The Westminster Seminars offer a dynamic schedule of topics to help us live more fully as thoughtful Christians in today’s world. Everyone is always welcome. Come when you can – no preparation or homework.
The Zoom option makes it easy to catch a seminar if you aren’t at church. For most seminars, you can watch or listen later on the Westminster website at: Westminster Seminars.
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The Zoom meeting opens at 9:30.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86753114914?pwd=UmxkMWF0RUdCT1FoV3AxUlZ4REhtZz09
Meeting ID: 867 5311 4914
Passcode: 209681
Presenter: Dr. Suzanne Free
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*On June 8, the seminar will begin at 8:45 a.m. Coffee will be available by 8:30 in the Welcome Center.
Seminars in June begin with a three-Sunday series on C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece The Great Divorce. Both comic and tragic, it asks a question: Why would damned souls living in hell be offered a field trip to heaven with the option of staying – and choose not to stay? Lewis puts himself on that bus. Would you put yourself there? How easy is it to mistake heaven for hell or a sunset for a sunrise? This book is deadly serious fun. The chapters will be summarized, so it’s not necessary to read the book. Please join us!
Suzanne Free earned her Ph.D. in English at Ohio University in 1989, with specialties in American literature and creative writing. She has published poetry in The Christian Century, Christianity and Literature, and Poetica, and a novel. For 26 years, she taught full-time at The Ellis School, an independent high school for girls in Shadyside. Upon retiring in 2012, she worked as a writer for Classrooms Without Borders, a Pittsburgh-based organization dedicated to Holocaust education for high school and college students, faculty, and clergy of all denominations. She and her husband John, a retired Presbyterian minister, have three children and eight grandchildren, and live in Moon Township. She joined Westminster Church two years ago. This is her third seminar at Westminster.
Presenters: Ted Kyle and Robyn Pashby
The first session will explore how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt. Learn the brain science behind belief, bias, and connection and how to consciously build trust in times of uncertainty. The second session will discuss the changing nature of trust in communities of faith and how trust affects our spiritual lives.
Dr. Robyn Pashby is a clinical health psychologist who specializes in the connection between mental and physical health. She is the founder and director of Health Psychology Partners, a group therapy practice in Washington, DC. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Pashby also serves roles as an advisor, faculty member, board member, and speaker with an overarching goal of making healthcare more compassionate and patient-centered.
Ted Kyle, a longtime member of Westminster, is a pharmacist, communicator, and healthcare advocate for people living with obesity.
Westminster Seminars will take a summer break beginning in July. They return on September 7 with “Living Faith: Everyday Ethics for Ordinary Christians,” presented by Derek Woodard-Lehman from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.