Saturday, June 12, 2010
Next city-wide main gathering
There will be readings, games, prizes, and most importantly good food and conversation.
Please join us at Bayland Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet from 1:00 to 3:00. We look forward to seeing you there!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Religion Ethics and Society Club
Date | Topic/Theme/Book Title | Author | Presenter |
January 30, 2010 | “Jesus Interrupted “ | Bart Ehrman | D. Troiano |
February 20, 2010 | “Free Will … Personal Responsibility” | Joseph Rychlak | Barbara Greer |
March 27, 2010 | “Ethics of Robber Barons “ | Jim Knierien | |
April 24, 2010 | “History of Philosophy ..." | Daniel Robinson | Louis Daily |
May 22, 2010 | “The Alphabet and the Garden” | Leonard Schlain | Louis Daily |
June 26, 2010 | |||
July 24, 2010 | “Women in Humanism” From ‘Doubt’” | Michael Jennifer Hecht | Sara Simon |
August 28, 2010 | |||
September 25, 2010 | Dmitri Shostakovitch-Russian Moralist” | Music of Shostakovitch | Tony Settles |
October 23, 2010 | |||
November 27, 2010 | |||
December 2010 | SOLSTICE PARTY |
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Tentative Schedule for 2007/2008
| Date | Topic/Theme/Book | Author | Reviewer |
| 3/24/07 | Introduction to Islam | Tom Brucia | |
| 4/28/07 | |||
| 5/26/07 | Perception of Christianity in the 1st Century by Hellenes | Jerry Harris | |
| 6/23/07 | Evolutionary Psychology of Religion | Steven Pinker | Art Fay |
| 7/28/07 | Humanist Ethics | Robert Finch | |
| 8/25/07 | The Varieties of Religious Experience | William James | Tom Brucia |
| 9/22/07 | Dialectics of Secularization | J. Habermas & J. Ratzinger | Ron Titus |
| 10/27/07 | Porphyry Numenius | based on a research paper by Marian Hillar | Jerry Harris & Marian Hillar |
| 11/24/07 | Psychology of Atheism according to the third essay in Geneology of Morals | Frederick Nietzsche | Marian Hillar |
| 12/15/07 | <Winter Solstice Celebration> | ||
| 1/26/08 | Purpose for Your Life | Abraham Maslow & Lyle Simpson | Sara Simon |
| 2/23/08 | The Truth Behind the New Atheism | David Marshall | Carine Grosjean |
| 3/22/08 | The Contribution of Kurt Vonnegut to Humanism | Kurt Vonnegut | Tom Brucia |
| 4/26/08 | Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence | Hector Avalos | Jim Knierien |
| 5/24/08 | Introduction to Islam | Sid George | |
| 6/28/08 | Play: Prometheus Bound | Sid George | Sid George |
| 7/26/08 | The Enlightenment & the American Constitution | Historical Documents | Ariel Thomann |
| 8/23/08 | The Black Swan | Nassim Talib | Tom Brucia |
| 9/27/08 | Ancient Mystery Religions as the Source of Christianity | Sid George | |
| 10/25/08 | Judaism and Herod the Great | Sid George | |
| 11/22/08 | The Question of the Soul | Francis Crick | Rusty Lyon |
| 12/27/08 | SOLSTICE PARTY | ||
| 1/24/09 | Ethics Philosophy of Albert Camus, Maximilian Kolbe, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Tom Brucia |