Wednesdays, 5-6 pm, Multifaith Center

This weekly tea is open to all as a place to relax, meet people, and reconnect over tea and cookies. Members of the Friendship Circle will also be present to discuss Friendship Initiative related projects. Sponsored by ORSL and the Friendship Circle.

Thursday, 9/20, 4:30 pm, Hallock Auditorium

Margot Adler has been a correspondent for NPR for 33 years, covering New York City, as well as politics and culture. A practicing Pagan since 1972, and an elder in the Pagan movement, she is the author of "Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess Worshippers and Other Pagans in America," the classic study of modern earth religions and women's spirituality. She is also the author of "Heretic's Heart", a personal memoir of the 1960s and 70s and her own activism in the civil rights and free speech movements. She is currently writing a book about vampires and their popularity in our culture. Sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.

Friday, 9/21, Noon, Wilder 109

Members of Oberlin's Muslim community and allies will gather to decry and mourn the recent anti-Islamic film and resulting violence around the world. Come together to process these events and to respond in prayer, mutual education, affirmation of shared values, and community building. Sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.

Friday, 9/21, 4:30 pm, King 306

Professor Peter Machinist, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University, will lecture on "The Question of Job: Some Reflections on the Biblical Book." For more information please contact Professor Cindy Chapman.

Saturday, 9/22, 10 am-12:30 pm, First Church

Sponsored by Family Promise of Lorain County.

Tuesday, 9/25, 7 pm, First Church in Oberlin (UCC)

Candidates for the newly-drawn 4th Congressional District will debate. Jim Jordan, the Republican incumbent, Jim Slone, Democrat, and Chris Kalla, Libertarian. This nonpartisan public event is offered as a service to the voting public by the League of Women Voters of the Oberlin Area. City council member and League member Sharon Soucy will introduce the participants as well as moderate the audience participation portion of the event through submitted questions. Questioning the candidates will be Andrew Young, editor of Elyria's Chronicle Telegram, Roy Church, president of Lorain County Community College, and Oberlin College geology professor Bruce Simonson. For more information please contact Linda Slocum.

Thursday, 9/27, 7:30 pm, King 306

Dr. David Eastman will give a Mead-Swing Le cture entitled, "The Apostle Paul and 'True' Martyrdom in Early Christian North Africa."  Eastman is Assistant Professor of Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University. His first book, "Paul the Martyr: The Cult of the Apostle in the Latin West" (2011), was on the early Christian veneration of the apostle Paul. For more information, please contact Prof. Tracy Swan Tuite.

Friday, 9/28, 7 pm, West Lecture Hall

Father Patrick Henry Reardon will be speaking on his most recent book "The Jesus We Missed: The Surprising Truth About the Humanity of Christ." He will also be speaking on the Syrian conflict, as he was part of a 2011 Orthodox delegation sent to Syria by Metropolitan Philip to investigate the internal political situation in that country, particularly with respect to its Christian minority. Sponsored by Oberlin Orthodox Christian Fellowship.

Sundays, 11:15 am, JFO Room

9/23, A panel discussion on "Taking a Technological Sabbath: Is It Needed? How Can It Be Done?"

9/30, Sarah Andrews will speak about her summer work for the Appalachian Service Project

Wednesdays, 6:45 pm, JFO Room

9/19, Oberlin College student John Bergen will share his experience with Christian Peacemaker teams

9/26, Rev. Loey Powell, minister for women's justice at the United Church of Christ National Offices will discuss women's justice issues

10/3, carpooling to "The Politics of 'Spiritual but Not Religious' America" lecture at The College of Wooster. Email pastor@firstchurchoberlin.org for details.

Saturday, 11/10, 10 am-10 pm, St. Clarence Parish, North Olmsted

Expert panels, informative workshops, free lunch with registration, national and local networking opportunities, and dinner with Sr. Helen Prejean. For more information, visit http://www.otse.org/2012-conference.aspx. For rides or additional information contact Anne Elder at 774-2947.