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July 21 @ 10 am – “Some Varieties of Religious Experience, with apologies to William James”
Speaker: Jim O'Brien | July 15, 2019
Cults don’t call themselves “cults” but it’s what they do that defines them. The Lyman Family prepared their followers to be “raptured” to Venus at a definite date and time, which was often postponed. In...
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Sunday, July 22 @ 9 & 11 am – “Who Put the Fun in Fundamentalism”
Speaker: Jim O'Brien | July 16, 2018
Fundamentalism is simple, natural, clear, and more than a little risky. It makes the complex easy, such as the meaning(s) of the Bible; it produces order in society by validating the principle of patriarchy and...
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August 20 – I’m Not Religious, I’m Spiritual, 9 & 11 a.m.
Speaker: Jim O'Brien | August 15, 2017
Given the decline in traditional church attendance and membership, and even professions of belief in a higher power, where and how do people find support and renewal for the life of the spirit. Former priest...