Jim Kenney & Ron Miller Lectures
Thursdays, 1:00-3:00 pm
Held at the Highland Park Country Club
Free for Highland Park Senior Center Members / Non-Members: $10
Advance registration required, please call (847) 432-4110
Sponsored by ManorCare Health Services

May 15
A BIBLICAL MANDALA
Ron Miller - The Hebrew Bible is a library of diverse books but the various voices converge to form a coherent literary masterpiece. Ron will examine categories of biblical materials--ethical codes, holiness codes, wisdom teachings, and prophetic oracles--as well as societal roles.

July 31
AN ETHICAL SPECTRUM
Ron Miller - Ron will consider four ethical systems--Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhism--looking for their similarities and differences in approaching ethical issues. Three of these systems belong to the Abraham faiths and one represents an Asian tradition.

Sept. 18
THE CONSERVATIVE SOUL AND THE LIBERAL SOUL
Jim Kenney - Andrew Sullivan, the noted conservative columnist, who has emerged as one of the sharpest critics of the modern right, has written a powerful account of his own conservatism, "The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It and How to Get It Back". What is the “conservative soul” at its very best? And what’s the liberal equivalent? These conversations approach the progressive center that may yet provide the shared spark that animates the best of conservatism and liberalism.

Nov. 6
CONFRONTING LIFE’S CONTRADICTIONS
Rabbi Herbert Bronstein - Sages, ancient and modern, have endeavored to bring both responses and answers to the disturbing contradictions in every person’s life: undeserved suffering and pain, dissatisfaction and discontent with whatever life brings, and unfulfilled expectations and dreams. Rabbi Bronstein will survey these responses and perhaps you will have some of your own.

2008 Lecture Series Flyer


Rise and Shine Humanities Series
Wednesdays, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Held at the Highland Park Public Library
Free and open to the entire community
No registration required

May 14 - The Environment, Ethics, Religion, Politics: Basic Issues Now- Part I
Rabbi Herbert Bronstein

May 28 - The Environment, Ethics, Religion, Politics: Basic Issues Now: Part II
Rabbi Herbert Bronstein

Sponsored by Sunrise Assisted Living

Rise and Shine Humanities Series Flyer