Meeting

Sunday, March 25, 4-5:30pm, David’s United Church of Christ [UCC], 80 W. Columbus St., Canal Winchester, Ohio

J. Bennett (Ben) Guess, executive director, ACLU of Ohio, will be the keynote speaker for the kickoff of a new PFLAG Columbus meeting in Canal Winchester, Ohio. He will speak at the inaugural meeting on Sunday, March 25, at 4pm, at David’s United Church of Christ [UCC], 80 W. Columbus St., in Canal Winchester, Ohio.

Monday, March 26, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: Sandy Bolzenius will talk about her soon-to-be-published [April 2018] book, Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army during World War II.

Saturday, March 24, 12:30-2:30 pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.

Saturday, April 7, 9:30am-3:30pm [registration begins at 9am], First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

A statewide gathering of local chapters of the national Move to Amend organization that is calling for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to reverse several U.S. Supreme Court decisions during the past century and thereby to firmly establish that corporations are not people and that money is not free speech.

Thursday, April 5, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

We are the Columbus branch of the International Socialist Organization. We are opposed to all oppression and fight for a world centered around human need, not corporate greed. We are students, community members, workers, and activists. We are socialists.

Contact: iso.columbus@gmail.com

Thursday, April 5, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a multi-racial group organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.

Email SURJColumbusOH@gmail.com with any questions.

Thursday, April 5, 4-6pm, OSU Faculty Club [Grand Lounge], 181 S. Oval Dr.

The Center for the Study of Religion presents a Religious Studies Symposium: “Taking the UFO Phenomenon Seriously, that is, Religiously.”

The fourth in a series of events hosted by the OSU Center for the Study of Religion during the 2017-2018 academic year on the theme of “Religion, Narrative, and Media” will present a conversation between Jeffrey Kripal (Rice University) and Diana Pasulka (University of North Carolina Wilmington).

Wednesday, April 4, 7-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Rm. 1-A], 96 S. Grant Ave.

Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.

Contact: centralohio@jvp.org

Tuesday, April 3, 4-6pm, OSU Faculty Club [Grand Lounge], 181 S. Oval Dr.

This event, the third in a series of events hosted by the OSU Center for the Study of Religion during the 2017-2018 academic year on the theme of “Religion, Narrative, and Media,” will present a conversation between Diane Winston [University of Southern California] and Krista Tippett [host of “On Being”].

All events in this series begin at 4pm at the OSU Faculty Club and are free and open to the public.

Friday, March 30, 12noon-1pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.