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Dr. Robin Meyers, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC), a tenured professor in the philosophy department at Oklahoma City University, an author, a syndicated columnist, and an award-winning commentator for National Public Radio. He has been the Senior Minister of Mayflower Congregational UCC church of Oklahoma City, the fastest-growing UCC church in the Kansas-Oklahoma conference, since 1985.

Dr. Robin Meyers was born in Oklahoma City, and grew up in Wichita, Kansas. After graduating from Wichita State University (1975), he received his MDiv from the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University (1979) and his Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey (1981). In 1991 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Oklahoma's Communication Department, for his work in the area of persuasion and preaching.

Meyers is the author of five books, a textbook on preaching entitled: With Ears to Hear: Preaching as Self-Persuasion; Morning Sun on a White Piano: Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life, endorsed by Bill Moyers; The Virtue in the Vice: Finding Seven Lively Virtues in the Seven Deadly Sins, endorsed by Desmond Tutu; Why the Christian Right is Wrong: A Minister’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, and Your Future. And his newest book, Saving Jesus From The Church: How To Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus.

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"SAVING JESUS FROM THE CHURCH"
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Session 1:   "How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus"
Time: 7 pm

"THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH"
Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Session 1:   "Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus"
Time: 9 am

Session 2:  "The Church of the Future and How We Get From Here to There."
A discussion lead by Dr. Meyers.
Time: 11:00 am

Place:

Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
4300 Hampton Heights Drive, Birmingham, AL

Price:

$10 Friday Night
$15 Saturday or $25 for both days

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RIEGER SHARES VIEWS ON EMPIRE, ECONOMICS AND CHRISTIANITY FOR 2011 WILLSON LECTURES

Joerg Rieger was the 2011 Willson Lecturer at the Earlham School of Religion on April 4-5. He presented three lectures on the Richmond, Indiana campus addressing the theme: Empire, Economics, and Christ: Does Christianity Still Make a Difference?

Dr. Rieger is the Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. He has been on the Perkins faculty since 1994 and is the author of a dozen books including: No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics and the Future, Christ and Empire, and Globalization and Theology.

This year’s Willson Lectures reflected Rieger’s interest in the intersection of theology and economics and were a critique of how the Church is often formed by visions of the dominate culture more than by a vision of the Christian gospel. He asked whether the economic adage, “a rising tide lifts all boats” is really true, or whether it has become a principle of “blind faith.” Do economic booms benefit all, or even most? In view of the widening disparity between the wealthy and the poor, between corporate profit and growing unemployment, and in view of the uneven distribution of the national tax burden, it is clear that all boats are not lifted and the most vulnerable in the world have no boat at all.

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Please note that the date of Bishop Spong's lecture series has changed  to the weekend of November 4th & 5th.  Out of town visitors should consider making room reservations as soon as possible, because there are Samford and Birmingham Southern football games on this weekend. 

The weekend lectures were held at South Side Baptist Church located at 1016  19th Street South in Downtown Birmingham, AL.

BIRMINGHAM -- Overall Title: Eternal Life

Friday night at 7:00 PM

Developing a New Angle of Vision -- The old symbols are based on pre-suppositions no longer widely believed.  We must separate the quest for eternity from those symbols.

Saturday morning 9:00 AM until 12:30 PM

The Interconnectedness of Life and the Birth of Self-Consciousness -- From a single cell of life we have journeyed in our evolving history into self-consciousness.

Jesus - A Step Beyond Self-Consciousness into a Universal Consciousness -- Entering the mystical experience at the heart of life and meeting eternity.

TUPELO -- Overall Title: "Jesus for the Non-Religious"

Sunday Afternoon - The Link Centre - November 6, 2011
 
2:00 PM --   "Human Life: Fallen or Incomplete?"
 
4:00 PM --    "Salvation: Rescue from a Fall or Expansion of our Humanity?"

Eighteenth Lecture - The South's Battle Over God - Dr. Wayne Flynt - Birmingham, March 4-5, 2011.

Seventeenth Lecture - Body and Soul: What the Body Knows About God - Barbara Brown Taylor- Birmingham, September 24-25, 2010.

Sixteenth Lecture - The Resurrection: Ancient and Modern - Brandon Bernard Scott - Birmingham, March 26-27, 2010.

Fifteenth Lecture - Exploring the Paradoxes of American Religion - Martin Marty - Birmingham, October 23-24, 2009.

Fourteenth Lecture -Re-imaging the World in Parables - Bernard Brandon Scott, - Birmingham, April 3-4, 2009.

Thirteenth Lecture - A New Look at Old Scripture in Two Sessions - Hal Taussig, - Birmingham, October 26-27, 2008.

Twelfth Lecture - Exploring the Wonder of the Creation - Ursula Goodenough, and The Cosmic Walk, Eleanor DelBene - Birmingham, October 26-27, 2007.

Eleventh Lecture - The Lost Gospels of Christianity: Q - The Gospel of Jesus' Own Disciples, The Four Nag Hammadi Gospels - James M. Robinson, Birmingham, March 9-10, 2007.

Tenth Lecture - Progressive Christianity: A Direction for the Future? - Delwin Brown, Birmingham, November 3-4, 2006.

Ninth Lecture - Jesus and Judaism: Why the Connection Matters - Amy Jill Levine, Birmingham, May 5-6, 2006

Eighth Lecture - Truth & Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Early Christianity - Bart Ehrman - Birmingham, Oct. 28-29, 2005

Seventh Lecture - Paul Then and Now - John Dominic Crossan - Birmingham, May 6-7, 20051

Sixth Lecture - Let Justice Flow Like a Mighty River: Awakening America to God's Demand for Justice - John Cobb and Gary Dorrien, Birmingham, July 8-10, 2004

Fifth Lecture - Using the Bible as a Doorway to God, Not as a Weapon to Undergird Prejudice - John Shelby Spong - Birmingham, March 10-11, 2004

Fouth Lecture - The Heart of Christianity: Seeing the Christian Life Again - Marcus Borg - Birmingham, November 7-8, 2003

SPAFER Two-day Retreat -- Two-day Retreat - Seeing God Through the Eyes of Another Person: World Religions: Same Questions, Different Answers, or Different Questions, Different Answers? and Religious Diversity in the U.S.: What Difference Does it Make? - Lead by Dr. David Bains - Cheaha State Park Alabama, August 16-17, 2002.

Third Lecture - The Courage to Move into the Future and Rethinking Human Sexuality - John Shelby Spong - Birmingham, March 6-7, 2002

Second Lecture - The Search for Authentic Spirituality: Opening Hearts and Minds - Hal Taussig, Ph.D. - Birmingham, Dec. 7-8, 2001

First Lecture - Faith in the Real World - Stephen Patterson, Ph.D. - Birmingham, June 2, 2001