Book Study: The Life You Save May Be Your Own

 The Life You Save May Be Your Own, A Book Study
Wednesdays from 7:00 - 8:00pm at All Souls Bethlehem, 566 East 7th Street  April 23rd to May 28th 
Join us for a six week book study of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, by Paul Eli (http://www.amazon.com/Life-You-Save-May-Your/dp/0374529213), a four-part biography of Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy and Dorothy Day.  These four deeply creative and spiritual writers will be explored as four archetypal artists active within every creative person (with Merton as “Mystic,” Day as “Activist-Artist,” Percy as “Scientist-Artist,” and O’Connor as “Introspective-Artist”).  How are these four archetypal energies active in your creative process and how might you nurture their further development to enhance your creativity? Because this book was recently featured on the NPR’s “On Being” (http://www.onbeing.org/program/faith-fired-literature/transcript/912), new copies are currently out of print.  But used copies are widely available online.
 Facilitator: photographer-minister-activist Rev. Tom Martinez serves All Souls Bethlehem Church (www.allsoulsbethlehem.org), a funky little house church in Kensington open to the World Religions.   Rev. Martinez has masters degrees in counseling and theology and spent a decade as a therapist and emergency mental health professional in Seattle prior to coming to NYC to pursue a career in the ministry.  His work focuses on the sacred nature of the creative process.  For more information contact: Rev. Tom Martineztomnmartinez@gmail.comwww.witnessphotography.4ormat.comwww.allsoulsbethlehem.org(718) 915-2600