Join Greg McGonigle and Mary Grigolia (Oberlin UU Fellowship) for an introduction to walking meditation, including using the new Oberlin College portable labyrinth. Tuesday 9/20 at 7:30 pm in Wilder Main. For more information please contact Rev. Greg McGonigle.

Angela Kraft Cross, M.D. and church and concert organist from the San Francisco Bay Area, will perform a Benefit Concert for Peace Community Church (44 E. Lorain St.) on Tuesday, 9/20 at 7:30 pm, featuring works of German Masters Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. The concert will help defray the costs of housing and sharing this beautiful organ with the wider community. A free will offering will be received during the program. A reception will follow. Parking is located behind the church. Handicapped access is available. For more information please contact Rev. Mary Hammond.

Thursday, 9/22, 4:30 pm, Hallock Auditorium

The Artz Anderson Lecture Series presents Robert Chazan, S.H. and Helen Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judiac Studies at New York University, who will discuss anti-Jewish violence throughout history.

9/30 8 pm, 10/1-2, 8pm, Warner Mainspace; Free but ticketed, tickets available in Hall

What if Charles Darwin had fathered a child when his ship, HMS Beagle stopped briefly at Tierra del Fuego? What if this great-great-great-great-love grandchild of the father of natural selection were named-not Groucho, Harpo, Curly or Gogo-but Cristóbal? What if this intense, seriously ridiculous savant, illiterate but deeply knowledgeable about the theory of natural selection were on tour bringing his postmodern spin on the origin of species to your hometown? You'd be looking at a once in a lifetime chance to see Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man, a swashbuckling, one-man "tour de farce" that deftly skewers everything you think you know about Darwin. It is a unique and imaginative trip 'round Darwinism, deep time, evolution, and survival of the fittest that's also serious fun. Conceived by playwright Glen Berger and writer-performer Brett Keyser (appearing in the role of Cristóbal). Presented by the Mead-Swing Lectureship Fund, the Leading Edge Fund for the Humanities, the Student Assemblies Committee, the Oberlin College Biology Department, and the Oberlin College Theatre and Dance Program.

Mary Grigolia will lead a three-session workshop with insights and techniques from neuroscience for maintaining a peaceful, creative, playful and caring mind. Don't be bullied by procrastination, depression or anxiety. Tuesdays 10/4, 11, and 18 from 7:30-8:30 pm at the Multifaith Center (68 S Professor). For more information please contact Rev. Mary Grigolia.

Rev. Irene Monroe, an African American lesbian feminist theologian, pastor and activist, will be on campus Monday 10/10 offering a workshop on "Challenging Spiritual Violence Against LGBT People" at 4:30 pm in Wilder 112 and a lecture on "The Black Church and LGBT People" at 7:30 pm in West Lecture Hall. Monroe is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary and is a Th.D. candidate at Harvard University. She writes and speaks widely on issues of religion, race, gender and sexuality, including her Huffington Post blog. Sponsored by ORSL, the MRC My Name Is My Own Series, and Queers and Allies of Faith. For more information please contact Rev. Greg McGonigle.

Saturday, 10/15, 10 am, Meet at the southeast corner of Tappan Sq. across from Aladdin's

 

Rev. Steve Hammond, Co-Pastor of Peace Community Church and ORSL Protestant Religious Life Affiliate, will give a walking tour of Oberlin's deep religious heritage including the founding of the colony and college, co-education, African American inclusion, abolitionism and the Underground Railroad, Charles Finney, the School of Theology, the Memorial Arch, and the women's rights, temperance, civil rights, peace, LGBT and green movements. For more information please contact Rev. Greg McGonigle.

Sunday 10/16: Garhwali (Himalayan) Music

 

The Mead-Swing Lectureship Fund presents the Lecture-Demonstration "Music in Indian Himalayan Possession Ceremonies" by Pritam Bhartwan with Dr. Stefan Fiol.Additional sponsors include the Musicology Department, Oberlin Shansi, and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. Free and open to the public. For more information please contact Professor Jennifer Fraser.

11/4-5: Hear world-renowned keynote speakers Joan Chittister, OSB and Shane Claiborne. Choose from more than 30 engaging workshops. Connect with a variety of vibrant monastic communities - both 'traditional' and 'new'.

 

Just a week and half left for early registration and lower rates--early registration ends 9/23. 

Register with a group of students today.

Roy Mottahedeh, Professor of Islamic History and Director of the Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, and author of "The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran", will speak on "Friendship in Islamic Ethical Thought" on Monday 11/7 at 4:30 pm in West Lecture Hall. He will also deliver a visual presentation on "Felines in Islamic Art and Culture" on Tuesday 11/8 at 1 pm in King 106. Sponsored by the Mead-Swing Lectureship Committee. For more information please contact Professor Jafar Mahallati.