Paths Toward Purpose and Meaning Making

Paths Toward Purpose and Meaning Making
Join local a panel of local clergy for conversation about how their traditions understand purpose and meaning, and how that does and does not inform their own spiritual journeys.

Tuesday, July 16 at 1:00 p.m.

In-person at Berkshire Community College

Free and open to all. 

Light refreshments following the program

Panelists include:

Rev. Sheila Sholes-Ross was ordained through American Baptist Churches and called as the 30th pastor of First Baptist Church of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, November 2013; historic as the church's first African-American female pastor.

Born in Worcester, raised in the Midwest, and ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2006, Rabbi David Weiner has served as the spiritual leader of Knesset Israel in Pittsfield for fifteen years. His areas of focus include interfaith pastoral care, classical biblical commentary (midrash), and adult and special needs education. He is a past president of the Pittsfield Area Council of Congregations.

Jim Armstrong is a native of Pittsfield and a lifelong member of the Catholic church, and now a member of St. Joseph Church on North Street. He spent 39 years teaching, many years in local Catholic Schools. Jim has also served as a hospital chaplain at BMC.

Moderated by Rev. Carol Allman-Morton, executive director of OLLI at BCC and Unitarian Universalist minister at the UU Meeting of South Berkshire in Housatonic, MA.

Sponsored by Pittsfield Area Clergy Council and OLLI at Berkshire Community College