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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