12-20-2015
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Fireside Room

December 6: Nature’s Weird Laws: Entanglement, etc Stan Klein
December 13: How Science has contributed to morals and ethics
Paul Ulbrich
December 20: Why men fight Moshe
2 pm Holiday Party and Constitutional Discussion

November 1: The Sixth Extinction Lee Lawrence
November 8: Thinking and Political Parties Marcia Bates
November 15: Congregational Conversation
2 pm E.O. Wilson and Socio-Biology Sterling Bunnell
November 22: The Current Political Debate: Lee Lawrence
November 29: What is Reality: Objective, Subjective Stuart Sugden

October 4: Movies in American Culture Robert Hall
October 11: Search Committee Focus Group
1:30 Lobbying Alan Fong
October 18: Congregational Conversation
October 25: Endangered species in the Bay Area Sterling & Seth Bunnell

September 6: Mass Migration and Climate Change Sterling Bunnell
September 13: Super PACs vs Small Donor Matching Lee Lawrence
September 20: Mr. and Mrs. God: Genesis Revisited Ray Nelson
September 27: Co-Housing Pro and Con: Stuart Sugden, Marcia Bates
Book Club: 2 pm Lone Survivors Don Anderson

August 2: Trust Women and She-Heroes, Kathy Rai
August 9: What do You Have to Hide: Surveillance, Harold Ogren
August 16: Advances in Social Equality, Retreat in Economic Equality, Stuart Sugden
August 23: Education and the Internet, Paul Ulbrich
August 30: Interactions between Language, Culture and Individual Thinking, Anne Chapman
Book Club, 2pm: The Grain Brain, David Perlmutter

July 5: Truth, Beauty, and Good Don Anderson
July 12: The University: Past, Present, and Future Sterling Bunnell
July 19: Conspiracy Theories Mary Muehlbach Nicky Karam Kathy Rai
July 26: Artificial Intelligence Ray Nelson
Book Club: 2 pm Chris Hedges Helene Knox

June 7: “California Drought,” Sandy Nixon
June 14: “Sanders’ Policies and Humanist Foreign Policy,” Lee Lawrence/Earl Williamson
June 21: “Descriptive & Comparative Ethics,” Don Anderson
June 28: “The Goddess Isis,” Ray Nelson
2:00 p.m. Humanist Book Club: “The Moral Arc (Michael Shermer),” Paul Ulbricht

May 3: “Fanzine: the Art of Amateur Publication,” Ray Nelson
May 10: “A God that Could Be Real (Nancy Abrams),” Stan Klein
May 17: 12:15 p.m. Congregational Meeting
2:15 p.m. “Epigenetics/Epigenesis,” Sterling Bunnell
May 24: “American Class Culture,” Earl Williamson
May 31: “Humanist Theism,” Rev. Jay Atkinson

April 5: “Getting Spaces: How the Brain Processes Place,” Gabriel Escobar
April 12: “Humor and Humanism: Really Good Jokes (bring some!)”
April 19: 12:30 pm Congregational Conversation #6: After-Pastor
2:00 pm “ISIS (or ISIL) philosophy, social mechanisms,” Paul Ulbrich
April 26: “Death: David Hume, Oliver Sacks,” Don Anderson
2 pm Book Club: The English Passengers Sterling Bunnell

March 1: The Common Core: Pluses and Minuses, Anne Chapman
March 8: Alternatives to Capitalism, Stuart Sugden

February 1: Humanist Ethics, Earl Williamson
February 8: Congregational Meeting in Sanctuary
February 15: Update: Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Mary Muehlback
February 22: First 1000 Days of Life and Universal Pre-School, Lee Lawrence

January 11: Congregational Meeting “Where are we Going?”
January 18: The New Jim Crow and Selective Policing, Mary Muehlbach
January 25: Immortality –Would you choose it? Stuart Sugden