2008 Calendar 

• September 12–13, 2008
  Elizabethton, Tennessee
  First Presbyterian Church
  Competing Early Christian Voices
  Arthur J. Dewey, Hal Taussig
  
  
• September 26–27, 2008
  Spokane, Washington
  Unity Church of Truth
  Rediscovering Paul
  Bernard Brandon Scott, Arthur J. Dewey
  
  
• October 3–4, 2008
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Elkins Park)
  St. Paul's Episcopal Church
  Jesus in 1st & 21st Centuries
  Joanna Dewey, Roy W. Hoover
  
  
• October 10–11, 2008
  Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Plymouth Congregational Church
  On Christian Origins
  Shelly Matthews, Stephen J. Patterson
  
  Beaverton, Oregon
  Southminster Presbyterian Church
  Jesus from Cradle to Grave
  Robert J. Miller, Thomas Sheehan
  
  
• October 15–18, 2008
  Westar Fall Meeting
  Flamingo Hotel, Santa Rosa, California
  Featuring John Dominic Crossan, Pamela Eisenbaum, and Jack Hill
  
  
• October 24–25, 2008
  Princeton, New Jersey
  Unitarian Universalist Congregation
  
  
• October 31–November 1, 2008
  Manahasset, New York
  Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock
  Competing Early Christian Voices
  Charlie W. Hedrick, Hal Taussig
  
  
• Fort Wayne, Indiana
  Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fort Wayne
  On Parables
  Arthur J. Dewey, Lane C. McGaughy
  
  Seattle, Washington
  Broadview Community United Church of Christ
  
  
• November 7-8, 2008
  Solvang, California
  Bethania Lutheran Church
  How Archaeology Reshapes Christian Origins
  Milton C. Moreland, Jonathan L. Reed
  

Westar Meetings

The Jesus Seminar, the Seminar on Christian Origins, the Acts Seminar and other Westar seminars meet twice yearly at Westar's national meetings. These meetings, usually held in March and October in Santa Rosa, California, are open to the general public and feature a variety of programs and events. Non-specialists are welcome to observe the deliberations of Westar Seminars, participate in unofficial voting and engage in lively forum discussions after the sessions.

National meetings feature workshops and lectures for non-specialists, conducted by Westar Fellows and other leading figures in the scholarship of religion. Guest speakers have included Karen Armstrong, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Robert Funk, Lloyd Geering, Karen King, Elaine Pagels, John Shelby Spong, and Walter Wink, among others.

Westar meetings also include social events—receptions and banquets — designed to foster conversation between Fellows and others in attendance

Jesus Seminar on the Road

While thousands are able to attend Westar Institute's twice-yearly national meetings, many more are not. Consequently Westar created a traveling seminar called the Jesus Seminar on the Road. The Jesus Seminar on the Road brings Fellows of the Jesus Seminar into conversation with interested people across North America and around the world. Held by invitation in churches, schools and convention centers, each event includes lectures and workshops on a wide range of topics.

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