The Dignity of Difference -- Jonathan Sacks and Krista Tippit

This Sunday, Nov. 8 we'll hear On Being's Krista Tippett interview Jonathan Sacks. From the website, "Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and one of the world’s deep thinkers on religion in our age. He’s just released a new book, Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. In this intimate conversation with Krista, he speaks about how Jewish and other religious ideas can inform modern challenges. Rabbi Sacks says that the faithful can and must cultivate their own deepest truths — while finding God in the face of the stranger and the religious other."

Hear's the link if you want a preview: Click Me.

Please join us at 9:45. We're a fun and interesting group.

Wendell Berry on Our Future

Last week we heard Bill Moyers interview Karen Armstrong, and this coming Sunday, Nov 1, we'll hear him interview Wendell Berry.

Berry is known to some of us through his poetry used in several of out worship service. In addition to his poetry, Berry is a strong social commentator and advocate for our environment, our food, bees and social justice.

Moyers website says, "Wendell Berry, one of America’s most influential writers who has written more than 40 novels, books of poetry, short stories and essays, has become an outspoken advocate for revolution. He’s calling for immediate action to end industrial farming and return to the sustainable farming methods of years past. In his interview with Bill, Berry says: “People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped; by influence, by power, by us.”

Here's a link to a preview: Click me!

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Karen Armstrong on Compassion

This coming Sunday we'll watch Bill Moyers interview author Karen Armstrong on the topic of compassion. Armstrong, a nun for 20 years, is best known for her books, including "The History of God," "The Battle for God" and "The Bible: a Biography"
Preview here: click me.
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More Light Sunday

 So You're Not Going to Hell After All. Now What?

Members of the LGBT community, like many other members of the FPCe congregation, face the task of maintaining or re-creating a spiritual life after less than positive experiences with organized religion in the past. In particular, LGBT individuals have to recover from those who use Leviticus, the story of Sodom & Gomorrah and other Biblical passages to justify their conviction that homosexuals are an "abomination."  The Adult Forum for October 18th, organized by the More Light Subcommittee, will use a clip from For the Bible Tells Me So and the experiences of Cindy Godwin and Tony Hedrick to generate a conversation on the process of becoming a full-fledged member of a faith community after alienation, disapproval or rejection by other religious groups.

Please join us at 9:45. All are very welcome. 

Walter Bruggeman

This coming Sunday, October 11, we'll watch and discuss a video by religious scholar, Walter Bruggeman. I don't have a preview link for the session we'll view, but here's a link to a sample of Professor Bruggemann. Please join us

One more Spong,,,

He's just too watchable. This coming Sunday, October 4th we will view and discuss Bishop Spong's sermon: "From a Tribal God to a Universal Presence." Here's the preview: click me. Please join us. You'll be warmly welcome.

Spong on a New Christianity

This Sunday, September 27th, we will watch and discuss the second half of Bishop John Shelby Spong's talk on "What a new Christianity for a new world will contain." You can preview the video: Click here. Spong gives a compelling presentation, consistent with his on-going message of the necessary humanity of Christianity and our role in living it out. Please join us in Martin Hall at 9:45. We'll be delighted to see you.