Sea of Faith in Australia
Melbourne Group
Melbourne Group
The Melbourne SoF group meets monthly on a Thursday at 7.30pm at the Carlton Library Meeting Room, corner Rathdowne and Newry Streets, North Carlton. (Melways Map: 2B, J2) Contact Chantal Babin (0434 713 335). Gold coin donation appreciated. Lectures are followed by questions, discussion and supper.
2010 PROGRAM
18 February 2010
Paul Murchison
"Dogmatism: The Closed-Mind's Firewall."
( 12-14 March 2010 - Friday to Sunday.
Global Atheist Conference, Melbourne Convention Centre - www.atheistconvention.org.au
"The Rise of Atheism." Speakers - Richard Dawkins, Taslima Nasrin, Peter Singer, et al. )
18 March 2010
Dr. Joseph Gelfer
"Undoing Christian Masculinities."
( 15-18 April 2010 - Thursday to Sunday.
Common Dreams Conference, St Kilda Town Hall - www.commondreams.org.au
"Living the Progressive Religion Dream." Speakers - Gretta Vosper, Francis Macnab, Val Webb, et al. )
22 April 2010 (4th Thursday)
Rev. Dr. Paul Tonson
"Your karma has run over my dogma: Biblical affirmation of pluralism."
20 May 2010
Brent McAuslan (Former Facilitator, Rajneesh USA).
"Redemption and Salvation: Should Satan Be Forgiven?"
17 June 2010
Alex McCullie
(Tutor, Council for Adult Education)
"Progressive Christianity: A Secular Response." –
15 July 2010
Rick Barker
(Philosophy Forum)
"Living with our genetic/epigenetic inheritances: Do you have a 'ghost' in your genome?"
19 August 2010
Rev. Dr. John Bodycomb
(Progressive Christian Network - www.pcnvictoria.org.au )
"Is science a surer way to God than religion? Is Paul Davies right?"
23 September 2010 (4th Thursday)
John Noack
(Carl Jung Society - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~jungsoc )
"Pre-Nicaean Christian Kingdoms: Edessa, Adiabene and Armenia."
21 October 2010 - Topic to be announced.
18 November 2010
Dr. Christopher Gribbin (Classics & Archaeology, University of Melbourne)
"Classical Mythology and Greek Religion."
www.onthe.net.au/~cgribbin/summerschool
9 December 2010 (2nd Thursday)
Dr. Robert Miller (Philosophy, RMIT University)
"Buddhist Existentialism, Socratic Philosophy, Zen Emptiness and a Postmodern Poetics of Bliss."
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~exist/pdf/2009_November.pdf
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