MLUC – Theology Explorers Group

List of Covered Materials

Theology Explorers – History of Materials Covered 2018-2019

o Previous materials included the Book: Conversations with God by Donald Walsh

o SEPT – Wendy – Book: Why I Left and Why I Stayed-Conversations on Christianity between an Evangelical Father and his Humanist Son  by Tony Campolo and Bart Campolo 

o OCT – Steve – Book: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr

o NOV – Diane – Book: Einstein’s God - Einstein's God: Conversations About Science and the Human Spirit by Krista Tippett

o DEC – Jann – Book: Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes by Charles Hartshorne

o JAN – Rose Marie – Book: After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield

o FEB - Caryn – Book: Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and other Pagans in America by Margot Adler

o MARCH –Christy – selection of books like The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes provided by Christy

o APRIL–canceled

o MAY –Wendy – Book: The Reason For God – Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller

o JUNE –Steve- a compilation of spiritually oriented images collected from the Internet

Theology Explorers – History of Materials Covered 2019 – 2020

o SEPT – Mary – Book: Good Without God by Greg Epstein

o OCT – Emma – Book: Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Normandi Elllis

o NOV – Jann – Book: The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins

o DEC – Rosemarie – Videos: The 5 Best TED talks

o JAN – Peter – Book: The Eagle and the Rose by Rosemary Altea

o FEB - Mary – Book: Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott (topic is prayer)

o MARCH – MARCH – Rose Marie – Video: Ted Talk by Richard Rohr

o APRIL– Steve - Shared a poems or other spiritual materials. [Zoom meeting]

o MAY – Jim – Book: Society Without God by Phil Zuckerman [Zoom meeting]

o JUNE – Caryn – Book:  Morbid Magic: Death, Spirituality, and Culture from Around the World by Tomas Prower [Zoom meeting]

o JULY – AUGUST – GROUP – Shared questions, poems, or other materials. [Zoom meeting]

Theology Explorers – History of Materials Covered 2020 - 2021

o SEPT – Mary – Book Ordinary Magic by John Welwood [Zoom meeting]

o OCT – Jann – Video: The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton [Zoom meeting]

o NOV – Rose Marie – Book: Holy Envy by Barbara Brown Taylor [Zoom meeting]

o DEC – Jim – Paper: The Growth of Organized Religion in the United States: Where Are the Unitarian Universalists by James A. Schmid [Zoom meeting]

o JAN – Wendy – Book: How God Changes Your Brain by Andrew Newberg MD [Zoom meeting]

o FEB – Steve - Book: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt [Zoom meeting]

o MARCH – Gene - Book: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle [Zoom meeting]

o APRIL – Diane - Return to Life:  Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives by Jim B. Tucker, M.D. [Zoom meeting]

o MAY – Nancy - Zombies in Western Culture – A Twenty-First Century Crisis [Zoom meeting]

o JUNE – Caryn - Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway [Zoom meeting]

o JULY – Bill - A Beautiful Question : Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Nobel winning Frank Wilczek [Zoom meeting]

o AUGUST – Steve – Talk about previous years topics and possible topics for next year. [Zoom meeting]

Theology Explorers – History of Materials Covered 2021 - 2022

o SEPT – Mary – Discuss the book The Basic Elements of the Baha’I Faith by Joseph Roy Sheppherd [Zoom meeting]

o OCT – Paul – Discuss the book A Series of Fortunate Events by Sean B. Carroll

o NOV – Marshall - Positive aspects of atheism.  Breaking down discrimination against atheists

o DEC – Dilip – Hinduism For Dummies by Amrutur V Srinivasan

o JAN / FEB – Wendy – God is Not One by Stephen Prothero

o MARCH – Mary Ann – Prayer

o MARCH – Steve - Creation of a Covenant

o APRIL – Diane – Book: Life Lines: Holding On (And Letting Go) by Forrest Church

o MAY – Steve – Consciousness [https://www.darngoodsolutions.com/TECons2/plan.htm]

o JUNE – Art – Book: Believing is Seeing by Michael Guillen, PhD

o JULY – Jann – Book: Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

o AUGUST – Chris – Book: The Atheist Muslim by Ali A. Riz

Theology Explorers – History of Materials Covered 2022 – 2023

o SEPT – Reverend Dave – Book: Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

o OCT – Mary – Book: Love and Death: My Journey Through the Valley of The Shadow by Forrest Church

o NOV – Mary Ann – Book: Zealot by Reza Aslan

o DEC – Gene – Book: Mr g by Alan Lightman

o JAN - Jann – Book: Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das

o FEB – Wendy – Book: How God Works by David DeSteno

o MARCH – Caroline – Book: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

o APRIL – Bob – Book: The Power of Ritual by Casper Ter Kuile

o MAY – Art – The Changing Face of Catholicism

o JUNE – Albert – About Being a Quaker

o JULY – Steve – Reading Tarot Cards: A Personal Perspective

o AUGUST – Sabattical

Theology Explorers – History of Materials Covered 2023 – 2024

o SEPT – Bob & Lisa -Book: A Pilgrimage to Eternity by Timothy Egan

o OCT – Mary – Book: The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism by Matthew Van Natta

o NOV – Paul – Sean Carrol Videos

o DEC – Dawn & Steve – Book: Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson

o JAN - Reverend John Morehouse – Book: Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion by Dr Ilia Delio

o FEB – Ministerial Intern Caroline Bright – Unitarian Universalist Article 2 Commission Report

o MARCH – Wendy – Book: Book of Fire by Sister Helen Prejean

o APRIL – Diane – Book: Galileo’s Error by Philip Goff

o MAY – Jann – Question: What is God to you?

o JUNE – Steve – Emergent Phenomena

o JULY – Lisa – Hell, yes! Hell, no!

o AUGUST – Sabbatical

o 4^th Wed Sessions – Jann & Diane – Book: Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most [Chapters 1 – 8]