Personal Theology Fall/Winter Series

Sept.18: Rev. Barbara Hamilton-Holway, Co-Minister of Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, former minister in Salt Lake City, author, former Peace Corps Volunteer. “Mosaic Makers.”

Sept. 25: Ellie Hadsall, ordained Kriya Yoga minister and founder of Cosmic Gathering, an organization dedicated to harmony with our planet.  “Agnihotra Fire Ceremony for Personal and Planetary Healing.”

Oct. 2: Rev. Bill Hamilton-Holway, Co-Minister of Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, previously served on staff of the UUA, President of the UU Ministers Association. “50 Years of Unitarian Universalism.”

Oct. 9: Joel Ben Izzy, story teller, for 25 years has been traveling the globe and collecting stories. He has recorded an award winning CD and written an acclaimed memoir of his journey into muteness. “A New Year, A New Story.”

Oct. 16: Young Mi Angela Pak, hospice chaplain, a Catholic convert and Dharma teacher at Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley. “The Earth is my Mother’s Bosom: A Glimpse of my Father’s Religion, the Heavenly Way.”

Oct. 23: Sam Keen, author and philosopher. His books include In the Absence of God, Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred, Sightings, and Fire in the Belly: On Being A Man. “Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred.”

Oct. 30: Jim Conlon, Director of the Sophia Institute at Holy Names University. “Thomas Berry: His Love of the Earth.”

Nov. 6: Bill Garrett, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at John F. Kennedy University and teacher at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute, an adult education program. “The Inevitability of Myth in Human Life.”

Nov. 13: Bill Garrett, “Practical Mythology: the Need for ‘Updates’.”

Nov. 20: Bill Garrett, “A Political and Spiritual Mythology for the Future.”

Nov. 27: Ann Wiser Cornell,  Founder of the Focusing Institute, Past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, “How to be Kinder to Yourself.”

Dec. 4: David Richardson, Quality Controller of the Linear Accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. “Religion and Science Can Be Friends.”

Dec. 11: Walter Truett Anderson, social scientist, author. "We the Planet: Who we become in the 21st Century."

Dec. 18: Jeremy Taylor, founder of an international method of dream work, author and UU minister. “The Problem with the Unconscious is that it Really is Unconscious—Dealing honestly with what we don’t know.”

Dec. 25: Christmas recess.

Jan. 1, 2012: Jeremy Taylor, “Myths, Dreams, and Religion.” Is the search for reliable and responsible perspectives really an individual championship sport, or is it actually still a team sport (even for Unitarian Universalists)?

Jan. 8: Stephen Hermann, clinical psychologist. “Moby Dick, a Myth for our Time.”

Jan. 15: Helene Knox: poet, editor, UU history scholar, “Meet Your Spiritual Ancestors.” Helene will read from her own “snapshot” poems featuring Universalist and Unitarian women and men—their deeds, personalities, and values.

Jan. 22: Hana Matt, teacher of world religions and spiritual direction at the Graduate Theological Union, at Interfaith Spiritual Directors Training Institute, and at the Chaplaincy Institute for Arts. “Bliss in World Religions I.” The many ways to find lasting happiness from indigenous, native, earth-based traditions and also from Hinduism.

Jan. 29: Hana Matt, “Bliss in the World’s Religions II.” We will explore the many ways to find lasting happiness from Buddhism and from Kabala (Jewish spirituality).