Past Adult Forum Events
2008
March 2—SREEDEVI BRINGI
March 9—LINDA MERCADANTE—Theologian-in-Residence
March 16—LINDA MERCADANTE--“Spiritual autobiography
March 23—EASTER—DVD, “The Power of Forgiveness.”
March 30—RABBI TIRZAH FIRESTONE—Renewal Judaism.
April 6--Rabbi Tirzah Firestone of Renewal Judaism
April 13--Judy Hill, Lay Leader of our Annual Methodist Rocky Mountain Conference
April 20--Riri and Win's trip to Indonesia
April 27--Rev. Keith, more background on the Faith of Islam
MAY 4—Jesus And Judaism: Why The Connection Still Matters DVD of Dr. Amy-Jill Levine.
MAY 11—Islam First Hand Ismail Demirkan
MAY 18—The Urantia Teachings And Jesus. Paula Thompson
MAY 25—Jon Kottke and Karen Sandstead will share the Bible Workbench class
June 1-- Rev. Al Staggs-- Laughter for Life.
June 7-- Suicide-- Chuck McGee
June 15-August 31. Join our TIRs, Joe Agne and Dana Jones for a variety of sessions all summer including social justice and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sept. 7-- Video: Sick around the World
Sept. 8-- Monday evening early supper at 6:30pm with Methodist Missionary from Ghana.
Sept. 14-- Life stories of Cindy and Ken Birgen with some comments from their daughter, Julia about her summer youth trip to Birmingham, AL.
Sept. 21-- Health care project in Uganda, Africa by Christine Hibbard PhD and David Hibbard MD of Family Medical Associates here in Boulder.
Additional Forum afternoon program on Health care policy coordinated by Dorothy Ogle.
Sept. 28—Introductory presentation by Rev. Keith of his fall class on PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY, which will run on Monday evenings and Thursday afternoons
Nov. 2nd—Eco-Ministries with Brian Ray James
Nov. 9—Beginning of series on PRISON REFORM—Restoring the Soul Focus. Tania Leontov
Nov.16 Rocky Mountain Climate Organization with Tom Easley, Director of Programs
Nov. 23—Stan Garnett, the new District Attorney, will speak about Reform in Sentencing and Alternatives to Incarceration. What is Restorative Justice?
Nov. 30—Thanks giving weekend and beginning of Advent—a video on Restorative Justice
Dec. 7--Christy Donner from the Colorado Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform
Dec. 14—Adult Forum Joint meeting with Jon Kottke or Karen Sandstead and the Bible Study group.
Dec. 21— Visiting Theologian, Joerg Rieger will be with us from mid December to mid-January. He is author of the book, “Christ and Empire”. His topic for the Forum will be in the Bulletin.
Dec. 28—A video of topical interest
2009
Jan. 4- to be determined (TBD)
Jan. 11-Jacqueline Muller Library on Wheels for Nonviolence and Peace and documentary “Spreading the Word”
Jan. 18 – Clovis Morrisson discusses the role of the UN in removing the root causes of strife than any other entity in the world.
Jan. 25- Israel-Palestine Conflict
February 1-- Aerin Bender-Stone, our Director of Children’s Ministry: 40 assets for success of children or youth.
Mar. 1-- BEYOND OUR DIFFERENCES
Mar. 8--Karen Van Vuren will present NATURAL TRANSITIONS
Mar.15-- Making Equality Personal by Jean Hodges. If you’d like to know some easy ways to be a straight ally for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, please come.
Mar. 22 -- Win & Riri will share from their recent experiences while serving refugees from Burma in a Thailand Refugee Camp.
Mar.29— An important video documentary presents Sexual Harassment of Teens in the Workplace.
Apr. 5—Palm Sunday. A brief meaningful video as the Palm Sunday parade on Pine Street begins at 10AM.
April 12—Easter Sunday-- video of award winning theologian, historian, and author Dr. Karen Armstrong who recently won the worldwide TED award for her work in developing a Universal Charter for Compassion. Her aim is to bring compassion into the 3 major world religions as all have a stated belief of the Golden Rule. Her newest book is THE CASE FOR GOD.
April 19—Native American Spirituality by Marty Chase-Alone who is from the Dakota Tribe. This program is a continuing part of our Interfaith Series of last year.
April 26—Richard and Barbara Dash will share their experiences of PUTTING PEACES TOGETHER.
May 3—Video of Karen Armstrong, an award-winning theologian, historian, and author.
May 10—Our visiting theologian, the Rev. Dr. Al Staggs, will do another drama presentation.
May 17—The first of a series: “Who Is My Neighbor? A Faith Discussion On Immigration.”
May 24—”What Does The Lord Require Of You?” The second session in the series, “Who Is My Neighbor? A Faith Discussion on Immigration.”
May 31—”Perfect Love Casts Out Fear.” The third session of the immigration series.
June 7—The Good Samaritan: Who Is My Neighbor? Reflecting on Jesus’ parable of the good Samaritan, if we have to ask, “Who is my neighbor?” our neighborhood is too small.
August 2--Bonnie Richards and Sam Miller shared their life stories
August 9--Rev. Dr. Eugene Lowry our Theologian in Residence, to speak on: John Wesley-eclectic, contradictory, or just plain escape artist. Or John Wesley might also be known as "Methodism's First Revisionist".
August 16--Jeanne Elliott will tell us her life story, including some early church or religious trauma.
August 23--Orville and Bonnie Harms share their life stories.
August 30--Jon Kottke and Mary McDonald, with some other members of the mission team who went to Kenya this summer, will share their experiences and insights.
September 6--Linda Fong and Binx Selby, back a year since his serious illness to share their life stories and Binx's enhanced philosophy .
September 13-- Reverend Mary Kathryn will speak on The Theology of Hospitality.
September 20--Excellent video on Health Care Reform from Bill Moyer's Journal.
September 27--Explanation of contents of congressional bills on Health Care Reform and discussion.
Nov.1 -- Top scams targeting elders by Cindy Taylor from Boulder County District Attorney's Office. Mary Foehr from Boulder County Adult Protective Services discussed the signs of abuse, neglect, and exploitation .
Nov. 8--PFLAG--Learn more from Connie Colman and others about PFLAG.
Nov. 15--Jessma Blockwick will lead a discussion on the US role in Population control.
Nov. 22-- Celebrating our church's 150 years with reminiscences by some of the former pastors of FUMC.
Dec. 6.--CARRIAGE HOUSE--Joyce Eckstine, the Manager, will tell us about the history and organization of the Carriage House.
Dec. 12, 20, and 27th. We will have a series of REFLECTIONS ON Three SEASONAL HYMNS
to explore the rich emotional and experiential meaning of the lyrics.
Jan. 3--Video of an interview with JANE GOODALL.
Jan. 10--Rev. Gilbert Caldwell will join us at the Adult Forum.
Jan. 17-- CARRIAGE HOUSE COMMUNITY TABLE Joy Eckstine , General Manager.
Jan 24, Jan 31, and Feb.7--Rev. Keith will present a shortened version of each of his 3 two hour classes at the Adult Forum on JESUS, OBAMA AND AMERICA'S WARS.
Feb. 14--Black History month presentation and discussion by a University of Colorado professor with expertise in the civil rights or black history area.
Feb.21. and 28, At the forum, Rev. Keith will begin his shorter version of the Lenten series on THE HISTORICAL JESUS and the KINGDOM OF GOD.
Until Easter, the Adult Forum will be participating in an abbreviated version of Rev. Keith Thompson's Lenten Study using material from Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg.
April 11--This Sunday begins a SERIES OF FOUR PROGRAMS ON TEENAGE ISSUES AND TEENS AT RISK WITH PROGRAMS AND ORGANIZAIONS SEEKING TO HELP THEM. Morgan Rogers, the Civic Forum Director of the Community Foundation will speak on the latest Boulder County Trends Survey Report with focus on specific Teen Issues.
April 18--Melissa Marsh, a Boulder County Public Health Nurse and Director of the OASIS Program.
April 25--Theresa Reali, a teacher at Arapahoe Ridge High School, will share with us the Teen Parenting Program.
May 2--ATENTION HOMES--Phyllis Olson will share some history of how she, her husband, Roger, and others from FUMC were instrumental in helping create the Attention Homes.
May 9--Mother's Day--Rev. John Churcher, A British Methodist Pastor, who will be with us briefly as a Theologian in Residence, will describe some of the Social Justice ministries in Great Britian.
May 16-- I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION. Lori Canova, Executive Director
May 23-SUDAN--WHAT DO WE HAVE YET TO LEARN? Myrna Prentice, the UMW Conference Secretary
May30--Memorial Day Weekend--EVOLUTION, WHAT DARWIN NEVER KNEW--a NOVA video from PBS that is scientific and intriguing.
June 6--Keith and Claire share some of their experiences, thoughts, feelings, and satisfactions of serving FUMC these past nearly 6 years.
June 13--THE LIFE STORY of HELEN WINSTED who will share with us both her personal story of her spiritual growth as well as stories of her FUMC experiences and member participation since 1963.
June 20--Rev. Al Staggs returned to discuss Wm Sloane Coffin, a man who was "out there" on the front line on issues such as civil rights, war, nuclear proliferation, and glbt rights.
June 27 -- A DVD presentation of a Social Justice issue or an idea or ideal to promote spiritual growth.