Mayflower WEBBS Study Group

Introduction

The Wednesday Evening Brown Bag Study (WEBBS) group meets every Wednesday evening from 6:00pm to 7:00pm just prior to choir practice. This allows choir members to participate in a study group here at Mayflower. However, WEBBS is open to anyone interested in attending. You need not be a choir member or even a member of Mayflower.

Current Study

The WEBBS group started its fall session Wednesday September 15 reading the book by Karen Armstrong, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Ballantine Books, 1993. The group decided to cover one chapter per week. Each participant is asked to summarize three key elements from each chapter as a starting point for the discussions.

WEBBs Schedule

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Date	Topic	Pages	Facilatator
9/15/10	Chapter 1 In the Beginning	pp. 1-39	Lowell Adams
9/22/10	Chapter 2 One God	pp. 40-78	Willie
9/29/10	Chapter 3 A Light to the Gentiles	pp. 79-106	Lowell Adams
10/6/10	Chapter 4 Trinity: The Christian God	pp. 107-131	Michael Soderstrand
10/13/10	Chapter 5 Unity: The God of Islam	pp. 132-169	Martha
10/20/10	Chapter 6 The God of the Philosophers	pp. 170-208	Nancy
10/27/10	Chapter 7 The God of the Mystics	pp. 209-256	Margaret
11/3/10	No Session Mayflower Annual Meeting	None
11/10/10	Chapter 8 A God for Reformers	pp. 257-292	Nancy/Bob
11/17/10	Chapter 9 Enlightenment	pp. 293-345	Rusty
11/24/10	No Session Day before Thanksgiving	none
12/1/10	Chapter 10 The Death of God?	pp. 346-376	Adam Rackis
12/8/10	Chapter 11 Does God Have a Future?	pp. 377-400	Priscilla Decker

Everyone is invited to attend -- especially newcomers!

NOTE:  For more information contact Michael Soderstrand at 405-334-8329 or soderstrand@ieee.org.

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Previous Study

The Wednesday Evening Brownbag Book Study (WEBBS) completed reading two books simultaneously (Francis S. Collins, The Language of God, Free Press, 2006 and George C. Cunningham, Decoding the Language of God, Prometheus, 2010).  The first book is a scientists defense of Christianity and the second book is an atheists response.  This was a lively discussion.

Click here to download the reading schedule.

1. Click here to download the May 5 Week 1 Study Guide
2. Click here to download the May 12 Week 2 Study Guide
3. Click here to download the May 19 Week 3 Study Guide (Click here to download the an article on Process Theology and the Problem of Suffering and Evil)
4. Click here to download the May 26 week 4 Study Guide
5. Click here to download the June 2 week 5 Study Guide
6. Click here to download the June 9 week 6 Study Guide
7. Click here to download the June 16 week 7 Study Guide
8. Click here to download the June 23 week 8 Study Guide
9. Click here to download the June 30 week 9 Study Guide (Click here to download the complete Bourchard and McGue twin's study)

Additional Resources

• Click here to download the Scientific America article on Life in a Test Tube
• Click here to download the Time Magazine interview of Collins and Dawkings

NOTE: The Collins and Cunningham study was the last in our series before the summer break. The new session will start in the fall (second Wednesday after Labor Day, Wednesday Sept. 15).

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