Sea of Faith in Australia

Brisbane Brookfield Group

The Brookfield SoF group meets monthly at 7.30pm on the 1st Sunday of each month at the Brookfield Centre, 139 Brookfield Rd, Kenmore Hills. Contact: Helen Mason (07) 38708565.

2010 Meetings

7th Feb             Early Churches, Sacred Spaces (John Carr)

7th Mar             A humanist's perspective on Judaism - progressive or otherwise (Neal Ashkanasy, Professor of Management UQ)            

4th Apr             The silent period of Jewish history - around 200BCE (Charles Kimber)

2nd May           My own journey and changing understanding of spirituality (Terry Fitzpatrick)

6th June            The ideas of Don Cupitt as a spiritual resource (Judith Bore)

4th July              Imaging Self and Imaging God - Lacan's concept of ego formation (Garth Everson)

1st Aug              Should homosexual couples have the same rights as heterosexual couples? (Moderator of discussion: Peter Bore)

5th Sep              Forgiveness (Ingerid Meagher)

3rd Oct              A Biologist's views about latest findings to do with the brain and the mind (Stella O'Donnell)

7th Nov            To be decided   

1st Dec            The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Des Derrington, retired Supreme Court judge)           

2009 Meetings

February 1      Aristotle’s God as the Unmoved Mover (Michael Dyson, philosopher)

March 1          The Hidden Moral Questions of Economics and Ideology.  Capitalism in a Crisis? (Rod Jensen, economist)

April 5            The Experience of Suffering: How does suffering change us?   (Judith Bore)

May 3            Consciousness and The Cunning of Reason  (Mike Dale, Retired CSIRO Scientist)

Jun 7             Awakened living: Zen in everyday life  (Mervyn Lander, Anglican priest, retired doctor)

July 5            The Ideology of War and Peace  (Ralph Summy, retired head of Peace Studies UQ)

Aug 2            Is God Back?  (Rodney Eivers)

Sept 6           Aspects of Aldous Huxley's Thinking  (Vanessa de Vos)

Oct 4             Possible Implications of the Quantum Theory  (Merv Bengston)       

Nov 1            Confucius and Confucianism  (Des Derrington, retired supreme court judge)

Dec 6            Discussion on various articles from the press  (Peter Bore)

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