The Breakfast Forum at UUCLV meets most Sundays before service to keep our congregation up-to-date with educational topics and social activism in line with our Principles. You are welcome to attend in person at the Lehigh Valley Active Life Center (1633 West Elm St., Allentown, PA 18102) or attend via Zoom.

The meetings begin at 8:30am with a meet & greet. The presentations begin at 9:00am and end at 10:00am to allow preparation for the worship service.

This Month’s Breakfast Forums

March 1

Reducing Road Salt Usage
Presented by Rick Morrissey, PA Road Salt Action Monocacy Watershed Association

Effect of use of salt on roads on the environment. Practical solutions for public safety and protection of waterways.

 

March 8

You’re Telling My Kids They Can’t Read This Book?
Presented by Andy Laties, Author and Owner of Book & Puppet Bookstore Easton

100 years of supporting a family’s right to read as book-banning movements restrict children’s literature.

 

March 15

James Blakslee’s Daring Canal Journey:
A Forgotten Tale from the 1830s
Presented by Martha Capwell Fox, Historian DLNHC

The remarkable story of James Irwin Blakslee, an 18-year-old who began his career in 1833 working for Asa Packer on PA’s canals. Hear his daring late-season voyage in 1834, transporting 10 tons of goods from NY to Mauch Chunk while racing against freezing conditions.

 

March 22

Weathering Psalms: A Meteorotheological Survey
Presented by Steve Wiggins

A survey of weather imagery in the biblical Book of Psalms, covering everything from paleoclimatology to the theological understanding of weather by the ancients. In his book a central point is: to understand the weather is somehow to glimpse the divine. The topic moves from its ancient contexts to the present-day scientific world.

 

March 29

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs
Presented by Gary D. Schnell, PhD

The scientific research on bird eggs presented by Gary D. Schnell, PhD, Professor Emeritus Oklahoma University