The Sounding Board - Memorial Church - Harvard University

Faith & Life Forum
The Faith & Life Forum explores issues of faith in
our devotional and public life. The Forum meets
on Sunday mornings beginning at 9:00 a.m. with
continental breakfast and conversation followed by
a speaker and program from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Participants may remain for informal discussion
until the beginning of the 11:00 a.m. worship
service. For further information please contact The
Reverend Dr. Dorothy A. Austin at daustin@fas.
harvard.edu, or the church office at 617-495-5508.
The Faith & Life Forum
Evening Lectures
Wednesday, December 8, 7:00 p.m.
Beyond Colorblindness: Re-framing Race, Class, and
Gender for the New America
Lecturer: The Reverend Rosemary Bray McNatt
Born into poverty in 1960’s Chicago, The Reverend
Rosemary Bray McNatt learned at an early age to
navigate the turbulent waters of race, class and gender.
In this lecture, the author of the memoir, Unafraid of
the Dark Unitarian Universalist Minister in New York
City, and this year’s Advent Missioner at Harvard,
reflects on the qualities of cultural awareness, curiosity
and appreciation that have helped to shape her life.
Friday, January 14, 7:00 p.m.
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Lecturer: Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, the award-winning, best-selling
author of A History of God and more than twentyfive
best-selling books on the subject of religion,
returns to The Memorial Church to speak to us
about the “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life,”
the subject of her new book. An engaging and spirited
lecturer, vastly learned and deeply engaged in the
world’s religious troubles, Karen Armstrong teaches
and inspires whenever she speaks to the Faith &
Life Forum.
Visiting Preachers – Fall term 2010-2011
September 26
The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
The Reverend Javier Viera
Minister for Outreach and Development, Christ Church,
New York, New York
October 10
The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
The Reverend Kent Montgomery French
Lead Pastor, First Congregational Church, Bellingham, Washington
October 24
The Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
The Reverend Canon Dr. Titus Presler
Interim Pastor, Saint Simon the Cyrenian Episcopal Church,
New Rochelle, New York
October 31
The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
The Reverend Dr. Anthony Campolo
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Eastern University;
Founder and President of the Evangelical Association for the
Promotion of Education (EAPE), St. Davids, Pennsylvania
November 7
The Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost;
Commemoration of All Saints and All Souls
The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Dr. John Sentamu
Ninety-seventh Archbishop of York; The Lord Runcie of Cuddeston
Distinguished Visiting Preacher
November 21
The Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King; The Sunday
Next before Advent; Thanksgiving and Stewardship Sunday
The Reverend John T. Walsh
Omer E. Robbins Chaplain to the University of Redlands,
Redlands, California
December 5
The Second Sunday of Advent
The Reverend Rosemary Bray McNatt
Senior Minister, Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York;
Advent Missioner in The Memorial Church
January 2
The Second Sunday after Christmas
Sister Carolyn Darr, SSM
Superior, The Society of St. Margaret, Boston; Affiliated Minister in
The Memorial Church
January 9
The First Sunday after the Epiphany
The Reverend Dr. Sarah Birmingham Drummond
Associate Dean of the Faculty and Assistant Professor of Ministerial
Leadership, Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton, Massachusetts;
Affiliated Minister in The Memorial Church
January 16
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill
Dean of Marsh Chapel, Chaplain to the University, and Professor of
New Testament and Pastoral Theology, Boston University
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