We’re excited to announce that tomorrow, our May 22 session will feature special guest speakers! And Campaign's founder and president Justin Giboney will join Pastor
, the former co-host of And Campaign's Church Politics podcast and the director of Christian civic formation for the Center for Christianity & Public Life.This week’s video features our recording from our second session.
Please RSVP at our EventBrite page. We look forward to seeing you at each session.
Also, stay tuned for details on our final session, an in-person event on June 5 at 7 p.m. Justin Giboney, who will be in Chicago for the Lead the City conference the next day, will join us in person on the evening before Lead the City to help us round out our Civic Disciplines talks with a night you won’t want to miss.
We will also post clips from each night, which you’ll find in our Substack chat. You can join that chat now by downloading the Substack app below.
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