“The Healing of America:  A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care” with T. R. Reid

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

T.R. Reid is one of the nation’s best-known correspondents through his coverage of global affairs for The Washington Post, his books and documentaries, and his light-hearted commentaries on National Public Radio.  Reid has written and hosted documentary films for National Geographic TV, for PBS Frontline, and for the A&E network. 

He is a regular on national Public Radio’s Morning Edition and he has several books including, The Healing of America:  A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, which comes out this summer.  During the research for this book Reid went to ten countries to find out why all the other industrialized democracies manage to provide high -quality universal health care but still spend half as much as we do.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation at 231.924.5350 at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

“The New American Culture War” by Arthur C. Brooks

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

Speaker Arthur C. Brooks is the newly appointed president of the American Enterprise Institute, former professor of business and government policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  Dr. Brooks’ research and writing have investigated the connections between culture, politics, and economic life in America. 

In the past ten years he has published five dozen academic articles, scores of magazine and newspaper essays, and seven books onsubjects ranging from the economics of arts to philanthropy to military operations research.  His most recent books are Gross National Happiness, Social Entrepreneurship, and Who Really Cares, which discusses the surprising truth he discovered about compassionate conservatism after years of researching the giving trends in America.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation, 231.924.5350, at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

“Green Prosperity” with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins regrettfully had to cancel to due illness.

“Against All Odds” with Harvey Carey

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

Carey is the founder and senior pastor of Citadel of Faith Covenant Church, a congregation of 800 in Detroit.  Located in one of the poorest zip codes in America, Citadel of Faith is committed to providing real solutions for people and communities in distress.

Pastor Carey serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit providing social services, housing, and enrichment activities for youth and children.

Carey, who grew up in the projects of southside Chicago, is an exceptional communicator, widely known for his ability to communicate the transforming truth of God’s word.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation at 231.924.5350 at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

“The Theology Behind Smart Diplomacy with North Korea” with K.A. (Tony) Namkung

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

K.A. Namkung is an independent consultant on U.S./Asian relations, North Korea, and nuclear arms and is known and highly respected by business and government leaders throughout Asia and the U.S.  He serves as Asian advisor to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. 

Namkung has traveled to North Korea nearly thirty times and for this presentation he will use his experience of dealing with North Korea over the past twenty year to reflect on current situations.  Also, Namkung is a 1967 Calvin alum.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation at 231.924.5350 at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

“Moral Rehabilitation in an Immoral Environment” with Burl Cain

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.  Please note - the location of this webcast is at the NCRESA building, 4747 W. 48th St., directly across the parking lot from the Dogwood Center.

Burl Cain is the Prison Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary.  His steadfast rejection of a “lock’em up and throw away the key” mentality can be seen in the progressive, compassionate programs and sound correctional procedures he has implemented.

The hallmark of his remarkable administration is his relentless efforts to help each inmate discover value and purpose in his life, to experience true freedom of the soul.  His story is a story of hope and transformation in America’s bloodiest prison.  He is the subject of the book Cain’s Redemption.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast at the NCRESA building from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Foundation at 231.924.5350 at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors open at 12 noon.

“Desiring the Kingdom:  Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation” with James K.A. Smith

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

James K.A. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Congregational and Ministry Studies at Calvin College.  He describes his work as “undertaken in the borderlands between philosophy, theology, ethics, aesthetics, science, and politics.”

Smith is most interested in bringing critical thought to bear on the practices of the church and the church’s witness to culture.  He has written many books, and his presentation will be based on his most recent which was released September 2009.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation, 231.924.5350, at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

“Journey to Empowerment:  Stories from the Streets of Cairo” with Syada Greiss

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

Greiss is a current member of Egyptian Parliament and Board Chairperson for the Association for the Protection of the Environment.  She works with the poor and marginalized Christian community of garbage collectors in Cairo.  Her work focuses on environmental protection and the empowerment of women and children.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation at 231.924.5350 at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

“Democracy and the Internet” with Jimmy Wales

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, one of the most ten most visited web sites in the world.  He is a U.S. internet entrepreneur and wiki pioneer, was  ranked 12th by the Forbes Magazine in their first annual “Web Celeb 25″ list and named on of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People”.  In 2007, the World Economic Forum recognized Wales as one of its “Young Global Leaders”. 

Wales predicts that the internet will democratize developing countries by making the world “flat”, opening markets, promoting cultural understanding, and giving developing nations the resources they need to compete in the 21st century.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation, 231.924.5350, at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.

This full-length, one-man drama by Rick Plummer, celebrates beloved WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle and the GIs for whom he spent his life in loving sacrifice. 

Ernie Pyle was America’s favorite newspaperman during the war.  Syndicated in over 200 dailies and 300 weeklies, this Pulitzer Prize winning journalist served as a link between men at the front and their loved ones back home.  His articles were a folksy style much like a personal letter to a friend.

Following the entry of the U.S. into World War II, Pyle became a war correspondent, applying his intimate style to the war.  Instead of the movements of armies or the activites of generals, Pyle wrote from the perspective of the common soldier, an approach that won him not only further popularity but also the Pulitzer Prize.  He did not glorify war, but rather the simple heroism of the American GI who fought and was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.  His style was a journalistic, unadorned, rugged way of writing, more so than almost any other writer of his time or since.

Among his most widely read and reprinted columns is “The Death of Captain Waskow.”  His wartime writings are preserved in four books:  Ernie Pyle in England, Here is Your War, Brave Men, and Last Chapter.

This gritty production captures the horrors of war and celebrates their sacrifice and our freedoms.  The play takes the audience just behind the front lines in France, to a ship at sea, to Sicily, and to Italy, Anzio, Normandy, Cherbourg and the liberation of Paris.

Rick Plummer has directed over 150 productions and has played many roles in a thirty year career as a professional actor, director, and theater educator.  Dr. Plummer manages the Theater and Performing Arts program at West Shore Community College.

7:30 p.m.   Main Stage.  Tickets: $10.

The Dogwood Center Box Office is open Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and one hour prior to an event.  For information, phone 231.924.8885.

“The Next Evangelicalism & the Changing Face of American Christians” with Soong Chan Rah

Webcast provided by Calvin College, Fremont Area Community Foundation, and the Dogwood Center.

Soong Chan Rah is the Milton B. Engebretson Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago.  He is the author of The Next Evangelicalism:  Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP, 2009). 

Rah served as the founding senior pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church, a multi-ethnic, urban, post-modern generation church in the Central Square neighborhood of Cambridge, MA.  He currently serves on the boards of Sojourners and the Catalyst Leadership Center.  In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, he will be speaking on the vision for the multi-cultural church.

This lecture will be broadcast via webcast in the Dogwood Center’s Black Box from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Admission is free.  A free lunch is available to those who RSVP the Fremont Area Community Foundation, 231.924.5350, at least 24 hours ahead.

Admission is free.  Doors to the Black Box open at 12 noon.