Weekend Event
DR. ELISABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA
April 20 - April 21, 2012
Fri. 7:30-9 pm & Sat. 9:00 am-2:30 pm
"Scripture, Democracy and Domination"
Location:
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Fondren Hall in the Jones Bldg.
5501 Main Street
Houston, Texas
Upcoming Weekend Events
Friday & Saturday, 4/20/12 & 4/21/12, DR. ELISABETH FIORENZA, Feminist Theologian, Professor and Author
Friday & Saturday, 10/19/12 & 10/20/12 – FRANK SCHAEFFER, Author and Film-Maker
Friday & Saturday, 2/15/13 & 2/16/13, DR. MARCUS BORG, Professor and Author
Spring 2012
Luncheon Lectures
The luncheon lectures are held on the second Wednesday of each month at The Forest Club, 9950 Memorial Drive from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, February 8th WILLIAM MARTIN
- Wednesday, March 14th ROBERT TUCKER
- Wednesday, April 11th ALEJANDRO CHAOUL
- Wednesday, May 9th JOHN STROUP
Click here for registration and more information about the lectures.
Foundation Gathering Groups
If you're interested in discussing theological issues, consider joining one of our Foundation Gathering Groups.
These groups meet in homes, and offer stimulating conversation in a friendly environment.
Gathering Groups meet at various times in several neighborhoods in the Houston area, so there's probably one that's convenient for you.
Click here for more information.
Tools for Professionals
Ministers have few resources for worship material that expresses a non-literal, non-dogmatic and non-exclusive understanding of our faith. Thus, what is spoken in worship is too often at variance with what is believed and proclaimed. This site is a place for materials that exhibit fresh images, striking metaphors, contemporary understandings and common sense. The items found here are freely offered and your offerings are sought.
Click here for more information.
Not only I, but people of my acquaintance who profess religion, are functional a-theists. Even if the word God is still used, the assumed literal realities to which that word points have evaporated—father and mother, king and lord—as have the actions of that God—residing in the sky, keeping records of who’s naughty and nice, and [...]
Notable Publications
- Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire by Rita Nakashima Brock
- Dr. Brock’s book was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of 2008 and has received critical acclaim by reviewers in the Christian Century, National Catholic Reporter, and Religious News Service.
- Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell, by John Shelby Spong
- The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer, by John Dominic Crossan
- Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian, by Paul Knitter
- The Historical Jesus for Beginners: A Primer on Contemporary Biblical Scholarship by Foundation board member William M. Linden
- Western Theology, by Foundation Founder Wes Seeliger
