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2019-03-08

03/24/2019: Meet My Religious Neighbor: Holi Celebration at Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Iowa

Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Iowa
Sunday, March 24^th, 11:00 am
33916, 155th Lane, Madrid

Join us at 11:00 am on Sunday, March 24th for the annual springtime celebration of Holi at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of Iowa. Beginning at 11 am, tours of the temple will be available. At noon, the temple will hold a short fire ceremony (Hollika Puja), followed by the throwing of colors. Lunch will be available for purchase at 1:00 pm.

Meet My Religious Neighbor is a monthly open-house series. Each open house allows the public the opportunity to tour a sacred space, learn how religion is practiced in it, and meet the congregation who worships there.

2019-02-26

03/07/2019: “Miracles and Medicine: An Interfaith Dialogue”

Moderated by Dr. Richard Deming, Director of the Mercy Cancer Center; Founder and Director of Above + Beyond Cancer

Thursday, March 7th at 7:00 pm

Mercy Hospital, East Tower Conference Rooms 6-7

Do medical miracles occur? If so, in what sense? Do patients seek miracles in the course of medical treatment? Do patients and physicians, or patients and chaplains, discuss the possibility of miracles, and if so, how? Does hope of miracles serve a therapeutic end in medical treatment? Or can hope of miracles be detrimental to the patient’s well-being?

We explore these questions and more in an interfaith dialogue on Miracles and Medicine, hosted by Dr. Richard Deming, Director of the Mercy Cancer Center, and Founder and Director of Above + Beyond Cancer. The dialogue panelists include Monsignor Larry Beeson; Dr. David Friedgood, neurologist at Mercy Hospital; Dr. Rizwan Shah, retired pediatrician at Blank Hospital; Dr. Yosesh Shah, geriatrician at Broadlawns Hospital.

The dialogue will be held in Conferences Rooms 6-7 in the East Tower of Mercy Hospital. Please park in MercyOne’s East Parking Ramp shown on the attached map, entering from Laurel Street. After parking, exit the parking ramp on foot and walk north up 3rd Street towards University Avenue. Enter Mercy’s East Tower on the left hand side of 3rd Street. Take the elevator to A Level. Turn right off the elevators. Go just past the restrooms and turn left down that hallway. East Tower Conference Rooms 6 and 7 are towards the end of that hallway on the right-hand side.

Video of lecture

2019-01-25

02/14/2019: What Miracles in the Global South Contribute to Understanding the Human Condition

A substantial number of Samburu (livestock herders in northern Kenya) have claimed to have witnessed the resurrection of family members or neighbors, and others have reported hearing the eye witness accounts of generations elder to them. This talk will describe these accounts and discuss how Samburu understandings of these events bear on a dynamic view of humans as persons in a world of fiercely contested truth claims.

Bilinda Straight is Professor of Anthropology and of Gender & Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. Her earlier work has focused on gender, material culture, and the nature of human experience. Over the past decade, she has engaged in a series of National Science Foundation funded studies related to warfare, drought, morality, and difficult experiences, as they are both culturally experienced and sedimented in human bodies.

Video of lecture

2018-11-13

12/08/2018: Meet My Religious Neighbor: Plymouth Congregational Church

Plymouth Congregational Church
4126 Ingersoll Ave, Des Moines
Saturday, December 8th, 4:00 p.m.

Join us at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 8^th for the inauguration of the interfaith chapel at Plymouth Congregational Church. This Meet My Religious Neighbor event includes not only an open house but also an interfaith dialogue featuring local representatives of six different religious traditions. Visitors are also invited to stay for Plymouth’s 5:30 p.m. “casual service.”

2018-11-13

12/06/2018: Firsthand Accounts of a Miracle Investigator

Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Thursday, December 6th, 7:00 pm
Sussman Theater, Olmstead Center

Joe Nickell is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and investigative columnist for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. With a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky, Dr. Nickell investigates myths and mysteries, frauds, forgeries, and hoaxes. He has authored more than twenty books, most notably the Science of Miracles. He has also appeared on numerous national TV shows, earning titles such as “the modern Sherlock Holmes,” “the original ghost buster,” and “the real-life Scully” (from “The X-Files” ).

In his lecture, Dr. Nickell will review some of the allegedly miraculous cases that he has investigated over this career. These include phenomena as varied as the Shroud of Turin, weeping statues, faith healing, and other empirical claims of religion.

Video of lecture

https://vimeo.com/305770919