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September Sunday Services:
Sunday Worship and The Forum
See our calendar to stay updated. Subject to change.
Find Zoom links here Sunday @Zoom.
The Forum Live at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, September 1, 2024
Ballot Measure #1: Higher Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Leave and Worker Protections
AFL-CIO President Joelle Hall
Joelle Hall is the President of the Alaska AFL-CIO, elected in 2020. She is the first woman to hold the role. Prior to her election, she served as the Alaska AFL-CIO Political Director for 11 years. Joelle has worked in Alaska politics for over 30 years with emphasis on electoral campaigns and advocacy work. She has built and managed large campaigns and community coalitions. Prior to coming to the AFL-CIO, Joelle was Executive Director of the Alaska Democratic Party and had her own consulting business for 10 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Language from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and in a previous life, Joelle was an interrogator/paratrooper in the US Army and an AFS exchange student to Honduras. Joelle and her husband Mallie have two grown children and live in Peters Creek.
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Sunday Worship Live at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, September 1, 2024
Union Strong, Union Proud
Barb Clark
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The Forum IN PERSON & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, September 8, 2024
A TV & Film Actor’s Play about Battling His Son’s Brain Cancer with Hope & Love
James Morrison, Paul Brown, Dave Block
James Morrison is a playwright, TV, film and stage actor, filmmaker, poet, singer-songwriter and yoga teacher. He was raised in Anchorage, served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre, and since has appeared at the La Jolla Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, Princeton's McCarter Theatre, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Salt Lake Acting Company, The Old Globe, L.A. Theatre Works, the Edinburgh Festival, and on London's West End. James has been nominated for a SAG Award, received the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award and three Drama-Logue Awards for performance. Film appearances include The Jazz Funeral, Catch Me If You Can, and Jarhead. On television, in addition to the Emmy-winning series 24, he was a regular on Those Who Kill and the cult sci-fi series Space: Above and Beyond. and has had other recurring roles and countless guest appearances in shows like Frasier, West Wing, Law & Order: SVU, Twin Peaks, Private Practice, Six Feet Under, and Revenge. He is in Anchorage to perform his one-man play, “Leave Your Fears Here,” exploring his family’s journey after their young son was diagnosed with brain cancer.
https://www.thejamesmorrison.com/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0607175/
David Block is the Artistic Director of Midnight Sun Theatre. David has directed countless productions in Anchorage at almost every venue and company. He has appeared on stage, or behind the scenes with productions in Anchorage, Juneau, Honolulu, Los Angeles and at the Edinburgh Fringe. In addition, he has written more than 20 plays, including one commissioned by the Municipality and School District about the Anchorage Centennial. David was an educator in the Anchorage School District for more than 25 years and received numerous awards including MIT's Most Inspirational Teacher, AEA's Teacher of the Year, and Best Teacher in Anchorage by the Anchorage Press. The arts program which he helped develop at West Anchorage High School was recognized as the 2022 Performing Arts School of Excellence by the National Federation of High Schools and was selected as a Creative Ticket School of Excellence by the Kennedy Center.
Paul Brown has more than forty-five years’ experience in management, fund-raising, marketing and organizational development. He was a founder and producing director of Alaska Repertory Theatre, the first professional theatre in Alaska. He later transitioned from producing theatre to producing films, including documentaries about former Governor Wally Hickel and Senator Ted Stevens (research and pre-production). He chaired the commission for the design, development and funding of the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, and helped establish Alaska’s Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and plan the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Alaska statehood. Paul has been deeply involved in national and international efforts to assist victims of depleted uranium, including American military veterans and indigenous and other local populations in combat zones. He is a member of Bridge Builders, and Backbone, and a board member of “You Gotta Believe,” a Brooklyn-based organization whose mission is to find permanent homes for foster children over the age of ten. He is a parent, with thirteen- and eight-year-old grandchildren.
Sunday Worship at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, September 8, 2024
The Forum Live at AUUF & on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, September 15, 2024
Turning 90: Approaching My Next Summit, and Still Stopping for the Flowers
Tom Choate
Tom Choate is a mountain climbing legend, former college biology professor with a Ph.D. from University of Montana, a ski infantryman for the Air National guard in the ‘50’s, and the first ranger naturalist in Mt McKinley National Park (now Denali National Park). Before coming back to Alaska in the late ‘70s, Tom and his family lived in New Zealand, he spent four years doing Antarctic research on penguins and their predators, and spent ten years in South Africa launching climbs to Kilimanjaro and many other outdoor activities. He has reached the peak of Denali multiple times spanning across five different decades, and was the oldest person to summit Denali, at the age of 78, in 2013.
Sunday Worship Live at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, September 15, 2024
Twelve Steps the Secular Way
Rev. Lise Adams Sherry & Michele Champion
The Forum Only on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, September 22, 2024
Deweaponizing the Bible
Rev. Matt Schultz
Rev. Matt Schultz graduated from Westminster College with a BA in Art in 1995. He is married to Rev. Elizabeth Schultz. Together, they attended Princeton Theological Seminary and are ordained as pastors in the Presbyterian Church (USA). They live in Anchorage, Alaska, where they go on wild adventures with their three beautiful children, two awesome dogs, and one average cat. Since 2013 Matt has been the pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Anchorage, and also serves with Christians for Equality, the Homelessness Leadership Council, and other city and statewide service and advocacy groups.
Sunday Worship Live at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, September 22, 2024
Principles to Values to JETPIG!
Rev. Lise Sherry, Maribeth Snell
The Forum only on Zoom
9:00 am Sunday, September 29, 2024
Remembering U.S. Senator Bob Bartlett
Joe Josephson, former State Senator and Bartlett Aide, with Andy Josephson
Joe Josephson has a long history of political and public service in Alaska beginning in 1957 when he served as legislative assistant to Alaska Delegate in Congress, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. In 1959, When Bartlett became Alaska's first United States Senator in 1959, Josephson continued as his legislative assistant until 1960. Josephson had earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1953, and attended Columbia University Law School from 1953 to 1955, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He finished his law degree at Catholic University of America in 1960, and was appointed that year by President John F. Kennedy as the Chair of the Alaska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He was admitted to the Alaska Bar Association in 1961, and In 1962 was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives. He held that position until 1966 when he became a member of the Anchorage City Council, later of the Borough Assembly. Following passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Josephson also served as State Co-Chair of the Joint Federal-State Land Use Planning Commission, appointed by Alaska Governor Bill Egan. Josephson served his first term in the Alaska State Senate from 1968 to 1972. In 1975, he was vice-chair of the Anchorage Charter Commission, which unified the Anchorage Borough and City of Anchorage. Between 1982 and 1988, he served again in the Alaska State Senate. He has served as president of the boards of Southcentral Alaska Red Cross, Congregation Beth Sholom, and Out North Theatre, and as a board member for Alaska Civil Liberties Union, Child Care Connection, and Cook Inlet Historical Society, and also served as adjunct instructor at UAA. A husband and father of five, Josephson continues to practice law in Anchorage.
Sunday Worship Live at AUUF & on Zoom
11:00 am Sunday, September 29, 2024