Online Lectures
Harvard Divinity School Lectures are available online in various formats; you
can watch/listen to them without having to pay the high cost of tuition. Check
out Howard Stevenson’s “What’s Enough? A Conversation Between Harvard
Business School and Harvard Divinity School (April 2010).”
FIND IT @ hds.harvard.edu/news/events_online/whatsenough.html
Faith Practices
From the United Church of Christ comes a whole new way of doing Sunday
school. With a more “emergent” feel, this new curriculum has great activities.
What makes this worth mentioning? It’s non-linear in format and fully available
online, so Sunday school teachers can choose activities to suit their needs,
and it’s geared towards the more tech-savvy generation. Oh, and it includes
the work of a certain gifted writer serving as minister at First, Regina.
FIND IT @ ucc.org/education/practices
Book
Former PBS executive Bob Reed was raised in the Methodist Church but has
since moved on to the denomination known for doing things “decently and in
good order.” In his latest book, How to Survive Being a Presbyterian!: A Merry
Manual Celebrating the Funny Foibles of the Frozen Chosen, Reed examines
what it means to be a part of the Presbyterian Church (USA). As Reed puts
it, “Presbyterianism is a series of meetings occasionally interrupted by a
worship service.” The book is clever and insightful and speckled with witty
interjections by Percy T. Presby, the book’s cartoon narrator.
FIND IT @ amazon.com
Denominations Identified
For whatever reason, the people at Comic Book Religion decided to catalog
comic book characters and other famous figures by their religious affiliations.
According to the site, while the Anglicans have Holmes’ esteemed Dr.
Watson, Presbyterians can boast to having everyone from David Letterman to
New Mutant’s Wolfsbane as well as 50 per cent of cartoon mega-stars The
Simpsons who attend the fictitious “Presbylutheran” church.
FIND IT @ comicbookreligion.com
Bioethics
From the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity comes an interesting article
entitled “Does Alien Hand Syndrome Refute Free Will?” about the relationship
between neuroscience and human nature.
FIND IT @ cbhd.org/content/does-alien-hand-syndrome-refute-free-will
