11:00 Service ~ Immunity to Change
Robert Kegan, a developmental psychologist at Harvard, has devoted a decade to understanding why we have such a difficult time making much-needed changes in our live. Studies reveal that when people are told they must change or die, only 7% are able to change. What is our resistance to change and how can we overcome it?
Speaker: our minister Cathy Harrington
9:30 Forum (downstairs) ~ Did Jesus Exist?
Speaker: Charles Redwine presents Richard Carrier‘s case for On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt, contrasting “the most credible reconstruction of a historical Jesus with the most credible theory of Christian origins if a historical Jesus did not exist. Such a theory would posit that the Jesus figure was originally conceived of as a celestial being known only through private revelations and hidden messages in scripture; then stories placing this being in earth history were crafted to communicate the claims of the gospel allegorically; such stories eventually came to be believed or promoted in the struggle for control of the Christian churches that survived the tribulations of the first century.”