Because there is yet meaning in our lives that we wish to experience. The spiritual life is often compared to a journey - a pilgrimage ala John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Both have a keen interest and commitment to issues of diversity and inclusion. We human beings are meaning-seeking creatures. Philosophers seek to reason their way to the answer for the riddle of life, often doubting they have found it.
Theologians tend to believe they have found it, though there really is no evidence.
Somewhere between skepticism and dogmatism live a group of people known as Unitarian Universalists. Yet, we affirm that a lack of religious vision can cause much of the psychic and spiritual pain we see in our midst. Polly Radosh UUF's own Polly Radosh, Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies at WIU, will discuss the moral arguments for and against the death penalty, and the demographic profile of those under sentence of death. Polly teaches a course in Criminology, and takes a special interest in the death penalty and in women on death row. Pat Anderson, WIU Anthropology Professor and expert in Mayan culture, will discuss Classic Maya religion and contrast and compare it with the modern Maya religion of the Yucatec Maya of Yucatan, Mexico.