“Setting Pro-Life on its Ear”
Friday, February 1, 2019 at 10 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters & Stephanie Fraim,
CEO & President PPSWCF
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters, nationally regarded feminist and Christian social ethicist, will discuss her new book, Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice (Beacon Press, 2018). Peters’ work reframes the abortion debate and examines the moral questions underlying it. She explores women’s rights and abortion rights from a faith-based perspective.
Rev. Peters will be available to sign her new book, which can be purchased following the event.
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters
Rev. Peters is a feminist and Christian social ethicist who serves as a professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. She received her B.A. from Rhodes College in Art and English and her M.Div. and Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was also ordained as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and worked in the PCUSA national office of Women's Ministries for six years.
Peters is a past President of the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Region and was Elon University's 2011–12 Distinguished Scholar. She also served as the Founding Director of the Poverty and Social Justice program at Elon.
Rev. Peters will be available to sign her new book, which can be purchased following the event.
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Todd Peters
Rev. Peters is a feminist and Christian social ethicist who serves as a professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. She received her B.A. from Rhodes College in Art and English and her M.Div. and Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She was also ordained as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and worked in the PCUSA national office of Women's Ministries for six years.
Peters is a past President of the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Region and was Elon University's 2011–12 Distinguished Scholar. She also served as the Founding Director of the Poverty and Social Justice program at Elon.
Stephanie Fraim, the dynamic new CEO and President of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida will talk to us about how the current administration’s regulations and court appointments impact reproductive and sexual health care and freedom in the country and the state of Florida. She’ll also explain what Planned Parenthood is doing to protect care for young people and get respectful, medically accurate information to the community. And, finally: what happens if the Supreme Court demolishes or overturns Roe v. Wade?
Stephanie Fraim
February 2019 will mark the first anniversary of Stephanie’s arrival in Sarasota. However, she’s not new to the Planned Parenthood family or the fight for social justice and safe health care for all. For more than 16 years she has been a leading voice on an executive level with affiliates from Ohio to California to Washington, D.C. She’s brought her bold ideas and mission dedication with her, and we’re seeing her signature style positively influencing our Sarasota health care community, as well as in 22 counties in Florida from Naples to Tampa to Orlando.
Our thanks go to the Florida Interfaith Coalition for Reproductive Health, Progress Florida and Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida for their support.
February 1st - “Setting Pro-Life on its Ear”
Speakers: Rebecca Todd Peters, Professor of Religious Studies; Director, Poverty and Social Justice program at Elon University; Author of “Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice,” and Stephanie Fraim, CEO of Planned Parenthood, SW & Central FL
March 1st - “Transition Towns: The Future is Ours to Save”
Speaker: Don Hall, Co-Director of Transition US and former Executive Director of Transition Sarasota, which facilitates the Suncoast Gleaning Project, coordinates Greater Sarasota's Eat Local Week, and publishes Greater Sarasota's Eat Local Resource Guide & Directory.
April 5th - “Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew”
Speaker: Ellen Prager, Oceanographer, author of “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime” and the upcoming book, “Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew.”
May 3rd - “The Power of a Trauma Informed Community, Overcoming the Adverse Impact of Childhood Trauma”
Speaker: Carrie Seidman, Columnist for the Sarasota Herald Tribune since 2010, Former staff writer for the New York Times, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Tribune
Speakers: Rebecca Todd Peters, Professor of Religious Studies; Director, Poverty and Social Justice program at Elon University; Author of “Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice,” and Stephanie Fraim, CEO of Planned Parenthood, SW & Central FL
March 1st - “Transition Towns: The Future is Ours to Save”
Speaker: Don Hall, Co-Director of Transition US and former Executive Director of Transition Sarasota, which facilitates the Suncoast Gleaning Project, coordinates Greater Sarasota's Eat Local Week, and publishes Greater Sarasota's Eat Local Resource Guide & Directory.
April 5th - “Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew”
Speaker: Ellen Prager, Oceanographer, author of “Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime” and the upcoming book, “Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew.”
May 3rd - “The Power of a Trauma Informed Community, Overcoming the Adverse Impact of Childhood Trauma”
Speaker: Carrie Seidman, Columnist for the Sarasota Herald Tribune since 2010, Former staff writer for the New York Times, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Tribune
Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota
3975 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL 34232
Everyone is Welcome!
Admission is Free. Donations are Welcome.
email: freethinkersuucs@gmail.com
3975 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL 34232
Everyone is Welcome!
Admission is Free. Donations are Welcome.
email: freethinkersuucs@gmail.com