Sunday, December 28, 2014

Winter Quarter Sunday School Class 2014-1015

READING SCHEDULE
Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in GOD,  by Frank Schaeffer
(Winter Quarter Sunday School Class)

Date Chapters Pages                       Date Chapters Pages

Dec 7       --            --                             Jan 25        XV            75
                                                                                  XVI           78
Dec 14        I            1                                               XVII           83
                  II          10
                                                                 Feb 1      XVIII           89
Dec 21      III          16                                                XIX           92
                 IV          21                                                 XX           95
                   V          25
                                                                   Feb 8      XXI          100
Dec 28       --           --                                               XXII         104
  
Jan 4        VI         29                                Feb 15    XXIII         111
               VII         35
              VIII         39                                 Feb 22   XXIV          124
                                                                                  XXV          129
Jan 11      IX         45                                               XXVI          135
                X         51                                                XXVII          140
               XI         55

Jan 18     XII         58
              XIII         63
              XIV         67

The following are links to various on-line articles:

This is link to article I mentioned that refers to "gift of progressive Christianity."

This is link to the David Brooks Column that Leo Goertz mentioned in class on 2-8-2015.

My horrible right-wing past: Confessions of a one-time religious right icon by Frank Schaffer


A Religion for the Nonreligious by Tim Urba (Wait But Why blog)

How Religion Got in the Way by Tim Urba (Wait But Why blog)

Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation titled “I Am Who I Am” dated December 18, 2014

"Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God", WSJ article by Eric Metaxas,  Dec. 25, 2014

Here is a link to the PDF (searchable) of Franky Schaeffer’s 1981 book Addicted to Mediocrity: 20th Century Christians 
and the Arts, in its revised 1985 edition. The download is about 16MB.

"An Atheist’s Christmas Dream", NY Times article by Mark Bittman (Dec. 25, 2014)

"Religion Without God", NY Times article by T.M. Luhrmann

"Religion’s smart-people problem: The shaky intellectual foundations of absolute faith", Salon article by John G. Messerly

"Major Threat to Religion? Clergy People Coming Out as Atheists", article from AlterNet by Greta Christina

Clif's review of the book "Why I'm an Atheist Who Believes in God" by Frank Schaffer

What Newsweek Gets Wrong About Evangelicals, by Rachel Held Evans, special to CNN

If You Aren’t a Little Bit Agnostic, You Might Not Be Progressive

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