Bill Tammeus

11/5 to 11/7/2010
Fri 6:30 Dinner thru Sun Lunch
$335

When a few non-Jews risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust, they became models of sacrificial giving. Do their choices nearly 70 years ago have anything to teach us today? Bill Tammeus, a co-author of "They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust," believes there are profound lessons for our time and place, and he'll help retreat participants consider what those lessons might be. This new book from the University of Missouri Press tells about 20 compelling stories of Jewish survivors and the non-Jews who helped to save them. Then it offers a series of questions in a Readers' Guide about wthe meaning these stories might have for the moral choices we all face each day. The session will begin with a consideration of the role that theological anti-Judaism has played in Christian history and what connection that anti-Judaism has to modern antisemitism and the Holocaust.

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Bill Tammeus came to The Kansas City Star in 1970 as a  reporter, spent nearly 27 years as a columnist on the paper’s editorial page and then moved his column in March 2004 to the weekly Faith section. He took formal retirement July 1, 2006, but continued to write a weekly Faith column for the paper on a freelance basis until mid-November 2008. For 10 years his work was syndicated by the New York Times News Service, and for six by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Bill was a member of the Star staff that won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting. His many other awards include several from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the American Academy of Religion. He also received the 2005 Wilbur Award given each year to the best religion column in the country. He received the David Steele Distinguished Writer Award from the Presbyterian Writers Guild in 2003 and is the author of A Gift of Meaning, published by the University of Missouri Press in 2001.
Bill is past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He’s married to Marcia. They have six children and six grandchildren.  They reside in Kansas City, Missouri.

blog: http://billtammeus.typepad.com
My new book: www.theywerejustpeople.com

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