NAVIGATING THE STORMS OF LIFE
speaker series

Happiness comes and goes like waves on a shore. Although life’s storms my be inevitable, perspective, faith, creativity, and practical strategies can help us navigate them with resilience and hope. Each guest in this series has shared how they have faced some of life’s challenges, found the strength to endure and, when possible, kept a sense of humor and humility in dark moments. Each conversation runs 40 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. The third and final session is with actress Jan Lucas.

Jan Lucas

Thursday, October 22 | 7 pm | 7171 N Pennsylvania St | Sanctuary

Jan Lucas is the author of My Beautiful Leukemia, a memoir in which she shares her story of navigating cancer and divorce after 30 years of marriage. An actor, writer, and musician, she is also a dog lover and mother of three awesome sons. She can be found a couple times a week walking dogs at the humane society shelter and coming home to her own beloved pup. She recently moved from a house in the country to a small house in town and is finding a whole new way of living in community. A 3-week discussion group will follow.

THE GARDEN PRESENTS

Philip Gulley
The Things That Give Me Hope

Friday, November 13 | 7 pm | 7171 N Pennsylvania St | Sanctuary

“It is tempting to lose faith in the future, to believe we are doomed, that the American Experiment is winding to an end. But I have hope. There is growing resistance to the programs of Donald Trump, new voices are emerging, creative resistance is blossoming across America.”

--Philip Gulley

You are invited to an evening of positive and hopeful celebration, of witnessing the growth of justice in this era of injustice, of light amidst this present darkness, and hope amidst despair.

Philip is a well-known local Quaker pastor, writer and speaker. He has written 22 books including the “Harmony” series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana. His progressive spirituality books include If the Church Were Christian and Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe. He writes weekly on his “Plain Speech with Philip Gulley” site.

Jan Lucas

Philip GulleyThe Things That Give Me Hope

Philip Gulley
The Things That Give Me Hope