Pilgrim's Pint is a casual and engaging lecture series exploring the curious and candid questions of Christian belief in a modern context. The series is held at Post, 16 Bay Road in South Hamilton from 7:00-8:30 PM. Below is a list of upcoming lectures.
Monday, May 12: Dr. Autumn Ridenour, Re-Engineering Mortality : The Ethics of Aging in a Youth Obsessed Culture
If you could remain young forever, would you? Whether you realize it or not, this is a question that is asked of you everyday: marketing emails promoting anti-aging products, influencers endorsing energy boosting supplements, billboards advertising clothes for young people and technologies that promise to turn back the clock. The subtle message behind all of this is one that equates youth with beauty, vitality and value while devaluing traits such as wisdom, memory, perspective and forged character. One might think it is dignity which is gained through the ability to “choose your own destiny” but what if this message is actually doing exactly the opposite? What if this message is fundamentally distorting the desired limits of what St. Augustine refers to as an ordered life of love? Join us on Mon, May 12 as Dr. Autumn Ridenour explores our modern fountain-of-youth culture and uncovers the striking implications it has for our world.Monday, June 2: Dr. Seong Hyun Park, Israel & Palestine: At Home in an Unfinished Story
The Israel-Palestine conflict is older than you might realize. Competing claims to divine promise, sacred land, and historical destiny have fueled strife not for hundreds of years but for thousands.To empathetically understand the deep-seated national conflict happening today it's wise to investigate the ancient histories that have culminated in such divergent worldviews. Before Jewish settlement in Palestine following World War I, before the Crusades of the Middle Ages, even before the conquest of Alexander the Great, the seeds of enduring conflict were growing along the banks of the Jordan River. Is this conflict simply a question of land rights before a peace can finally be accomplished? Or must we first confront bigger questions about the nature of conflict itself, about ultimate power and true identity? Join us on Mon, April 14 as Dr. Seong Hyun Park (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) explores the history of these competing narratives and the human desire to tie ultimate meaning to earthly kingdoms and temporal justice.