Adult Forum
Adult Forum begins at 9am on Sunday mornings in the Parlor (ground level, back of the building). Forums focus on a variety of contemporary topics and issues, often with a guest speaker to present information and answer questions on the chosen subject.
Schedule
June 15-August 31. Join our newest TIRs, Joe Agne and Dana Jones for a variety of sessions all summer including social justice and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as early as the mid-1960s, envisioned a World House in which all people of the world could live. He felt we were unduly separated by ideology, religion, economics, violence and race. Joe wonders what a World House Congregation might look like.
Let’s have weekly conversations in which we engage with one of Dr. King’s primary works, e.g. a
chapter from a book, his sermon at Riverside Church one year before his death, the sermon he was going to preach the Sunday after his assassination, his Letter from Birmingham Jail, his own account of his mystical experience at his kitchen table in the middle of the night as violence was threatening his family.
We will focus on King’s triplets: militarism, racism, and materialism. In all of this we will explore how to be truly non-violent persons and reinvigorate a nonviolent church and movement. The text we will use is A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. a collection of Dr. King’s works, edited by Dr. James Washington. Purchase of the book will be valuable but not required. Persons can attend any or all of the discussions.