Adult Christian Education Program
Our mission is to endeavor to support each individual’s journey of faith through lifelong learning. We provide a variety of formats including classes, discussions, small group programs, and materials for self-paced learning.
Summer 2005 - When Religion LiesJune 8 - July 13 - Wednesday Evening Adult Ed with Dr. Baxter
Summer 2005
When Religion Lies
June 12, 2005
Join us for this provocative summer lecture at the church in Fellowship Hall. We will begin at 10:30 AM (immediately following Sunday worship) and continue through 1:00 PM.
A brown-bag lunch will be served. Please register no later than June 5th at sign-up tables or contact Elder Linda Long through the church office.
Fee = $10.00 Students = $5.00
(Fee is due at
registration. Cash or checks made payable to “Presbyterian Church of
Barrington.”)
The Latin motto reminds us:
Corruptio optimi pessima. The
corruption of the best things is the worst kind of corruption.
Nothing can corrupt like religion and our
age has seen it on
several fronts. We will discuss the deceit in televangelism, the
Catholic bureaucracy’s cover-up of child abuse, clergy ignoring
their prophetic vocation for fear of losing their jobs, anti-Semitic
themes in popular movies, the false sense of security offered by the
religious right, etc. What are we to make of it all in a time of
cultural tension and transition? How do we maintain our own faith?
Dr. Ron Miller, one of PCB’s favorite lecturers will return to help us safely navigate the murky waters of this topic. Friends and neighbors are welcome! Ron earned his Ph.D. in History and Literature of Religions at Northwestern University. He is Chair of the Department of Religion at Lake Forest College. He is also co-founder of the Common Ground Institute in Deerfield, Illinois which celebrates 31 years in 2005!
Wednesday
Evening Adult
Christian Education Discussion
CREDO
Written by William Sloane Coffin
Dr. Curt Baxter will lead us through six Wednesday evening discussions from June 8 – July 13. We will meet in the church library from 7 – 9 PM to discuss how our faith translates into our lives with the National Best Seller CREDO as our reference. The only fee will be for the book.
William Sloane has fought social injustice and argued that faith must be at the heart of political and intellectual life. In this book, Coffin gives a record of his remarkable public life, offering his inspiring words on issues ranging from charity and justice, politics, economic issues, the environment, nuclear disarmament, and morality to the meaning of faith, the church, and a pastor’s responsibility. How should people of faith allow their relationship to God to interface with these issues?
William Coffin Sloane has served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, was senior minister of Riverside Church, and is President Emeritus of SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security. He became famous while at Yale in the 1960s for this opposition to the Vietnam War. He was jailed as a civil rights “Freedom Rider,” indicted by the government in the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, and has been immortalized as Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. He continues his activism today on behalf of nuclear disarmament. Both Union Theological Seminary in New York and Yale University have established scholarships in his honor.
In the book foreword by James Carroll he says “The good words collected here, drawing from the treasures of what Coffin has said in a thousand circumstances….once heard, it is not to be forgotten.”
"Truth is always in danger
of
being sacrificed on the altars
of good taste and social
stability.”