FORUM
Community Forums originated from a desire to “Gain a Wider World View” (our theme) and are focused on gaining insight in and understanding of spirituality and social justice. In this context we organized forums with speakers who were natives of, or had lived in Palestine, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan. Forum committee members: Kathy Aanestad (Chair), Kathy Jewell, Joan Howarth and Joan Huguenard, Susan Harris, and David McFarland.

This year, the Forum will concentrate on the issues surrounding the Death Penalty and Prison Reform.

Additional programs included:

•  Sufis
•  Hindu Religion
•   Deepak Chopra: “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind”
•  Karen Armstrong: “A History of God”
•  Bishop John Shelby Spong: “Why Christianity Must Change or Die”
•  Sylvia Boorstein: “It’s Easier than you Think”
•  Huston Smith: “The World’s Religions”
•  Thomas Lynch: “Bodies in Motion and at Rest”
•  Kathleen Norris: “Amazing Grace” “Sins of the  Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh”
•  Robert Scheer: "Playing President"
•  Ray Suarez: "The Holy Vote - The Politics of Faith in America"
• Matthew Fox: "The Hidden Spirituality of Men"
•  Byron Katie
•  Sandy Tolan: "The Lemon Tree"
•  Dr. David Greenberg, The Buck Institute
•  Stacy Turner, Elder Law Attorney
•  Erin Henke, Hospice by the Bay
•  Rev. Kathy Speas, Hospice Chaplain
•  Dr. Ellis Jones: "Better World Shopping Guide"
•  John Marks: "Reasons to Believe"
•  Professor Jonah Raskin
•  Joan Huguenard
•  Margaret Trost: "On That Day Everybody Ate"
•  Interfaith Conversations with Rev. Nancy Taylor, Rabbi Jack Gabriel, Said Mansour, and Betsy Hand
•  Rabbi Rami Shapiro: "Walking the Labyrinth"
•  Professor Jehon Grist: "King Tut"
•  Mahendra Meghani: "Gandhi"
•  'Walk for Health Care Reforrm'
•  "Esperanza and the New School;
      Esperanza y la Nueva Escuela." 
•  Babaji
•  Rev. Tish Bulkley and "Age of Wisdom"
•  Dr. Rich Lenson, Rev. Nancy Taylor, Imam Ali Siddiqui in an "Interfaith Conversation"
•  Rev. Dorothy Streutker
•  Jeanne Woodford - former warden at San Quentin

Where appropriate, authors were invited to discuss a recently published book. Please let us know if you want your name to be added to our mailing list so that we can inform you of our forthcoming events.

 

Robert Scheer

Ray Suarez

Matthew Fox

Kathleen Norris

Byron Katie

Sandy Tolan

Dr. David Greenberg, The Buck Institute on Aging

Erin Henke
Hospice by the Bay

Uncounted
Facilitated by Joan Huguenard