Issues Classes

Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker discusses Pentecostalism: their history, their primary beliefs, and what we should appreciate about them and learn from them. 

This lecture was presented at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA on Sunday, June 16, 2019. 45 min • 26.9 MB

Rev. Nancy Reinert discusses Water for South Sudan including a 17 min video documentary and highlights of her trip to the region.

Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker discusses Catholicism: their history, their primary beliefs, and what we should appreciate about them and learn from them. 

This lecture was presented at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA on Sunday, May 12, 2019. 55 min • 34.6 MB

Derry member Bob Hanna concludes a discussion on a commentary co-authored by New Testament scholars Amy-Jill Levine, a practicing Jew, and Ben Witherington III, an Evangelical Methodist. Part 1 was presented on April 14, 2019.

This lecture was presented on Sunday morning, May 12, 2019 at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA • 64 minutes • 21 MB

Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker discusses the Orthodox church: their history, their primary beliefs, and what we should appreciate about them and learn from them. 

This lecture was presented at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA on Sunday, May 5, 2019. 47 min • 5.4 MB

Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker focuses on behavioral psychology for church leadership in this three-week series This lecture was presented on Sunday morning, February 3, 2019 at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA •  57 minutes • 13.7 MB

Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker focuses on heuristics in this second lecture in a series on behavioral psychology for church leadership. This lecture was presented on Sunday morning, February 17, 2019 at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA •  60 minutes • 14.4 MB

Eric D. Barreto is Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and an ordained Baptist minister. In this lecture he turns to the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles to consider how God’s gift of diversity might take root in our lives. This lecture was presented on Sunday morning, February 10, 2019 at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA •  46 minutes • 11.1 MB

Rev Nancy Reinert moderates a panel of pastors and church members (Martha Spong, Nancy Sheets, Paul Whitman and Brian Medkeff-Rose) who share their personal stories of how churches have helped and hurt the faith of Christians who identify as LGBTQ. This lecture was presented on Sunday morning, January 27, 2019 at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA • 67 minutes • 16 MB

Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker talks about the "No Joke" Project, a documentary that follows the friendship of an Imam, a Rabbi and an evangelical pastor and the practices they use to be in relationship with difference. This lecture was presented on Sunday morning, January 13 at Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey, PA •  48 minutes • 11.1 MB