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Upcoming Events
The Forum is a place for the exchange of a diverse set of spiritual, contemporary, historical, scientific, ecological, and other ideas selected for engaging with the Christian faith creatively and critically. Everyone is welcome.
THIS FALL'S LINE-UP (presentation topics TBD):*
September 13: Dick Hall and Eric Hall
September 20: Jacque Franklin
September 27: Open
October 4: Jessica Killin
October 11: Creation Justice Team
October 18: Pam Shockley-Zalabak
October 25: No presentation (Fall Festival)
November 1: Amanda Udis-Kessler
November 8: Lyna Chai
November 15: Robin Weber
November 22: Tom Healy
November 29: Janet Foerster
December 6: Chuck Benson
December 13: TBD
December 20: TBD
December 27: No presentation
*subject to change
Click the button below to access old recordings on our church YouTube page.
This group meets in the Gregg Library during Faith Formation Hour.
This is a casual, multi-generational, multi-sensory, group bonding, ALL in, coffee-minded, community building, spirit-minded opportunity that may entail some meditation, humor, music, poetry and most of all, YOUR VOICE.
Over the fall, a squad of facilitators, led by Del Hokanson, will guide sessions, in the hope that as we “BE-Come” more in tune with the desires of the participants, more participants may want to engage as the visioning team.
In April, 2027, we will be honored to host Rev. Dr. Willie James Jennings as our Guest Speaker for the JWW Lectureship Series!
Dr. Jennings is currently Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School, where he teaches in the areas of Christian thought, race theory, decolonial and environmental studies.
Dr. Jennings is the author of The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (2010),
recognized as an important theological work and used as a text in colleges, seminaries, and universities. He was awarded the 2010 American Academy of Religion Book of the Year in the Constructive-Reflective Studies category.
Dr. Jennings’s commentary on the Book of Acts, Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (2017) won the Reference Book of the Year Award, from The Academy of Parish Clergy. He is also the author of After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (2020). Dr. Jennings is currently completing work on a two-volume project on the doctrine of creation. Volume two, provisionally entitled, Jesus and the Displaced: The Redemption of Habitation, will be published before volume one.
Dr. Jennings is an ordained Baptist minister and has served as interim pastor for several North Carolina churches. He is a graduate of Calvin College and received his M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in religion and ethics from Duke. Watch for more information next spring
including information about the theme and topics he will be presenting.
We will also be holding a Book Discussion Group at FCUCC based on his writings, planned for
March 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2027 - 9:30-11:00 a.m.
(Source: Yale Divinity School faculty biography)
Rev. Dr. James W. White served First Congregational from 1989 to 2005. Jim taught others to enter into a life of faith more fully and more richly, exploring and drawing upon Biblical and historical traditions. Jim often brought thinkers and speakers whom he admired to share with our congregation.
To honor Jim’s ministry and legacy, FCUCC established the James W. White Endowed Lectures.
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