Speaker: Rev. David Breeden

Sunday, December 9, 2018

You know what awe feels like. But what is the feeling telling us?

Text (PDF): Why Is Awe So Awesome?

Speaker: Rev. David Breeden

Sunday, December 2, 2018

Naturalism calls us to explore mystery, knowing all the while that human understanding has its limits.

Text (PDF): Ego, Awe, Humble Heart

Speaker: Rev. Kelli Clement

Sunday, November 25, 2018

What do we owe to our past and our future?

Speaker: Rev. Jim Foti

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Our recollections, of our lives and of history, inform our perceptions and our expectations.

Text (PDF): Memory-Reality-and-Whats-Next

Speaker: Dr. William P. Jones.

Sunday, November 4

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, he was in Memphis to support African-American sanitation workers on strike for what he called “the dignity of labor.” Dr. Jones explains how that strike gave rise to a Poor People’s movement and why it continues to inspire struggles for racial and economic justice today. Dr. Jones is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses on race and class in the 20th century United States.

Presentation Slides

Speaker: Rev. David Breeden

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Remembering our own pasts as the events actually happened is not as easy as we . . . remember.

Text (PDF): What We Have Done

Speaker: Dr. Wally Swan

October 28, 2018

The rise of populism in the United States and Europe has brought with it an effort to dismantle the extension of rights to the LGBTQ community. Dr. Swan specializes in public policy, administrative ethics, public and non-profit finance and organization theory and teaches at Walden and Hamline universities.

Speaker: Rev. David Breeden

Sunday, October 28, 2018

We are accustomed to the assumption that a free market and a free flow of ideas go hand-in-hand. But what happens when the market for ideas gets flooded or dries up?

Speaker: Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Secular Studies, Pitzer College

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Many Americans can’t fathom how morality happens in a universe without God.  Phil Zuckerman discusses the natural sources of human morality and shows how and why secular ethics work so we.

Speaker: Rev. David Breeden

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Imagination is one thing. Storytelling is another. But fictional truth is not a thing.