Sunday Presentations
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“Kansas City Budget, Going Beyond the Cuts”
Deb Hermann, KC Councilwoman First District at Large
Having led the KC budget Process for 3 of the toughest years in the city’s history, the councilwoman believes the time is here to expand our economic base.
Deb Hermann’s website
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“Space, Race and Identity in Cape Colonial South Africa”
Shannon Jackson, UMKC Associate Professor of Anthropology
We will explore the social meanings that come out of the intersections of architecture and the human body.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“Blood, Fire and Infamy: Kansas City’s Mob History from the 70s”
Verle Muhrer, Philosophy Instructor, Penn Valley Community College
Related link Black Hand Straw Man
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“We Have a Dream: The Kansas City School System”
Airick Leonard West, Kansas City School Board President
We have the opportunity to share our thoughts on what the future of our school system could look like.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“The Questionable Identity of Shakespeare”
Felicia Londre, Curators’ Professor of Theater, UMKC
We’ll examine the evidence concerning the authorship of the plays and sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare and propose Edward De Yere, 17th Earl of Oxford, as the actual author.
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
“Climate Change (Anthropogenic): A Critique of the 12/3 Debate”
Doug Greer, secular humanist tree hugger & Carl Sagan fan who blames America 1st; Kenneth S. Schmitz, UMKC Professor of Environmental and Physical Chemistry;
Don Bell, biblical scholar, debater and debate judge
We will reflect on the experience of putting together climate change naysayers with those knowledgeable about climate change science.
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
“Basics of Family Systems Perspective”
Luis Flores, Longview Community College Instructor of Philosophy and Psychology
We’ll examine family dynamics
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Sunday,
December 19, 20101:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“Leadership in the Secular Community”
Darryl Ray, Ed. D., author of The God Virus
This talk is dedicated to the memory of local long-time secular activist, Woody Williams
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“The Eye: It’s Role in Sleep, Cognition and Well-being.”
Pat Turner, M.D. She was joined by her accomplished husband, Martin Mainster, Ph. D., M. D.
Environmental illumination profoundly influences human health and well-being. In 2002 the discovery of a new class of retinal photoreceptors revealed the important role of light in our physiology and problems resulting from light deficiency
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December 5 “Current Knowledge of Life’s Prehistory and What Darwin
Knew and Didn’t Know About It”
Ron Pine, Ph. D. , explorer, zoologist, former professor, Former Smithsonian Curator, and student of creationism and the paranormal (as a skeptic)
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November 28 “Richard III: Villain or Unjustly Vilified?”
Elizabeth Gerber, Freethought Historian
How and why Shakespeare and Thomas Moore got it wrong as illuminated by Josephine Tey’s, The Daughter of Time
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1:00-3:00 pm COR Sunday Program
“After It’s Over, What Do Your Heirs Do?”
Reg Turnbull, Elder Law Attorney
Most of us know about living wills and powers of attorney. But one of the nicest things you can do for your loved ones is to leave detailed instructions on how to find all your stuff. Reg will fill us in on what would be helpful and also dispel the mysteries of Probate Court.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
“Are CORPORATIONS Buying our Government?”
David Cobb, Attorney and Spokesman for Move To Amend
Is the Supreme court misguided and wrong on the law in its 1/21/10 decision to affirm corporate personhood? The decision opened the floodgates for undisclosed and unlimited funding of mid-term elections.
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Sunday, November 7, 2010:
“Creating Resilient Communities in Metro Kansas City: Transition KC.”
Ben Kjelshus, Green Activist; Michael Hoey, Community Networker; and, Jerry Sargent, President, Community of Reason
We will explore ways to bring together neighborhood/homeowner association representatives to re-purpose uses of over 30 closed KC schools, that will enhance nieghoborhoods
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
“1800 Miles for Reproductive Justice”
Rev. Rebecca Turner, Executive Director, Faith Aloud.
How one baby boomer survived a 6-week bicycle tour with backroads terrain, bad drivers, scorching heat, aching joints and 13 mellenialists.
For more information, go to FaithAloud.org
Read Rev. Turner’s essay on the Essays on Philosophy and science Page of this website
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