Adult Education Recordings
January Recordings
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January 3: Ben Ball's spiritual journey.
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December Recordings
December 13: The Examined Life and COVID: 2020 and its inner impact: John, and his life partner, Patricia Kane, brought many gifts to Covenant when they began spending part of each year in Houston when John was teaching at the Jung Center. John shares his gentle wisdom at: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-your-past
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November Recordings
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Education for November 1: Ben Ball and Jackie Rundstein led us in an investigation of four questions that John Dominic Crossan addresses to 21st century Christians. We will hear from Crossan via a clip from “Living the Questions” and then discuss various responses to these questions.
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October Recordings
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Education for October 4: Rice Sociology Professor Stephen Klineberg spoke about his book, Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America as reflected in 35 years of the Houston Area Surveys.
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September Recordings
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Education for September 6:
Ben Ball will discuss the topic Taking the Bible Seriously. |
August Recordings
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Education for August 9:
Bob Tucker, Part 2 on The Invention of Christianity. |
Education for August 2:
Sarah Winter on Therapeutic Horseback Riding |
July Recordings
Education for July 26:
David Ramsey's spiritual journey. |
![]() Education for July 12 & 19:
Rent the film for $2.99 here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/strangedemiseofjimcrow Not all the civil rights victories of the '60s were won at the cost of vicious beatings and mass arrests played-out in front of television cameras. The Strange Demise of Jim Crow reveals for the first time on film how many Southern cities were desegregated in a quieter, almost stealthy fashion with behind-the-scenes negotiations, secret deals and controversial news black-outs. It makes visible a fascinating case-study in Houston of how urban power is really wielded. Credits: Creator/Executive Producer: Thomas R. Cole, Director: David Berman Co-producer/Editor: William Howze |
June Recordings
Education From June 28, 2020
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow One of the most important and influential books written in the 21st century about the injustices of racism, particularly as manifest in the criminal justice system and the War on Drugs, is legal scholar and civil rights activist Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Given the current intense discussion and worldwide protests of racial injustice, we invite you to listen to this powerful presentation and the Q&A that followed by clicking Progressive Forum presents Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow. |
Education for June 21: Bob Tucker, member of Covenant, retired Congregational/United Church of Christ minister, and former executive director of the Foundation for Contemporary Theology, has a presentation on “The invention of Christianity.”
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May Recordings
Education from May 31, 2020: Dr. Sravana Varma, who spoke to the class about basics of Hinduism, has given another lecture about the Hindu caste system.
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Education from May 24, 2020:
Letting Go as a Part of Moving On from John Shuster: There are practical and spiritual elements to the Letting Go Process, some of which comes naturally to us and some of which is counter-intuitive and quite difficult for many if not most of us. This session will look at how the Covid factor in our lives has raised many an opportunity on both the practical and the spiritual level to let go, in order to expand or strengthen our soul-life for whatever we face and are managing and praying our ways through. |