Elect for that board. Dr. Watkins also is a board member of Sojourners, a Washington, D.C.-based group which seeks to build a movement that puts faith to work for justice. At the invitation of then President-Elect Barack Obama, Dr. Watkins preached at the National Prayer Service in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2009, the day after his first inauguration. She also served on President Obamas Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and offered the call to worship at the Presidents second National Prayer Service in 2013.
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