Moral Qualities
Friday July 27
Heart of Gold
A golden opportunity to explore the blessing of a heart of gold
that is as good as gold or better and gold greed as a Midas Touch curse. A look at the moral qualities we assign to gold.
Paul (Pablo) Corman
was born 1946 in Dallas, Texas, but left at the earliest opportunity to study at Antioch College with a year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and later at NYU School of the Arts for a master’s in Dance Theatre. He worked on, off, off-off, even off-off-off Broadway for 12 years as an actor and dancer before going to the Seminary in Stuttgart, 1982. After ordination 1986, was a priest in the Pforzheim congregation and since 1989, in the Christian Community in Lima, Peru. By the time the conference rolls around he hopes to have been able to marry his partner, Alfredo Baez, during a visit in November to New York. They live with a menagerie in Lima, of course.
The Golden Belt and the Sword of Iron: Preparing for the Future
This lecture will be concerned with the riddle of the human will. Civilization in our epoch of time owes its greatness and unique characteristics to the rapid development of human intelligence. The development of the powers of the will have not been able to keep up. Ideas and theories rush ahead; the deeds remain behind. Rich in thoughts but poor in deeds we often feel barely able to meet the challenges and problems of destiny and our times. -- I would like to attempt at least to give an indication of how our thinking has its place in the heart, and how our speech can reveal a new power for life-practical deeds. (Apocalypse 1: 13-16)
Lothar Christoph Reubke was born 1934 in Berlin and sang soprano in a famous Boys’ Choir from age 11 to 15. He studied voice and opera singing. He also studied composition and organ with J. N. David leading him to become Organist and Cantor in The Christian Community in Stuttgart as well as music teacher and composer. He was ordained in1977 and worked as a Priest in West Berlin, Nurenberg and Berlin. Retired since 2007, Reverend Reubke has given lectures in many congregations and taught at the Seminary in Stuttgart.