Thursdays, 12:00 Noon
Elliott Library, Room 507

Bring your lunch and join Leader Dr. Anne Klaeysen for in depth discussions on a variety of timely subjects.

Upcoming topics:  

• 11/3-  Occupy Wall Street Movement (various articles)
• 11/10- “More than 1 Billion People are Hungry in the World” by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Foreign Policy, May/June 2011
• 11/17- “Maslow 2.0: A New and Improved Recipe for Happiness” by Hans Villarica, The Atlantic, 8/11 “What Is a Good Life?” by Ronald Dworkin, The NY Review of Books, 2/10/11
• 11/24-NO SESSION- (Thanksgiving)
• 12/1 – Religion  (various articles) Room for Debate, October 2011
• 12/8 – “In the Clear: On Scientology” by Mark Oppenheimer, Foreign Policy, October 18, 2011

  “Scientology and Its Discontents” by Seth Perry, The Chronicle, October 2, 2011
• 12/15 – “In Focus: Mormonism in Modern America” an interview with Russell Nelson, Lance Wickman and Robert Ruby, The Pew Forum, May 16, 2007Poll: “A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S.” The Pew Forum, July 24, 2009
• 12/22 – “Varieties of Irreligious Experience” by Jonathan Ree, New Humanist, September/October 2011
• 12/29 – “Where Does Religion Come From?” by Heather Horn, The Atlantic, August 2011
   “Where Did Religion Come From?” by Robert N. Bellah, The Immanent Frame, Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere website, November 2, 2011
• 1/5 –  "Teaching Good Sex," by Laurie Abraham, The NY Times, 11/16/11
• 1/12 –  "Sleeping With the Enemy" by Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8/15/11zabeth Kol11/1 
• 1/19 – "It Does Take a Village" by Melvin Konner, review of "Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins  
  of Mutual Understanding" by Sarah Blaffer Hardy, The NY Review of Books, 12/8/11
• 1/26 – "Does Evil Exist? Neuroscientists Say No" by Ron Rosenbaum, Slate, 9/30/11
• 2/2 – The European Union and the Financial Crisis (various articles)
• 2/9 – “End Corporate Personhood” by Thom Hartmann, at www.truth-out.org
• 2/16 – “Creation Myth” by Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, 5/16/11
• 2/23 – Class, Self-Reliance, and Jobs ( various articles)