Suggestions for Sessions Class (random order)

        From Jan. 2 social, previous planning sessions, and miscellaneous ideas that trickle into the file

Books

If Grace Is True, Gulley & Mulholland

Here I Stand, John Shelby Spong

Pope Joan, Cross

The Davinci Code, Brown

Heaven on a Dime: Memoir of a Small-Town Preacher, Moody

On Lying, Bok

A Brief History of Everything, Bill Bryson

Stories on religion, race, class and wealth, Flannery O’Connor

Sermons, Gomes

The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind & Heart, Gomes

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities & Limits of Forgiveness, Weisenthal

Parables of Jesus, Kalas

Salvation & Sand Mountain, Covington

The Power and the Glory, Greene

44 Steps Up & Off the Plateau, Schaffer

Exploring the Road Less Traveled, Howard

The Cotton Patch, Jordan

The Myth Maker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, Maccoby

Jesus: A Life, Wilson

Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Thiering

The Last Gospel, Mock

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, Crossan

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Meirr

The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images, Crossan

Jesus: The Evidence, Wilson

The Real Jesus, Johnson

The Gospel According to Peanuts, Short

Jesus: A Revolutionary, Crossan

Essays/Columns/Poems

Wendell Berry

Barbara Kingsolver

Peter Karoff

Thomas Friedman

Randy Cohen columns from the New York Times

Discussion Topics/Sources

Recent Scientific Discoveries/Theories and the Impact on

Religious Thought, Mick Ford

The Lost Books of the Bible, Forrest Roberts

Atonement

Church Politics

Religious Education

Women and the Bible

Ecumenical Challenges

Josephson Institute (ethics) – www.josephsoninstitute.org

www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/ethics.htm

Marian Conference

Creationsim

Time, distance, and other marvels (Bryson’s book)

Iraq and Al-Quaida

Israel and Palestine

Homeless, public housing, and migrant workers

Health care access

Fatherhood and single parent families

Substance abuse (meth-labs, etc.)

Asset-based approach to alleviating poverty

Openness and Accountability

Single issue politics

Reparations

Animal Rights

Foreign Policy

Guests

Sister Larraine Lauter, MISAS (migrant program)

Sister Cheryl Simmons

Canaan Harris

Representative of Islam, Jewish, Hindu communities

St. Meinrad Seminary

Bellermine’s Merton Center

Rev. Larry Hostetter, Brescia

Debbie Johnson, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse

Keith Sanders, Hager Foundation

Rosemary Lawson, Boulware Mission

Personal Growth

Videos

Outings

Joint Session with Evansville Methodist Class (Bob Darrell)

New Harmony (Paul Tillich’s burial site)

Discussion topics suggested by Bob Darrell:

        Tillich’s books of sermons

        Biblical Religion and the Search for Reality

        Dynamics of Faith

        The Protestant Era

        The Courage to Be

        Faith and Culture

Lectures – Area Colleges

        KWC, Brescia

        University of Evansville

        University of Southern Indiana

        Western Kentucky University

        Other

Henry Gates, Kentucky Center for the Arts

January 20, 8:00 p.m. (EST)

Previous Discussion Topics/Activities Include

The Quakers

Presentations from the General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Martin Luther (video)

Book Discussions

        Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Pagels

Gnostic Gospels, Pagels

        Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Spong

        Rescuing Christianity from Fundamentalism, Spong

        Lamb

Peace Series:

The Impact of 9-11

The Ethics of Warfare

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

God & Country, from “What are People For?” by W. Berry

Others

Catholic Church Scandal

Guests

Police Chief John Kazlauskas

NAACP President Ken Riley

Outings

        Dinner & Lecture – Jared Diamond, WKU

        Lecture – Kentucky Wesleyan College

Christmas PartySummer Social

ADDED July 05

This I Believe Series (NPR essays)

I Was an Economic Hit Man (book discussion)

The Sins of Scripture (book discussion)

Serving the Uninsured (review of PLFO issue brief)

Misc. essays from The Impossible Will Take a Little Time

Blue Like Jazz (book discussion)

The World Is Flat (book discussion)

Misc. books/profile of Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox

Misc. discussion of the writings of members of the Jesus Seminar

The Power of Intention (book discussion)

And God said, “Play Ball!” (book discussion)

How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci (book discussion)

If God is Love  (book discussion)

Upcoming Show: Science and Hope (book discussion)