Title: “How Do Early Followers of Jesus Speak to Us Today?”
Presenter: Shirley Paulson, PhD
Type: 45-minute Presentation (via Zoom)
Date: September 27, 2020
Time:  3:00 pm Eastern, 2:00 pm Central, 1:00 Mountain, Noon Pacific
Where:  Clearview Home Annual Meeting (registration required to attend – but it’s free)
Description:  Jesus’s followers had to figure out what to do when he was no longer there to guide them. Their prayers and actions inspire our discipleship today.

Title: “Race, Ethnicity, and the Bible”
Presenter: Hal Taussig, PhD
Type:  Four 75-minute Presentations (via Zoom)
Date: Wednesday, September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 2020
Time: 7:00 – 8:15 pm Mountain, (9:00 Eastern, 8:00 Central, 6:00 Pacific)
Where:  Zoom Link is Here (Contact us for meeting ID and password if you want to connect by phone.)
Description:  These sessions are based on the important biblical studies of Dr. Vincent Wimbush over the past 25 years, focusing on Wimbush’s major book, African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures. Professor Wimbush, probably the country’s leading African American Professor of Biblical Studies, will not be participating directly. For 8 of the 17 years that Hal Taussig taught as Professor of New Testament Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Professor Wimbush was his colleague on Union’s faculty.