Ethics as Worlds End

The Tuesday night gatherings called “Building the Beloved Community” are for empowerment and community building as well as education.   The evening runs from seven to eight-thirty.   Some of the topics may include:

• Sanctuary Churches as a safe place for undocumented workers.
• Protecting the Right to Free Speech (particularly the right to protest).
• Freedom of Religion (i.e. discuss ban Muslims from entering the U.S.)
• A Humane Guest Worker Program
• Medical Fairness and Care for All A Moral Budget as opposed to a Militarized Budget.
• Education Fairness (should college be free?)
• Worker Fairness and the right to unionize.

There is plenty to talk about.  I am going to kick off the series with three presentations entitled “Ethics As Worlds End” on my personal theological/political journey through exploring 9/11, peak oil, and the end of religion.    I suggest that two powerful myths that guide Americans are “The Myth of Redemptive Violence” and “The Myth of American Exceptionalism.”   I will try to describe what these myths are and how they operate in our culture toward destructive ends, ultimately our demise.

This is my personal story.  What I mean by that is that I will present what I think I know and let others draw their own conclusions.  I won’t argue about or resist other views.  My ultimate goal is to keep a conversation going about the crucial importance of critical thinking about who we are, what we are doing, and where we are going.  7:00pm Room 7, Tuesday nights in May.