Program

Karen Wendt: Individualism to Collectivism

As we continue our discussion on the beloved community, Fellowship member Karen Wendt will present “Weaving our way back to Connectivity” as discussed in the book “The Second Mountain - the Quest for a Moral Life” by David Brooks  (click on this link:  the_ted_interview_david_brooks_on_political_healing to listen to the May,  2019 TED INTERVIEW with David Brooks).

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Guest Speaker: Steve Fredlund

Lake Fellowship is pleased to welcome back guest speaker Steve Fredlund today. Steve Fredlund has learned first hand the power of story. As a long time corporate analytic, he was always bent toward explaining things through the numbers and logical reasoning; this continued as he started a nonprofit doing work in Rwanda. A few people connected with the work; but once he started traveling there and bringing back individual stories, that's when the momentum occurred. We see the power of story at work everywhere we turn; from sacred texts to online marketing...

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Co-Creating A New Path Forward for Climate: Guest Speaker Lea Cullen Boyer

Today, Lake Fellowship welcomes guest speaker Lea Cullen Boyer, a Sustainability Coordinator from Westchester, New York. 

Fresh approaches to conservation and climate opportunities are emerging out of the COVID crisis. This lively hour long presentation is an invitation to conversation on what we've learned during this extraordinary time. 

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Unifying the Divided States of America, with Don Penn

Lake Fellowship member Don Penn will present our program today. This will, in some ways, be a continuation of the discussion we shared on 11/29/2020, and will begin to try to DEFINE just how far apart the two halves of America are on some of the critical issues from that discussion. This discussion will NOT look to give any answers here, but will attempt to define the problem before we propose solutions.

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COVID-19 vaccines, with Guest Speaker: Maria Filsinger Interrante

Today, Maria Filsinger Interrante, daughter of Tomas Filsinger and Vicki Interrante (friends of Lake Fellowship) will present on the COVID 19 vaccine.  Maria is pursuing her MD/PhD at Stanford in a vaccine research lab, and has worked on SARS-2 as well as HIV, flu, and Ebola. Maria will present on how these vaccines work, what they are made of, and the differences between the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. She will also answer questions on their safety, efficacy, and availability.

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Panel Discusion: COVID-19

Lake Fellowship member and current Board Chair, Tim Wendt will lead a panel discussion with Lake Fellowship members and friends who have tested positive for COVID-19 or have had COVID symptoms and their caregivers.
We shall hear how how they contracted COVID, how they felt physically and emotionally, how they survived each day, and what kind of toll this took on their psychological health.  

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Elections' Role in Healing Cultural Divisions

Democracy's social contract supports the sanctity of the rule of law, and requires citizens to peacefully accept legitimate election outcomes. But as we've seen in notable protests around the country from the 1960's to today, US citizens do not always accept these outcomes, or at the very least, we've challenged their legitimacy. Is a violent schism or some form of civil war inevitable? What can we do, if anything, to avert such an outcome?

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