Adult Education Programs [Home]

The public is cordially invited to all our events. For more information, call the
church office at 245-2218 or send an email to Walker Rumble, rumble@ids.net.

Current Programs

Winter-Spring 2008 Book and Film Study:
All film viewings and book discussions are at 7:00 p.m.

January 17
Babette’s Feast (1987), a film based on Isak Dinesen’s short story
February 21
Lying Awake (2000), a novel by Mark Salzman
March 18
The Crucible (1996), a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder
April 17
J.B. (1952), a verse drama by Archibald MacLeish
May 22
Becket (1964), a film starring Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton
June 19
Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel by James Baldwin

Senior Lunch Bunch
Tuesday Lunch Talks at Noon
Enjoy great food and conversation! Lunch and discussions at Barrington Prebyterian Church
Next Event --- Tuesday March 11th – 12:15 PM
For more information call Gary VanDyke at 433.5014
If you'd like to attend, please send a check to:

Gary VanDyke
30 Argyle Ave.  Apt 102
Riverside, Rhode Island 02915

Program Archives

Summer 2007 slide-talk series – Hymns:

Sanctuary Songs
Stories Behind the Hymns We Sing
Methods of Music in Worship
Slides, historical commentary, audio recordings, and congregational singing

Winter-Spring 2007 Book and Film Study:

Morality Play, a novel by Barry Unsworth
Places in the Heart, a film starring Sally Field
In the Beauty of the Lilies, a novel by John Updike
Bonhoeffer, a documentary film about Dietrich Bonhoeffer
New and Selected Poems, a collection of poems by Mary Oliver
The Apostle, a film starring Robert Duvall

Faces Near the Cross,
the Passion Narrative in St. Luke’s Gospel
Five Thursday mornings and evenings in March 2007

Summer 2006 slide-talk series on “The Bible as a Book”:

• The Gutenberg Bible and the Protestant Reformation    
• The Invention of the Codex and the Earliest Christians
• The Earliest Books of the New World: Bay Psalm Book and Eliot’s Indian Bible

Fall 2006 book group titles:

• Gilead, a novel by Marilynne Robinson
• The Spiral Staircase, a memoir by Karen Armstrong

Fall 2006 visiting lecture:

• “Women in Today’s Global Social Upheaval,” Loretta James, United Nations specialist on international women’s rights and UN representative for the International Federation of University Women