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Past Friday Afternoon Discussions

Sept. 9 
  

 

Becoming One and Being Without Self: A Zen Approach to Religious Life  
Jeff Shore, Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan

 

 

 

Sept. 16
 

 

Saving the Elephants: Conserving Elephants in a Human-Dominated Landscape in Sri Lanka
Charles Santiapillai, Zoologist/Ecologist, Sri Lanka

 

 

 

Sept. 23

 

China Odyssey: How China Looks to Me
Panel of Hendrix students who went to China summer of 2005

 

 

 

Sept. 30
 

 

Reflections on Psychiatry and Spirituality
Dr. Sarah Vanscoy, Psychiatrist, Jonesboro 

 

 

 

Oct. 7

  

 

Internet and Community
Dr. Jay Barth, Department of Politics
Dr. Jay McDaniel, Department of Religion   

 

 

 

Oct. 21
 

 

Religious Perspectives on Evolutionary Biology
Rev. Chris Keller, Episcopal Priest, Little Rock

 

 

 

Oct. 28

 

A Loving God and a World of Hurt: An Answer to the Problem of Evil
Dr. Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University

 

 

 

Nov. 4

 

 

An Odyssey of Service Around the World
Poster presentations by Hendrix-Lilly Service Fellows:
Featuring Jessica Bridges (Chile), Mari Ruth Petzing (Oregon), Margi Ault-Duell (Kansas), Heath De Jean (South Africa), Joni Podschu (Slovakia)

 

 

 

Nov. 11

 

Contrasting First-Person and Third-Person Sources of Data for Philosophical Hypotheses
Dr. Joseph Levine, Ohio State University

 

 

 

Nov. 18

 

Navajo Traditions
Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Friday Afternoon Discussions are in the Raney Building, 3:30-4:30 p.m.