Think Again

Thursday, February 18, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leader: Leslie Hadfield Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: Instigated by university students in 1968-1969, the Black Consciousness movement sought to liberate black South Africans psychologically and stressed black self-reliance.  In the early 1960s, major opposition organizations such as Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress had been virtually silenced by government repression.  In 1969, Steve Biko and other black students frustrated with white leadership in multi-racial student organizations formed an exclusively black student association.  Out of the South African Student’s Organization (SASO) came what was termed Black Consciousness.  This philosophy redefined “black” as a positive identity and taught that black South Africans had the ability to make meaningful change in their society. ...

Thursday, January 21, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue leader: Dave Shuler Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: A brief review of certain historical and current scholarly efforts made in understanding and describing human happiness from a holistic and anthropological perspective. This will be followed by discussion and exploration of potential determinants of what the Greek philosophers called Eudaimonia, which we will define as a meaningful and fulfilled life. About Dave: Dave Shuler is an anthropologist, believer, teacher, farmer, every-day-philosopher and friend. His academic and professional studies have been centered mostly on international development, world cultures and religion, which naturally guided him to take up the academic study of happiness. Dave genuinely loves the mountains, good conversation, and difficult questions. He is delighted by his grand...

Thursday, October 15:   |  Dialogue leader: Karen Pool Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: This interactive workshop will jump-start development of short- and long-range goals using imagination and creativity. Making progress on paper, participants will identify resistors, increase in clarity, and experience breakthrough moments. This session will widen world-view perceptions, options, and create new bridges of thought. About Karen: Formerly a university administrator, teacher educator, and adjunct professor at Utah Valley University, Karen Wilson Pool is an author and motivational speaker. She teaches a Life Creation Process that encourages individuals to invent their lives by creating a flexible 5-year plan. She’s the author of Transformational Thinking, Celebrating Women’s Voices, Designing Your Life Vision, and The Golden Thread. She is currently wo...

Friday, September 11, 2015 The Whys and Wherefores of Cowboy Poetry Thursday,  September 17:   |  Dialogue leader: Rod Miller Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.   Discussion: What is Cowboy Poetry, and does it matter? How does it fit into the larger tradition of poetry and what sets it apart? Is it a subject deep enough to dive into?  About Rod: Rod Miller’s first collection of poetry, Things a Cowboy Sees and Other Poems, won the Westerners International award for poetry and was named Best Poetry Book by the Academy of Western Artists. “Tabula Rasa,” a poem from the collection, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Poem. A poem from his latest collection, Goodnight Goes Riding and Other Poems, “Song of the Stampede,” was a Finalist for the WWA Spur Award. His poems have appeared in several periodicals and antholo...

Art in the Key of Wonder: a discussion of the value of the visual arts   Thursday, August 20, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue Leader: Judith McConkie Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.  Discussion: Art is in the eye of the beholder. Or is it? What does art do for you? What has it done for the advancement of our species? What is art anyway?  About Judith: Besides a long career in teaching on secondary and university levels beginning in 1969, Judith has been a studio artist and a visual arts administrator/curator. She studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. and completed an MFA at BYU in 1984. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited widely; they are in held in a number of public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She studied in London at the Royal College of Art and exhibited at the Henry Moore Gallery there....

Dialogue Leader: Lindsay Daniels Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.  Discussion: India is the epicenter of human trafficking – Every 4 minutes, an innocent girl is kidnapped, bound, stripped of her virginity and forced into a life of prostitution. The United Nations has deemed India the most dangerous place in the world to be a girl. With 150,000 children per year sold into slavery, India now has 2-3 million prostitutes. Without a voice, without a choice, these girls are violently trafficked into the worlds largest sex ring.  About Lindsay: Photographer and adventurer Lindsay Daniels was born in Los Angeles County, California, before moving with her family to live her formidable years under the shadows of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah. She grew up with an insatiable appetite for exploring different peoples, cultures and lands, leading her to take degrees in ...

  A cultural-historical look at trauma in the LDS church and it’s influence on the Word of Wisdom, and the corresponding relationship to drug and alcohol addiction in Utah.  This secular dialogue is the first of two about substance abuse. June's Faith Again, to be held on the third Thursday this time, will follow up with a discussion on some of the spiritual solutions to addiction recovery within the context of faith, family, and community.     FRIDAY, June 5, 7:30 pm  |  Dialogue Leader: James Ott, LCSW Mark & Elizabeth England's home at 1194 South 500 East in Salt Lake City. Late-comers, please use the back door.  Discussion: The LDS Church has a history of trauma and transitions that has become part of it’s culture and identity as a whole. We will look at the historical and cultural perspectives and use on mood-altering substances, and it’s connection to trauma and transition. For Faith Again two weeks later, we ...