| Ron's Spring-Summer 2010 |
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Sunday July 18
Common Ground Deerfield |
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Sunday Centering |
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Monday July 19 10:00-11:30
Nielsen Campus |
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The Battle for God
The most crucial issue in world religions today is the conflict between fanatics and moderates. This book gives us an excellent background for appreciating the origins, the depth and the complexity of this issue. |
Wed July 21 9:30-11:30
Common Ground Deerfield |
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Thinking Like a Religious Existentialist
The heirs of pioneers like Kierkegaard and Nietzche include Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gabriel Marcel, and Thomas Merton. What does it mean to incorporate their method of thinking into our own understanding of existing in the contemporary world and struggling with the problems confronting us today? |
Monday July 26 10:00-11:30
Nielsen Campus |
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The Battle for God
The most crucial issue in world religions today is the conflict between fanatics and moderates. This book gives us an excellent background for appreciating the origins, the depth and the complexity of this issue.
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Wed July 28 9:30-11:30
Common Ground Deerfield |
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Thinking Like a Religious Existentialist
The heirs of pioneers like Kierkegaard and Nietzche include Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gabriel Marcel, and Thomas Merton. What does it mean to incorporate their method of thinking into our own understanding of existing in the contemporary world and struggling with the problems confronting us today? |
Wed July 28 1:15-2:25
Oasis Center Northbrook CT |
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A Roadmap to Protestantism in America.
Some televangelist's portray a final battle between forces of light and darkness to be fought in Jerusalem. Other preachers speak of "a rapture of true believers" after which everyone else will be "left behind" for tribulations. Some ministers preach a "feel good" gospel, assuring us that God wants us to be rich. Others direct us to the pressing needs of our time: poverty, environmental disaster and war. Some Protestants read the Bible as religious poetry; others consider it to be as factual as front-page reporting. We will develop a "map" to locate some of these major Protestant denies.
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Monday Aug 2 10:00-11:30
Nielsen Campus |
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The Case for God
This book is Armstrong's comprehensive and in depth response to the arguments against God and religion raised by the "new atheists" whose books are pouring off the press. Authors such as Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens view religion as the source of world problems. Why are their books so popular? What
valid points are they making? And, more importantly, what is lacking in their discussion of religion?
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Monday Aug 9 10:00-11:30
Nielsen Campus |
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The Case for God
This book is Armstrong's comprehensive and in depth response to the arguments against God and religion raised by the "new atheists" whose books are pouring off the press. Authors such as Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens view religion as the source of world problems. Why are their books so popular? What
valid points are they making? And, more importantly, what is lacking in their discussion of religion?
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Wed Aug 11 1:15-2:25
Oasis Center Northbrook CT |
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RELIGION OR SPIRITUALITY
Many people identify themselves as spiritual, not religious. What does that mean? Can one be spiritual and not religious? Can one be religious and not spiritual? Many Americans see the mainline churches as too liberal. The Episcopal Church loses members protesting the denomination's decision to ordain women and gays. Others leave these same churches because they consider them too conservative. Former Catholics now constitute 10% of the population. Unaffiliated centers of spiritual teaching and proactive increase and multiply, and yet so do the mea-churches that now dot our religious landscape. We will try to make some sense out of these diverse and contradictory phenomena.
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