This year, Georgetown Ministry Center (GMC) marks 30 years of service to people experiencing homelessness in our community. In anticipation of its upcoming annual benefit, the Spirit of Georgetown, GMC invites you to a special Q&A conversation with author, journalist and host of the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown, Sally Quinn, and Leon Weiseltier, of Brookings Institute, writer, critic, philosopher and magazine editor.  They sit down to discuss her new book, Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir, touching upon the topics of spirituality and the ways our various faiths unite us all and shape our views on how to care for people who are less fortunate, as is GMC’s mission.

The event is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP on our Eventbrite page.

Tickets to the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown will be available for sale at the event. Copies of Sally’s book will be for sale and she will be available for book-signing after the Q&A.

About Leon Wieseltier: An American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor, Wieseltier served as the literary editor of The New Republic from 1983 to 2014. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic.

About Sally Quinn: A quintessential Washingtonian, Quinn is an author, television reporter, and journalist who has worked and socialized with the city’s movers and shakers for several decades. For Quinn, the thread tying together the varied facets of her life is spirituality. The creator and moderator of The Washington Post’s religious blog OnFaith.com, the most visited religious site on the web, Quinn focuses on the values and rituals that have given her life meaning.

About Spirit of Georgetown: The Spirit of Georgetown is Georgetown Ministry Center’s highly-anticipated annual benefit. Held every fall in a historic Georgetown home, GMC honors someone who has helped make its work to find solutions to homelessness possible. This year’s Spirit will be hosted by author, journalist and long-time Washingtonian, Sally Quinn, and will honor Mayor Muriel Bowser for her leadership on issues of homelessness.