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“Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer” with author Donn Mitchell (MOVED ONLINE DUE TO WINTER STORM)
Due to winter weather, our event with Donn Mitchell, author of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer, has been moved online.
Please join us on Sunday, February 22 at 3 pm via Zoom or YouTube.
(Those who wish to participate in Q&A should please use the Zoom option.)
St. James’ Episcopal Church and the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill welcome
Donn Mitchell
author of
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer
(new from Morehouse Publishing)
Reading, Presentation, and Q&A
Sunday, February 22 at 3 pm
Online only due to winter storm. Please join us on Zoom or on St. James’ YouTube Channel. Those who wish to participate in the Q&A portion, please use Zoom.
Reception and book-signing in the Parish Hall are canceled.
About the Book
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer uncovers how Eleanor Roosevelt’s faith—shaped in part at St. James’ Episcopal Church—served as a wellspring for her courage, compassion, and moral clarity. Her tireless work for racial equality, refugee protection, women’s and workers’ rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all bear the imprint of a woman whose belief in justice was inseparable from her belief in God.
“No account of the extraordinary life and achievements of Eleanor Roosevelt is complete without attention to the ways her deep Christian faith affected every aspect of her public and private life. Yet most of her biographers have followed the trend of political historians to minimize the role of religion in the lives of their subjects. Now, thanks to this richly sourced spiritual biography by Donn Mitchell, no one will be able to make that mistake again.”
— Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See
