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 (Adult Forum is on hiatus until fall of 2010)

 

Forums are presentations and discussions of real issues of the times.  They are held on the first and third Sundays of each month at 9:15 am in the church library during the church year.  

  Forum Topics and Speakers Schedule                   Location and directions.                    Previous topics and speakers.                                                                                     

    

Adult Forum Schedule

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October 4

 

Keith Rhoden, Jr.

Video: Through My Eyes: Christian gay youth share their experience

October 18

 

George Rawitscher

Audio: From Speaking of Faith Series: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

November 1

 

Lois Maxwell

Audio: From Speaking of Faith Living Islam: Nine Muslims share their American experience  

November 15

 

George Rawitscher

Israeli/ Palestine Conflict: What Americans Can Do to End It DVD with Four American Statesman discussing the issue: Cater, Baker, Scowcroft and Brzezinski

December 6

 

Lois Maxwell

Does Science Conflict with Religion? Thoughtful Christian Adult Study

December 20

 

 

God, Mystics, Yoga: What Americans Believe: Parade Magazine Study on Spirituality  

January 3

 

 

Shi’ites and Sunnis- Rivalry in the Muslim Family: Thoughtful Christian Study

January 17

 

Al Benford—Guest Speaker

Civil Rights Talk: Letter from a Birmingham Jail : Benford is a Unitarian Universalist who was active during the Civil Rights Movement  

February 7

 

 Marla Ludwig—Guest Speaker  

Also known as the "Backpacking Grandmother." She will update us about the Bright Star school project in Dalive, Ghana.

February 21

George Rawitscher

 

Video: Bill Moyers Interview with Greg Mortensen Education as a Way to Peace in Afghanistan and the Islamic World  preview

 

March 7  

Lois Maxwell

God, Mystics, Yoga: What Americans Believe: Parade Magazine Study on Spirituality

(Previously scheduled for December 20 and cancelled due to snow.)

 

March 21

Paul Baker Hernandez

 

Paul Baker Hernandez

April 4

No Adult Forum: Easter

 

 

April18

Lois Maxwell

Death Penalty Debate Podcast: Audio from NPR’s Fresh Air. Terry Gross interviews Atty David Dow author of 20 Years of Defending Death Row Inmates. Pros and Cons of the Death Penalty.

May 2

 TBA

 

 TBA

May 16

Bob and Alice Evans

The Church In China

 

                                                                 This page was last updated on 07/26/2010.