Episodes

Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Judaism - Part 2. God Is Not One series
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Sunday Feb 16, 2014
Presenter: Helen Christiansen
Orthodoxy is the only form of Judaism officially recognized by the State of Israel. In other parts of the world, Jews have split into different branches. This presentation will look at the Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox movements, touch on Reconstructionist and Humanistic Judaism, and conclude with an overview of Kabbalah – Jewish Buddhism.

Tuesday Feb 11, 2014
War as Disease
Tuesday Feb 11, 2014
Tuesday Feb 11, 2014
Presenter: Dr. Dale Dewar
Re-framing the issue and placing it in the context of the global environmental challenge.

Sunday Feb 02, 2014
Freedom and Human Choice
Sunday Feb 02, 2014
Sunday Feb 02, 2014
Presenter: William Arnal
If there is no divine punishment or reward, if there is no immutable human essence, if we are free to choose the lives we want to live, can there be any basis for morality? The existentialists posed this question, and their answers are provocative and haunting. If there is no transcendent moral guideline, we can choose to base our behavior on any principles whatsoever. What could those principles be? This presentation focuses on Jean-Paul Sartre, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Sunday Jan 19, 2014
The Loss of Aborignal Health in the 1870’s: Does the Legacy Continue?
Sunday Jan 19, 2014
Sunday Jan 19, 2014
Presenter: James Daschuk
This presentation will consider long term health patterns in First Nations communities in Saskatchewan over several centuries, and focuses on the sudden decline of health in the years after numbered treaties were signed. Many of the conditions that undermined indigenous health more than a century ago continue to be a burden on First Nations people today. We include the power point used for the presentation

Sunday Jan 12, 2014
Judaism -- The Seventh Presentation in the series God Is Not One: Part One
Sunday Jan 12, 2014
Sunday Jan 12, 2014
Presenter: Helen Christiansen
Prothero argues that Judaism is both the least and the greatest
of all religions. With only 14 million Jews worldwide, it is by far the
smallest of the great religions, however, Prothero believes that
Judaism has wielded influence far out of proportion to its numbers.

Sunday Dec 15, 2013
The Jewish Festival of Hanukkah
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Sunday Dec 15, 2013
Presenter: Rabbi Jeremy Parnes
The annual celebration of Hanukkah occurred on November 18th
this year. As Hanukkah falls near Christmas, and involves gift-giving,
it is often seen as a sort of Jewish Christmas. Actually, Hanukkah
commemorates the retaking of Jerusalem in the second century BCE by
Jewish rebels known as the Maccabees, and their purification and
rededication of the temple. This presentation looked at the
celebration of Hanukkah by the Jewish community in Regina and in other parts of the world. In the process of explaining Hanukkah, Rabbi Parnes gave us a number of insights regarding the history of the Jews and his own personally held belief that we should all recognize, understand, and respect our differences.

Monday Dec 09, 2013
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Singer, Activist, and Visionary
Monday Dec 09, 2013
Monday Dec 09, 2013
Presenter: Blair Stonechild
Buffy Sainte-Marie is generally known as a First Nations folk
singer. Her interests and activities are far broader however. She is
also an actor, activist, artist, and pioneer in internet education. One
little known aspect of her story is her life-long interest in
spirituality beginning with Oriental religions at university, spiritual
practices of the Cree, Baha’i faith and Urantia religion. This
presentation will provide an overview of her life and career with a
focus on spirituality.

Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Follow-up to an earlier presentation on Zealot by Reza Aslan
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Sunday Dec 01, 2013
Presenter: Allyne Knox
Reza Aslan is an Iranian-American writer and religious scholar. Zealot: The life and times of Jesus of Nazarethoffers an interpretation of the life and mission of the historical Jesus.

Sunday Nov 24, 2013
Reconnecting With Our Gardens,
Sunday Nov 24, 2013
Sunday Nov 24, 2013
Presenter: Victor Cicansky
This presentation explores the backyard garden and the
change in consciousness worldwide that is sending people into their
backyards and front yards, to community gardens and schoolyard gardens
to reconnect with the natural processes of earth-grown food in a real
world context.

Sunday Nov 17, 2013
The Origins of Women of the Dawn
Sunday Nov 17, 2013
Sunday Nov 17, 2013
Presenter: Ivy Kennedy Hall
Social Services rules are changing across Canada. Women of the Dawn was founded to meet the needs of First Nations Women - to get them off the welfare system, and to help them return to school so that they are in a better position to support their children.