by ABC | Oct 16, 2016 | Forum
Asked what I think about the Forum, my response is an unequivocal “The Forum is a great place to spend part of a Sunday morning!.” Attending will get you out of the doldrums and send you home with new perspectives on old conclusions. I first attended the Forum on...
by ABC | Oct 16, 2016 | Forum
Our Town, Their Bodies: Chattanooga Sex Work, 4th-Wave Feminism & Humanism Revisiting the status of prostitution in Chattanooga after NPR’s 2009 report “In Chattanooga, Main Street Is A Prostitution Strip”, and the future of sex work in our town. Will...
by ABC | Oct 16, 2016 | From the Heart
If You Give a House a Cookie Jar, You Must Keep It Full It all began with a cookie jar filled with homemade cookies. This was our introduction to Welcome Home and to the dedicated volunteers and delightful residents therein. This is a place filled with love, a place...
by ABC | Sep 26, 2016 | Sermon topics, Sunday Mornings
11:00 am ~ Robots in Disguise Chen Zhang, a newcomer to Chattanooga and to this congregation, is interested in exploring what makes us human, the role of robotics in the future of society, and what we have to think about as more jobs are being replaced by machines....
by ABC | Sep 19, 2016 | Sermon topics, Social Justice, Sunday Mornings
11:00 am ~ Defying Hate To defy hatred takes courage and conviction, but if we are not committed to our convictions in word and deed, then disconnection takes over – and with it, indifference. We cannot afford indifference – ever. As John Fitzgerald Kennedy said:...