We are pleased to announce 3 more short courses to complete our Spring 2019 Semester. Courses are $20 ($10 per course for those who have a 2019 ULLI membership). All courses take place in Room 1, Pleasant Hill Community Church, 67 Church Dr, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. For directions, click here.
Tuesdays, April 2-23, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Room 1,
Pleasant Hill Community Church
As we face difficult moral, political, social, and economic decisions, we
long to be certain about what is real and true. But often we are locked into
one or two ways of knowing, of seeing a desired outcome. In this course we use multiple ways of knowing about
what is true to unlock new possibilities. We will
analyze current news topics, “fake news” and important issues identified by the
participants to gain a closer approximation to what is true and what we can do
about it.
Ed Olson, Ph.D., taught in colleges and universities for 40 years.
Currently, he leads workshops for churches and the Chautauqua Institution. He has taught a course and done a Saturday
Seminar for ULLI in the past.
Thursdays, April 11 – May 30, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Room 1, Pleasant Hill Community Church
In this course we will read and
discuss seven short stories. Each story explores the complexity involved in
relationships with others and how this complexity plays a significant role in
our sense of who we are. Because the substance of each meeting will be a
discussion of a particular story, it is important that each participant read
and think about the story before we meet. Each of the stories will be provided
in a digital format, and, if requested, in printed format. Discussion-starter
questions will be distributed to participants before each class session. We
will be reading stories by Graham Greene, Flannery O’Conner, Raymond Carver,
among others.
Ron Johnson has been an English teacher and a pastor. He has a MAT in
teaching English, a PhD in English and American Literature and an MDiv. This is
his second course for us.
Tuesdays, April 30 - May 14,
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Room 1, Pleasant Hill Community
Church
Dealing with differences
as manifested in the diversity of race, gender, age, sexual orientation, class,
and religion require being fully present in our engagement with others.
Contemplative practice rewires our inner life, freeing us from self-oriented
and distorted understandings about persons who are different from us. To see the divine in another person is
to recognize and discover one’s own diversity. Participants will practice
seeing that our fundamental interconnectedness is essential to dismantling the
patterns that lead to bias and oppression.