November 2011
Cynthia Garrison
Date: Wednesday, Nov 16 Time: 6:00 p.m.
5:30 p.m. - Optional family-friendly meal in the Shawver Welcome Center
Speaker Location: Chapel
Anger and Parenting
Most of us find these two topics intersecting more than we expected they would before we were parents and more than we wish they would now that we are. Often we think of anger as a "negative" emotion, yet anger is a normal part of the human experience. Using real-life examples Cynthia will take research-based information on effective parenting and turn it into educational and entertaining solutions for parenting challenges, including bringing good out of the experience of anger.
Cynthia Garrison, MS, CFLE, CAMS, founder of CG Resources has both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Child and Human Development and Family Studies with her Masters minor in Counseling. Cynthia has been featured in the Dallas Morning News, Plano Star Courier, Plano Profile, and Fox 4 News and supports families through a regular radio show in Dallas
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January 2012
Dr. William J. Abraham
Date: Thursday, Jan 12
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Ogden Fellowship Hall
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Faith and Neuroscience
From the time of Galileo to Newton to Darwin, new discoveries in science have both informed and challenged the claims of religion. In modern times research in neuroscience seems to be leading toward a discovery of a neurological basis for consciousness and a sense of self. How will these discoveries inform and challenge religious ideas about a self and a soul that can exist apart from the physical brain? Dr. Abraham will explore this question and how future tensions between faith and science may develop.
Professor William J. Abraham is the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
His books across the last twenty five years include: The Divine Inspiration of Holy Scripture (Oxford, 1981), Divine Revelation and the Limits of Historical Criticism (Oxford, 1992), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Prentice-Hall, 1985), The Logic of Evangelism (Eerdmans, 1989); The Logic of Renewal (Eerdmans, 2004); John Wesley for Armchair Theologians (Westminster/John Knox, 2005); and Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation (Eerdmans, 2006). In 1991 he wrote a major review article on “The State of Christian Theology in North America” for the Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Ideas Today. His work in Wesley Studies is currently represented by his co-editing (with Professor James Kirby) of The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies.
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November 2012
Melanie Gordon
Date: Wednesday, Nov 7
Bullying
Melanie is the Director of Ministry with Children for the General Board of Discipleship of the United Methodist Church.
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