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Herbert Anderson previews upcoming book 
at Presbyterian Men’s lunch
14-June-2001
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Herbert Anderson previews upcoming book 
at Presbyterian Men’s lunch
 
by Sue Boardman

LOUISVILLE, June 14 — Robert Wilson, president of the National Council
of Presbyterian Men welcomed guests to Thursday’s luncheon, held
during the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in
Louisville, Ky. The gathered group applauded when Wilson announced that the
Executive Board expects to have over 200 chartered congregations in 2001,
the highest figure in the last decade.

	The program included Michael Purintun’s solo offering of the
Lord’s Prayer, introductions of national staff members and
distinguished guests and an engaging presentation by the Rev. Herbert
Anderson, introduced by Curtis Miller, General Assembly Associate for
Men’s Ministry as “a Lutheran pastor who taught at a Catholic
school and writes books for Presbyterians.” One of those books, Living
Alone, was co-authored with Freda Gardner, moderator of the 211th General
Assembly.

	Leaving the podium and speaking casually with participants, Anderson
described his upcoming book, tentatively titled The Dangerous Journey: Men
on the Way to Faithfulness, as an exploration of “new ways of being
men that take into account new understandings of gender without undermining
the spirit of men.”

	Reflecting on the personal journey he’s experienced in writing the
book, Anderson spoke of two recent events which helped lead him to the claim
that “Justice is not so much something we achieve as something we
discover.”

	“I became a grandfather for the first time in 1998,” Anderson
said.  “I now look for a world in which each is free to choose which
gifts to actualize and which dreams to choose.  Therefore, I work for a
peaceable world.”

	Then, in 1999, Anderson learned that he had prostate cancer. “Now
that that diagnosis is part of the permanent reality of my life,” he
said, “it shapes how I think about being a man.”

	Based in the Biblical story of Jacob and written out of the commitment that
human beings are all subject to being wounded, Anderson’s book is due
out in the fall of 2001 and will serve as a study resource for the
Presbyterian Men. “We men,” Anderson concluded, “have a
new freedom to discover ways of being men without old scripts.”

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