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Location, location, location…beep, beep…ALERT! Is that first sentence working yet? We will be meeting at the U of W this Sunday morning. Same time (10:30 ish), coffee, Kids Table is on, etc…but NOT at Creative Manitoba. More detailed directions are at the end of this email, just in case you are either new to the community or have forgotten how this location works. But first, a word from our sponsor…
It’s a statistical fact that religion is in decline. Denying it tends to fall under “attempting to explain away the data”, much like most of what constitutes climate change denial. There’s been a rash of books talking about what all this means, both in terms of the history of religion and as speculation about what a “religion-less” future might look like. As someone that doesn’t think Jesus came to start a religion at all, I tend to look at this information with hope and even some excitement about what might be ahead for human spirituality.
In the midst of all that, I found myself reading something that suggested we are on the cusp of forming what the author called “the final religion”. To make it all more interesting, this writer basically thinks religion in general is harmful nonsense; a source of false hope and delusional thinking. So why would we form another one, and why it would it be the last one? And what kind of god-concept might fuel such speculation? This is what we’ll open some exploration of in the Talky Bit on Sunday.
Details about finding our gathering: Enter the building (the one that looks like a castle) by the main front doors (right in the middle of the front of the building, on the Portage Avenue side). There is a red and white campus sign on the grounds to the left of the doors that says “Wesley Hall”. Once inside, go straight ahead up the first short set of stairs, and take the wide curving hallway to your right. Once you go around the curve, you will see the elevator in an alcove on your right. Take the elevator to the fourth floor, exit to your left, and you’ll be in the Club. Or you could just follow the smell of the freshly brewed coffee…
Parking is on the surrounding streets, most notably convenient on Balmoral, the first street to the east of Wesley Hall.
I’ll see you on Sunday.
– Tim Plett
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By The Table WinnipegLocation, location, location…beep, beep…ALERT! Is that first sentence working yet? We will be meeting at the U of W this Sunday morning. Same time (10:30 ish), coffee, Kids Table is on, etc…but NOT at Creative Manitoba. More detailed directions are at the end of this email, just in case you are either new to the community or have forgotten how this location works. But first, a word from our sponsor…
It’s a statistical fact that religion is in decline. Denying it tends to fall under “attempting to explain away the data”, much like most of what constitutes climate change denial. There’s been a rash of books talking about what all this means, both in terms of the history of religion and as speculation about what a “religion-less” future might look like. As someone that doesn’t think Jesus came to start a religion at all, I tend to look at this information with hope and even some excitement about what might be ahead for human spirituality.
In the midst of all that, I found myself reading something that suggested we are on the cusp of forming what the author called “the final religion”. To make it all more interesting, this writer basically thinks religion in general is harmful nonsense; a source of false hope and delusional thinking. So why would we form another one, and why it would it be the last one? And what kind of god-concept might fuel such speculation? This is what we’ll open some exploration of in the Talky Bit on Sunday.
Details about finding our gathering: Enter the building (the one that looks like a castle) by the main front doors (right in the middle of the front of the building, on the Portage Avenue side). There is a red and white campus sign on the grounds to the left of the doors that says “Wesley Hall”. Once inside, go straight ahead up the first short set of stairs, and take the wide curving hallway to your right. Once you go around the curve, you will see the elevator in an alcove on your right. Take the elevator to the fourth floor, exit to your left, and you’ll be in the Club. Or you could just follow the smell of the freshly brewed coffee…
Parking is on the surrounding streets, most notably convenient on Balmoral, the first street to the east of Wesley Hall.
I’ll see you on Sunday.
– Tim Plett
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