The Abraham Path:
Retracing the Ancient Journey of Abraham
with special guests William Ury and Rick White
Thursday, April 30th
12:00pm to 1:30pm

The Abraham Path is a long-distance walking trail 1000 km across the Middle East retracing the ancient journey of Abraham.

The journey of Abraham is a collection of stories from a wide variety of scriptural and oral traditions, as well as scholarly sources. There is no evidence on the exact route of this journey. No scripture is detailed enough to recreate Abraham and his family’s specific path through the Middle East. More profoundly, there is no historic or archeological evidence that some 4,000 years ago, a man called Abraham existed. There is abundant evidence, however, that Abraham exists today in the memory and traditions of all people in the Middle East, and for billions of people outside the region. The path thus follows the anthropological Abraham, symbolically tracing the memory and wisdom of his journey across the Middle East.

City Club welcomes William Ury, Founder and Chairperson of the Abraham Path Initiative and Rick White, Board Member of the API. William and Rick will talk about the origins of the path, its development over the last ten years and how this thousand year project began here in Boulder. Rick will share his motivation, as a major partner in a Boulder based investment firm, to invest his time and treasure in the Path.

About the speakers:

William Ury is an author, walker and mediator. He is the founder of the Abraham Path Initiative and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project. William is the co-author of the global bestseller Getting to Yes and author of The Power of a Positive No. Over the last 35 years, he has mediated between quarreling corporate divisions, battling unions and management, and warring ethnic groups around the world.

Rick White is Managing Partner of Minot Capital LLC, a Boulder based investment firm. He also serves as member of the Board of Managers of Haverford College, his alma mater. Formerly, Rick served as the Vice Chairman and founding board member of the Landmine Survivors Network, a co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Peace.

$25 City Club Members and their guests
$30 Visitors/Non Members
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