In 2022, the American Library Association (ALA) recorded the most attempted book bans ever during its history of tracking censorship. Many of these books have LGBTQ, racial inequality and gender or sexual identity content.
In the religious world, clergy folk work with what writers, psychologists and philosophers call “meta-narratives.” This is to say we speak of a large, eternal story in which our smaller, personal story resides.
Meyers, who has been a minister at the Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for 35 years, will be the headliner for the Common Ministry at Washington State University’s 39th Roger Williams Symposium in Pullman.