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T. O. P.
Maintaining Integrity with
Hope & Courage
Theological Opportunities Program-Thursday Half-Day Conferences

March 27, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
"WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY AMERICA?": HOW CAN WE LIVE LIVES OF RESISTANCE IN THIS CURRENT CULTURE?
 
Setting the issue: Sue Gracey*  (Click here for biolab info!)
Lecture by Klare Allen, activist for environmental justice
 
April 3 , 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
HOW DO I HOLD MY INTEGRITY IN A CULTURE WHOSE VALUES OPPOSE MINE?
 
Setting the issue: Monique Marimoto Flaherty*
Lecture by Jesse Mermell, selectman, Town of Brookline; executive director, FairTest
 
April 10, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
WHO HOLDS THE POWER?-WHO CAN BREAK THE RULES?
 
Setting the issue: Elizabeth Wolfe Morse*
Lecture by Brian Corr, field organizer, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
 
April 17, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
HOW DO I HOLD ONTO MY SPIRITUAL CORE?
 
Setting the issue: Carol Johnson*
Lecture by Valerie Dixon, prof Christian ethics, Andover-Newton Theological School
 
April 24, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
REGAINING OUR BALANCE AFTER 9/11
 
Lecture by Judith Herman, psychiatrist, author of Trauma and Recovery, Victims of Violence program
Lecture by Robert J. Lifton, psychiatrist, author, scholar/ activist on themes of holocaust and transformation
 
 May 1, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
HOW DO WE OVERCOME THE INEQUALITY OF HEALTH CARE?
 
Setting the issue: Cynthia Gilles*
Lecture by Matthew Dumont, psychiatrist, community health activist, author of Treating the Poor
 
May 8, 2008 -10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
U.S. HISTORY: RHETORIC vs. REALITY
 
Setting the issue: George Swanson
Lecture by James Green, historian, U Mass Boston
 
May 15, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
WHERE IS THE TRUTH AND THE JUSTICE IN THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE?
 
Setting the issue: Jadzia Allison*
Lecture by Alexandra Pineros-Shields, professor of global studies & immigration policy, Providence College, Rhode Island
 
May 22, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
PROs & CONs OF GLOBALIZATION
 
Setting the issue: Christine Farrow-Noble*
Lecture by Catherine Mann, prof of international economics and finance, Brandeis
 
May 29, 2008 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
 
WHAT IS OUR LEGACY TO OUR CHILDREN & GRANDCHILDREN?
 
Setting the issue: Pat* & Jim Morris
Lecture by Jean McGuire, exec dir METCO
 
*- Advisory Committee member
 
Thursdays 10AM-1PM at University Lutheran Church, Cambridge MA - for 18 months while Rockefeller Hall at HDS is being renovated.
University Lutheran Church is at 66 Winthrop St, just east of JFK St near the Kennedy School.
To register for the series or for more info: TOP, 4 Linden Sq, Wellesley MA 02482 • 781-235-5320
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February 5, 2008
  
DEAR FRIENDS:
The theme of this Spring's lecture series, MAINTAINING INTEGRITY WITH HOPE & COURAGE, allows us to explore the pathway of integrity, its signposts and its pitfalls.

In the first five lectures we are asking questions about maintaining integrity amid the pressures oftoday's culture. Then the series takes a sharp turn, and the topics and issues of the last five sessions may not seem congruent with our theme.

These last five sessions focus upon extremely thorny and divisive issues in our culture today, from immigration to globalization. Our nation is deeply divided over these issues and there are good and ethical people taking positions on either side.

So our attempt in these lectures is to illuminate the issue - so each of us, in the privacy of our own innermost ethical being, can determine our own position of integrity.

This should be a challenging Spring journey, and we hope you will plan to join us. I especially want to highlight the morning of April 24th when Judith Herman and Robert Jay Lifton will be co-lecturing on "Regaining Our Balance after 9/11." Bring a friend.

Our Advisory Committee has decided on a new beginning for our Thursdays. We will begin at 10:00AM by singing one of our favorite Carolyn McDade songs. We will also shorten our announcement time in order that our first speaker can begin at 10:15.

Cordially,

Elizabeth Dodson Gray

PS Cheers for us and the TOP Annual Fund! We are almost at our goal. So you who already have given should treat yourselves to a big smile for your job well-done.

But if you have not yet done your part for the TOP Annual Fund, then the words ''almost at our goal" are your cue to pick up your pen and write a check. Surely the pathway of integrity involves supporting the projects you believe in. Click on the Donate tab at the top of this page to find out how.

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