Lecture 1
Dr. James Hansen, NASA
Author, Storms of my Grandchildren
Global Warming is Here. It is worse than it looks.
But there is a way out.
Sunday, February 24, 2013, 7 p.m.
Claremont United Methodist Church, 211 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont, CA
Lecture 2
The Rev. Romal Tune
Author, God’s Graffiti: God’s Word Written on your Life
Mass Incarceration and the Legacy of Jim Crow: The Urgent Need
for a Faith Community Response
Sunday, March 3, 2013, 7 p.m.
Trinity United Methodist Church,676 Gibbs St., Pomona, CA
Lecture 3
Bishop Minerva Carcaño
Official spokesperson on immigration issues
for the United Methodist Church
The Dream Act and a Just Immigration Policy
Sunday, March 10, 2013, 7 p.m.
Claremont Presbyterian Church, 1111 N. Mountain Ave., Claremont, CA
Lecture 4
Dr. Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Author, It’s Even worse than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism
(with Dr. Thomas Mann, The Brookings Institution)
It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, but There is a Way Out
Sunday, March 17, 2013, 7 p.m.
Claremont United Church of Christ, 233 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont, CA
Lecture 5
James Carroll, Boston Globe
Author, Constantine’s Sword, House of War, and Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City
Ignited our Modern World
From History to Hope: the Way Out of Environmental Degradation,
Global Impoverishment, and Unchecked Militarism
Sunday, April 7, 2013, 7 p.m.
La Verne Church of the Brethren, 2425 “E” Street, La Verne, CA
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To secure a series ticket for the 2013 Agenda for a Prophetic Faith, go to the registration page.
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Agenda for a Prophetic Faith is a program of Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU), an expression of social concern among various Christian churches in Southern California. Single lecture tickets, $10.Low-income and scholarship tickets are available: JForney170@aol.com. Students free upon display of Student ID.
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Why a project with the Biblical-sounding name, “Agenda for a Prophetic Faith?” And why, for our first lecture series, the title “It’s even worse than it looks, but there is a way forward,” a title at once both provocative and reassuring? Check “Why this lecture series?”
