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
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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"
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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.
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Deepak Chopra

Sylvia Boorstein

Thomas Lynch
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Karen Armstrong

Bishop Spong

Huston Smith
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Robert Scheer
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Ray Suarez
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Matthew Fox
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Kathleen Norris
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Byron Katie
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Sandy Tolan
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Dr. David Greenberg, The Buck Institute on Aging
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Stacy
Turner, Esq.
Elder Law Attorney
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Erin
Henke
Hospice by the Bay
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Rev.
Kathy Speas
Hospice by the Bay
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Dr.
Ellis Jones: The Better World Shopping Guide
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John
Marks: Reasons to Believe: One Man's Journey
Among the Evangelicals and the Faith He Left Behind
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Professor
Jonah Raskin:
The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution
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Uncounted
Facilitated by Joan Huguenard
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Margaret
Trost
co-sponsored by Readers' Books
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INTERFAITH
CONVERSATIONS
Speakers:
Betsy Hand, Buddhist chaplain who works with the dying
Rev. Nancy Taylor, Christian
Said Mansour, Muslim
Rabbi Jack Gabriel, Jewish
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Matthew
Fox
co-sponsored with Readers' Books
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The Better World Shopping Guide #2
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Joan
Huguenard
First Century Meal
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Rabbi
Rami Shapiro
Labyrinth walk
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Mahendra
Meghani
Ghandi author
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King
Tut lecture
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Health
Care Reform
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Sara
Donnelly and Sally Carnahan Lewis. "Esperanza and the
New School; Esperanza y la Nueva Escuela."
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Age
of Wisdom
Tish Bulkley
a SEMINAR for women
focusing on
the last third of life
from a spiritual perspective
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Sam Keen
"In
the Absence of God?"
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Interfaith
Fast for Peace
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The Petaluma
Progressives
present
Alice Walker and many
other renowned speakers. The Forum is a co-sponsor of this event.
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Dr. Richard Lenson
Rev. Nancy Taylor
Imam Ali Siddiqui |
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2.1.2011 Movie Night |
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