Respectful discussion for open minds and inquiring hearts about creation, evolution, and ways that science and faith inform each other.

4th Sundays, 1 pm

October 2011 to February 2013

Free and open to the public.

Lunch provided for the first 30 participants.

Theme 1: Issues in Faith and Science

October 30, 2011
What do you know about faith and science?
Dr. Megan Hoffman, professor of biology at Berea College, and the Rev. Richard Burden, priest-in-charge at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, lead a discussion about issues in science and theology, laying the groundwork for the series.

November 27, 2011
The Catechism of Creation
Dr. Robert J. Schneider, retired professor of general studies and classical languages, discusses the Episcopal Church's Catechism of Creation, which he helped author, as one church's approach to the issue of science and faith, and how other denominations state their own approaches.

Note: There will be no meeting in December.

Additional sessions are planned as follows (subject to change):

Theme 2: Science through the Prisms of Faith

January 22, 2012
Panel discussion with religious leaders

February 26, 2012
Clergy letter project

March 25, 2012
What about God?

April 22, 2012
Panel discussion with students

May 27, 2012
National speaker

Theme 3: Science & Faith in Non-Fiction & Fiction (Summer Reading)

June 24, 2012
Popular science

July 29, 2012
Fiction

August 26, 2012
TBD

Theme 4: Focused topice: What says the science? What says the faith?

September 23, 2012
TBD

October 28, 2012
TBD

November 25, 2012
TBD

Note: There will be no meeting in December.

Theme 5: Continuing the conversation

January 27, 2013
Personal reconciliations of science & faith

Feburary 24, 2013
Evolution Sunday: Building a community for conversations