Category: Past Sunday Programs

10 Apr 2022: Reporting from the Frontiers of Climate Change and Conservation: A Journalist’s Perspective by David Abel

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Program for Sunday, April 10, 2022 David Abel will discuss his adventures as a reporter and documentary filmmaker. Abel’s films include “Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys,” about the government’s $16 billion effort to restore the Everglades, one of the planet’s most damaged ecosystems; “Sacred Cod,” about the historic collapse of the iconic cod fishery in New England; and, most recently, Entangled which chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction. He is the host of … Continue reading 10 Apr 2022: Reporting from the Frontiers of Climate Change and Conservation: A Journalist’s Perspective by David Abel

13 Mar 2022: “Green Eternal Growth” with Madhavi Venkatesan

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Program for Sunday, March 13, 2022 Join us as Madhavi Venkatesan, economist and founder of Sustainable Practices, discusses the individual challenge and the collective potential of living within the environment. Our present economic system has promoted an implicit perspective that we control the environment but the speed of climate change is sufficient evidence that the environment, natural forces, the Earth have a balance of their own. The discussion will address the inconsistency between our present economic worldview and the attainment … Continue reading 13 Mar 2022: “Green Eternal Growth” with Madhavi Venkatesan

27 Mar 2022: “Question Authority: The Radical Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” with Carla Kaplan

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Program for Sunday, March 27, 2022 Carla Kaplan shares insights from her book-length study of social activist Jessica Mitford, “Queen of the Muckrakers.” Beginning with her 1963 blockbuster The American Way of Death –an exposé of the funeral industry’s exploitation of the poor–Mitford’s writing revived, and radicalized, Gilded Age ideas of civic responsibility in ways which continue to impact contemporary debates over social inequality, whistle blowing, and the ethics of writing. Kaplan shows us how Mitford’s life choices and intellectual … Continue reading 27 Mar 2022: “Question Authority: The Radical Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” with Carla Kaplan

20 Mar 2022: Lee Roscoe and Janet Robertson present “Water Spirits Colloquy”

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Program for Sunday, March 20, 2022 Myth meets science as angry gods confront humans for their misdeeds to the waters of earth in “Water Spirits Colloquy,” the first of Lee Roscoe’s Four Plays for a Planet in Peril to become available for public viewing. As filmed by collaborator Janet Murphy Robertson during the COVID-19, this production uses a combination of green screen and outdoor/on-location filming sessions with the actors, self-filming and/or audio recording by the actors themselves, photography and video … Continue reading 20 Mar 2022: Lee Roscoe and Janet Robertson present “Water Spirits Colloquy”

 27 Feb 2022: “This Church Follows No Creed” with Bob Seay

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Program for Sunday, February 27, 2022 Unlike many traditional churches, Nauset Fellowship has never had a pastor in the pulpit.  Since its founding in 1979, the fellowship has distinguished itself by having its own membership develop all its programming. Co-founder Bob Seay will describe why and how that process originated and how it has changed over the years. What might we learn from our own history? When does collaboration bring joy to our daily lives? When does it create community? … Continue reading  27 Feb 2022: “This Church Follows No Creed” with Bob Seay

20 Feb 2022: “Simply Perfect for Times Like These” with Pancheta Peterson

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Program for Sunday, February 20, 2022 Poets and their poems are gifts—sometimes serious, often amazing. Poetry, such as that delivered by Amanda Gorman and Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance, has carried us emotionally through these difficult times, reminding us of what others have successfully endured. Pancheta Peterson will share some poems she hopes will be encouraging, assuring us that we are stronger than we think, reminding us of the inner strength we all have been exhibiting. Pancheta Peterson is … Continue reading 20 Feb 2022: “Simply Perfect for Times Like These” with Pancheta Peterson

13 Feb 2022: “What about the Water? Emerging Concerns about Pilgrim Nuclear’s Decommissioning Process”: with Diane Turco

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Program for Sunday, February 13, 2022 Last spring, Diane Turco joined us to explain why nuclear power is not a green solution because it produces radioactive waste. Cape residents, through citizen petitions, have expressed their concerns over the storage of spent fuel rods. But now there’s more: over 1 million gallons of water, contaminated by radioactivity and more. What exactly is in the water, what are the options for disposal and who decides? Diane joins us again on February 13 … Continue reading 13 Feb 2022: “What about the Water? Emerging Concerns about Pilgrim Nuclear’s Decommissioning Process”: with Diane Turco

23 Jan 2022: “Coming to America . . . from Afghanistan” with Marianne Boswell

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Program for Sunday, January 23, 2022 With the arrival of Afghan evacuees last August, the resettlement process for arrivals in the U.S. has shifted to a community-based approach. The Lexington Refugee Assistance Program (LexRAP) has successfully been using this approach for several years now. Marianne Boswell, founder of LexRAP, will explain their approach to creating an effectively welcoming community and share information about their most recent experiences in helping to resettle Afghani arrivals. As part of her presentation, Boswell will … Continue reading 23 Jan 2022: “Coming to America . . . from Afghanistan” with Marianne Boswell

30 Jan 2022: Reporting from the Frontiers of Climate Change and Conservation: A Journalist’s Perspective by David Abel

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Program for Sunday, January 30, 2022 David Abel will discuss his adventures as a reporter and documentary filmmaker. Abel’s films include “Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys,” about the government’s $16 billion effort to restore the Everglades, one of the planet’s most damaged ecosystems; “Sacred Cod,” about the historic collapse of the iconic cod fishery in New England; and, most recently, Entangled which chronicles the efforts to protect North Atlantic right whales from extinction. He is the host of … Continue reading 30 Jan 2022: Reporting from the Frontiers of Climate Change and Conservation: A Journalist’s Perspective by David Abel

9 Jan 2022: “Sacred Songs and Country Blues” with Andy Cohen

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Program for Sunday, January 9, 2022 Andy Cohen is a lifelong musician, originally from Massachusetts, but who concentrates almost entirely on Southern music, all of it: Blues, rags, ballads, ditties, play-parties, the whole shootin’ match. He lives in Memphis now, the land where the Blues began, and studies it to this day, along with other forms. For this program, he’s going to reach deep in the repertory bag and pull out some deeply religious pieces, some down-in-the-alley blues numbers and … Continue reading 9 Jan 2022: “Sacred Songs and Country Blues” with Andy Cohen