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Adult Forum

The Adult Forum Committee of the Board of Deacons seeks to provide a thoughtful and welcoming learning environment for members and friends of Plymouth Congregational Church.

Adult Forums are Sundays, 9 to 10 a.m.,
in the Jackman Room unless otherwise noted. Scroll down for this season's past topics.

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Winter-Spring 2012

Sunday, Feb. 5: Heid Erdrich, director of
Wiigwaas Press, speaks about efforts to
revitalize the Ojibwe language.

Sunday, Feb. 12: Composer and trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe introduces his piece In the Spirit of Being, which premieres Feb. 19 in a WITNESS production. Location: Theater

Sunday, Feb. 19: OutFront Minnesota faith
organizer Javen Swanson shares his conviction that marriage matters personally, politically and spiritually.

Sunday, Feb. 26: Progressive theologian Joerg Rieger on Empire and Economics: The
Difference Religion Makes.

Sunday, March 4: Unarmed Peacekeeping,
Mel Duncan of NonViolent Peaceforce.

Sunday, March 11: 9 a.m.—The Chartres Labyrinth: A Soul's Home, M. J. McGregor.

Sunday March 11: 12:15 p.m. —filmmaker Mara Pelecis shows her documentary Souvenirs: Healing After War.

Sunday, March 18: Discussion of current events.

Sunday, March 25: Human Trafficking—
Trading in Sex and Labor from Bangkok to Minneapolis, presented by Ellen Kennedy.

Sunday, April 1: Barbara Arney addresses How’s Your Inner Marriage?

Sunday, April 8: Easter—no Adult Forum

Sunday, April 15: PBS NewsHour
correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro speaks
about Under-Told Stories—Making the
Foreign Less Foreign.

Sunday, April 22: Living on a Shrinking Planet
—Challenges and Opportunities for a
Sustainable Future; Jonathan Foley, director of
U of M’s Institute on the Environment.

Sunday, April 29: True North Groups—
Enhancing Personal and Leadership
Development, Bill George and Doug Baker, Sr.

Sunday, May 6: The Anti-Marriage Equality
Amendment, A Pro-Marriage Equality Advocate’s View from a Libertarian/Conservative Constitutional Scholar, Dale Carpenter

Sunday, May 13: Ruth Bachman speaks on The Narrow Spot in the Hourglass and her
journey with cancer.

Sunday, Jan. 8: 9 a.m.—Theater director Lear deBessonet shares her journey from
fundamentalist to progressive Christianity.

5 p.m.—Launch of Plymouth READS includes meal ($10; register in advance) and book
discussion of Crossing Over by Ruben
Martinez in Jackman.

Sunday, Jan. 15: Commemorating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Chuck Grose.

Sunday, Jan. 22: Plymouth READS continues—Centro Campesino Interim Executive Director Ernesto Velez speaks about the Latino migrant and immigrant experience in Minnesota.

Sunday, Jan. 29: Plymouth READS continues— Executive Director of Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota John Keller talks about immigrant law and policy.

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Click here for a PDF of the Winter-Spring 2012 flyer of adult learning offerings (legal paper size).

New Testament Greek, 5 p.m., Wednesdays, is one of the Religious Exploration classes. This and other Spiritual Enrichment and Religious Exploration offerings are listed on those pages.

December 4 & 11, 2011
How Do We Build a New Human Story of Our Future? Ann Manning and Gloria Wallace