Adult Education Recordings
April 2021 Recordings
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April 11: For this Sunday adult education featured a Zoom visit by Amanda Yoder and Anne Slater, therapists who have developed and lead an innovative six-week program called Examining Whiteness. This presentation will not be the first session in this program, but an introduction and explanation of what the program entails, described more fully here. Those who choose to participate in the six sessions of the program would do so in groups of approximately ten people.
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April 4: For this Easter Sunday adult education presented the following video of Amy-Jill Levine from 2015 giving a lecture on Jesus: Who Did They Say He Was? Jesus in Text and Context.
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March 2021 Recordings
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March 28: Adult Education this Sunday dealt with the events of Holy Week, featuring a lecture by John Dominic Crossan, whose lessons added so much to our pre-Christmas classes. Here is the direct YouTube link to the video Bill shared with us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdEnJtvBi84.
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March 21: James Cone presents the Fred D. Grey Plenary Lecture on his book The Cross and the Lynching Tree, in Human and Civil Rights, Alumni Auditorium, Lipscomb University, June 2017.
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March 14: Laura Mayo speaking on substitutionary atonement.
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March 7: This is a presentation by Moonshot Compost, an organization dedicated to reducing food waste in Houston, a significant example of “Sustainable Living,” which the Adult Education Committee plans to add as one of the recurring categories it uses in planning its classes in 2021.
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February 2021 Recordings
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This is the recording of the gathering hosted by Tom Cole and Thelma Jean Goodrich: A Coming Together to Talk About Being Apart.
This time is to provide space and support for sharing about the impact of our isolation brought on by the pandemic. We ask ourselves about common reactions and their cause and we discuss how we can manage these reactions. We use psychological research, spiritual guidance, telling stories, shaping experience through writing to guide our experience. Dr. Thelma Jean Goodrich, PhD, in addition to being a member of our church and a wonderful addition to the choir is a therapist who, in addition to working with clients, services on the faculty of the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center and Houston Galveston Family Therapy Institute Advisory Council. She also works with the McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, UT-Houston Medical School. Thelma Jean has been worship leader. Dr. Thomas Cole, PhD, in addition to being a regular attender of Covenant, has just been ordained as a Jewish Spiritual Director. He is the director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics and the author of many books. He has been a proclaimer at Covenant and has led Adult Education on multiple topics. |
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February 28: Lisa Spiro's spiritual journey.
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February 21: Dr. Portia Hopkins, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Data Curation for African American Studies at Rice, will join us to discuss the history of St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Missouri City. Founded in 1869 by formerly enslaved people, St John’s has overcome challenges such as racial oppression, arson, and vandalism through the dedication of its small congregation. In 2017, it received a Texas state historical marker, assisted by Dr. Hopkins, who is an expert in community-driven historic preservation.
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February 14: Bill Kline had a fascinating presentation titled "Pumps & Pipes: How I came to discover Houston, love my neighbors, and have more fun than the law allows."
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February 7: Kelli Soika, a member of the leadership team at CoHousing Houston, will speak about the first significant CoHousing community in Houston. Lynn Morstead, another leader in the group spoke to our class about a year ago, to a good reception.
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January 2021 Recordings
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January 31: In keeping with the Adult Education program’s practice of periodically featuring the distinctive interests and gifts of Covenant members, Rebecca Spears will talk about and share her poetry.
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January 3: Ben Ball's spiritual journey.
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December 2020 Recordings
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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. |
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Education for August 2:
Sarah Winter on Therapeutic Horseback Riding |
July Recordings
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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
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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. |
