I Beg to Differ!: Engaged in the Struggle for Justice and Peace

By Donald A. Gall

I Beg to Differ! is a first-hand account of one mans engagement with the issues of his day in a nation divided by racial injustice, an unpopular war, and the clamoring of people everywhere for freedom and equal rights. Beginning with the Freedom Rides in 1961, the author traces his moral and political awakenings to the evils of racial segregation, the quagmire of Vietnam, and the liberation efforts of groups like women, homosexuals, native Americans and migrant farm workers. After a final chapter entitled "Deja Vu and the Age of Obama," he concludes with a discussion on the importance of moral reasoning as an essential step to our finding the "common ground" needed to resolve our religious, social and political differences. As an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, Gall finds within the official pronouncements of his own denomination the kind of enlightened and courageous leadership needed for him to step up and break "the sin of silence" on such controversial issues as a womans right to abortion, the accepted ordination of gays and lesbians, same-gender marriage, and a host of other vexing and controversial issues still facing many of us today. I Beg to Differ! is an incisive look into many of the issues that defined the latter half of the Twentieth Century and that continue to challenge our religious and moral sensibilities today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432747711
• ISBN13: 9781432747718
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"