Speakers for October

  Our Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. feature a different guest speaker each week, either a member of our congregation or someone from the surrounding community. We address a variety of topics, from literature and history to politics, religious thought and social issues. We welcome suggestions for speakers, please contact Donna Orchard donnaforchard@gmail.com

October 7

Speaker: Pinky Bass
Title: Auburn University Rural Studio
Summary: .Auburn Rural Studio was founded in 1993 to design and build houses and community buildings for the impoverished residents of Hale County, AL. This area of Alabama was photographed by Walker Evans during the Great Depression. Co-founder, Samuel Mockbee of the architecture department, wrote “ the structures are a contemporary modernist design
grounded in Southern culture.” Longtime FUF member, Pinky Bass is an artist who works primarily in the field of photography. Her work, including forty solo exhibitions, has been has been shown in Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Germany and Canada, is included in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, and has been featured in numerous publications. She may best be known in Alabama
for her walk-in camera obscura: Pinky’s Portable Pop-Up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom, with which she drove throughout the state introducing photography and functions of the eye to students of all ages.
Introduction: Jean Lawrence

October 21

Speaker: Nena Nimit
Title: The Power of Meditation
Summary: Nena says simply “Learn how to meditate.” Nena Nimit, M.D., has been meditating for over fifteen years. She is a certified Mindfulness and Meditation Trainer from the World Peace Initiative and wishes to spread the knowledge of meditation and inner peace throughout the community. A graduate of the University of South Alabama medical school, Dr. Nimit is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at USA.
Introduction: Ray Ables

October 14

Speaker: Ken Hudson
Title:  Bonhoeffer Life and Works
Summary: In 1933, after the Nazis took control of the Lutheran Church in Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer returned from the United States to his native country and with his colleagues created the dissident “Confessing Church.” During the war he aided
Jews in escaping the country and was involved in several attempts to assassinate Adolph Hitler. He was arrested and executed by the Nazis about a month before the war ended. His best known works are The Cost of Discipleship, Ethics, and his Letters and Papers from Prison. Dr. Hudson has an MA in Sociology and a MSSW in Social Work from the University of Louisville. He has been an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Work in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of South Alabama since 2009. He lives in Mobile and is a
member of this Fellowship.
Introduction: Harvey Joanning



October 28​

Speaker: Freya Lund Sonenstein
Title: The History and Implications of Adding a Citizenship Question to the U.S. Census
Summary:The Census: Counting Heads or Counting Citizens? FUF member, Sonenstein is a social demographer who is a professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a former director of the Populations Studies Center at the Urban Institute in Washington DC.
Introduction: Dana Roberts