Past Adult Classes

Detective Fiction and Religion with Carol Daeley


Evolutionary Spirituality: Spirit’s Call to a New Vision for Christianity

Rev. Bev Spears

Saturday, February 11, 10:30-12:30; Saturday, February 18, 10:30-12:30; Saturday, February 25, 10:30-12:30

Board Room, UUCSR

Come discover an approach to Christianity that is expansive, adaptive, inclusive, and sees spiritual growth and development as an integrative part of Unitarian Universalism. Christianity, far from a rigid, static belief system, is a dynamic, ever-evolving spiritual. You do not have to have attended the first meeting to attend the second.

Not Worth Killing

John Mutz, Eric Ivey

Tuesday, March 21, 7-8:30 

Sanctuary, UUCSR

After showing Not Worth Killing, a short and powerful documentary about an unlikely friendship between a nun and a convicted murderer serving life without parole in Alabama, there will be a panel discussion led by the director, Eric Ivey, and the producer, John Mutz.

History of UU with Rev Dave Clements

Tuesday, April 11, 6-8 PM, Board Room

History of UU with Rev Dave Clements

Tuesday, April 11, 6-8 PM, Board Room

Healing the Colonizer Mind with Louise Dunlap

Saturday September 23rd, 10:00—2:30

Founders Room


Louise Dunlap, author of the important book Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, will be giving our Sunday sermon on September 17th. She will then lead a workshop on the following Saturday, September 23rd.

Now the News: A History of Broadcast News with Alan Bell

Six Sessions, October 10, 17, 24 and November 14, 21, 28

Board Room, 1-3


Broadcast news—i.e., news sent out electronically over the airwaves—may have started with a boat race in Ireland in 1898. Now, broadcast news unites and divides billions around the world. So, how did we get from there to here?


This lecture series will take you from Morse and Bell (no relation—that we know of) through the parallel developments of the newsreel and radio, converging in mid-20th century with TV news and further evolving into 24-hour cable news.


It’s a story as interesting as the news itself, filled with adventure, treachery, sacrifice, ego, commitment, and of course, money ... lots and lots of money. And featuring some fabulous characters: D.W. Griffith, Walter Winchell, Lowell Thomas, H.V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow (and his “boys”), Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Connie Chung, Ted Turner, and dozens more. The class will include numerous excerpts and examples from newsreels and radio & TV news over the past 100+ years.


Alan Bell is a long-time Congregation member with 20 years of experience in television, mostly as a public TV producer, and 15 years as a professor of communications.