PRAIRIE GROUP PROGRAMS/PAPERS
Below is a list of all papers delivered at Prairie Group during the 1960s. Some papers may be found in the archives at Meadville Lombard Seminary in Chicago. All papers were delivered except as noted at Pere Marquette Lodge, Grafton, IL.
The Meaning of Love in the Human Experience at the 14-16 November 1960 meetings
“Love in the Bhagavad Gita” by Horace Westwood; Thad Clark & John Wolf responders
“Love in the Synoptic Gospels” by Peter Raible; Thad Clark & Napoleon Lovely responders
“Love as Described in the Psychiatric Schools” by Carl Wennerstrom; Thad Clark & Ed Redman responders
“Love as Taught by the Liberal Churches n the Beacon Press Publications in Religious Education” by Vincent Silliman; Thad Clark & John MacPhee responders
Humanism at the 13-15 November 1961 meetings
“Humanism: Origins and Types” by Thad Clark; Jack Hayward responder
“American Humanism through the Manifesto” by Ray Bragg; Randall Hilton responder
“Present Day Humanism” by Khoren Arisian; Jim Curtis responder
“Humanism and the Future” by Ellsworth Smith; Clarke Wells responder
Existentialism and Religious Liberalism at the 12-14 November 1962 meetings
“Critical Review: Part One” by Hugh Kennedy
“Critical Review: Part Two” by Webster Kitchell
“Critical Review: Part Three” by Paul Killinger
“The Meaning in some Current Architecture” by Bryan Allin and Jack Hayward
The Nature of Law and Civil Disobedience at the 11-13 November 1963 meetings
“The Nature of Law” by John Wolf; Richard Nash responder
“Natural Law” by Clarke Wells; Waitstill Sharp responder
“Civil Disobedience” by Chris Raible; John Cyrus responder
“A Liberal Reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy” by Jack Hayward
Summary by Webster Kitchell and Paul Killinger
The Nature of the Religious Experience at the 09-11 November 1964 meetings
“Freud, Jung, Allport” by Arthur Foote; Thomas Smith responder
“Bergson, Whitehead, Hocking” by Waitstill Sharp; Alan Deale responder
“Schleirmacher, Kierkegaard, Otto” by Webster Kitchell; Malcolm Sutherland responder
Cognition and Linguistic Analysis at the 01-03 November 1965 meetings
“How Do You Verify the Content of Religious Experience?” by Alan Deale; Jack Hayward responder
“How Does Our Attempt to Verify the Content of Religious Experience Relate to Religious Language?” by Robert Reed; Frank Holmes responder
“Is There Any Real Content in Religious Language? (or is this merely manipulation of symbols?)” by John Godbey; Emil Gudmundson responder
“Logical Atomism, Positivism and Religious Experience (including; How does religious language effect the nature of religious experience?)” by Kenneth Helms; James Hutchinson responder
Urbanism and Religion at the 08-10 November 1966 meetings
“Secular Urbanism as a Way of Life” by Thad Clark; Max Gaebler responder
“The Radical Christian Response to Secular Urbanism” by Jack Hayward; Russell Bletzer responder
“The Secular Response to Secular Urbanism: a) Progressive Governmental; b) The New Left” by John Wolf; Alan Deale responder
“The Liberal Religious Responses to Secular Urbanism” by Richard Nash; Arthur Foote responder
Report on the UU Center for Urban Ministry in Chicago
by Ron Engel & Neil Shadle
Worship and the Doctrine of the Church at the 07-09 November 1967 meetings
“The Changes Since Vatican II in the Roman Catholic Church” by James Wilkes; John Wolf responder
“Worship: Expression and Exploration in Religious Liberalism” by Arthur Foote; John Cyrus responder
“Private Worship; or Zen Again; or Inward HO!” by Robert Tapp; William Weir responder
“The Radical Christians, Marshall McLuhan and Worship” by Malcolm Sutherland; Fred LeShane responder
Toward a Doctrine of the Liberal Church at the 11-14 November 1968 meetings
“Clues from the Past for a Doctrine of the Liberal Church
” by Joseph Nerad
“To Provide a Beloved Community of Memory and Hope” by Alan Deale
“The Liberal Church
as Community for Social Transformation” by David Johnson
“In Praise of Diversity, or How Many Things to How Many Men?” by Chris Raible
“Winning Men to Ultimate Commitment” by William Weir
“The Doctrine of the Church Emerging from the Ecumenically Oriented Churches” by Max Gaebler
The Church and Culture: Involvement and Transcendence at the 10-13 November 1969 meetings
“The Liberal Church
as the Chaplain of American Civil Religion” by Ron Engel
“Meaning of Transcendence and Immanence” by Frank Schulman
“Who or What is Our Christ?” by Jack Hayward
“Incarnating Our Christ in Contemporary Culture” by Robert Lehman
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