Loaded Words: God-talk in the Age of Fundamentalism.
Gary Eberle, Aquinas College
June 4, 11AM 
Lakeshore Interfaith Institute,6676 122nd Ave, Ganges Mi. 49408

Today the world is torn by an upsurge of fundamentalism in Islam, Judaism and Christianity.  To many, it seems
as though fundamentalists have laid siege to and captured religious language, taking it hostage and letting no others use  it.  This
workshop series examines religious language and loaded words like truth, myth, religion, tradition and God, in an attempt to give
religious liberals access to the vocabulary that fundamentalism wants to take away from them.  The time has come to liberate religious
language from those who have taken it hostage and want to use it for destructive and divisive ends. 
2PM -- A Workshop; Myth Truth and Religion. All are welcome!

There will be an interfaith service at noon led by Sharaga Michele Gauthier.
Jim Cooper will provide music. Coffee and snacks will be served.

You are welcome to bring a bag lunch and eat it in our dining area
We will provide beverages and some desert /snacks

	Gary Eberle, MA, professor of English and chairman of the English department, is the author of several books, including The Geography of Nowhere: Finding One's Self in the Postmodern World (Sheed & Ward, 1994); Angel Strings, a novel (Coffee House, 1995); A City Full of Rain, short stories (Xlibris 2001), and Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning (Shambhala, 2003). Since 1994, Eberle has twice been selected by the Student Senate as Outstanding faculty member of the year, and in 1994 he received an award from the Aquinas College faculty for outstanding scholarship.  He developed the Insignis Program for Honors Students in 1985 and directed it for 12 years.  His journalism and fiction have won awards locally and nationally, and his novel Angel Strings was named a “best book” by the New York Public Library in 1997. Active professionally, he has been president of the Mid-East Honors Association, the Michigan Honors Association, and is currently an officer of the Michigan Associated Departments of English. A more extensive biography and critical notes may be found in the on-line version of Contemporary Authors. His next book, Loaded Words: God-talk in the Age of Fundamentalism will be pusblished by Trumpeter Books in 2007.
P: (616) 632-2829 eberlgar@aquinas.edu