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Rothermel Educational Programs

An endowed lecture series of First Presbyterian Church that has established an ecumenical and interfaith board to secure speakers of national and international acclaim, and to plan program topics of current interest on matters primarily, though not exclusively, having to do with where science and religion intersect. Typically two events are scheduled annually, one in the fall and one in the spring.

The Rothermel Foundation came into being in 1989 with a bequest from the late Amel Rothermel, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, with the objective to further religious faith in a Supreme Being in a modern , scientific age

Board of Trustees

Barbara Berk, Temple B'Nai Sholem

Nancy Bowers, Christ Episcopal

Bryan Brown, St. Paul’s Roman Catholic

Charles M. Dettor, First Presbyterian

Ed Doty, First Presbyterian

David Duane, Centenary United Methodist

Stacey Griffith, First Presbyterian

Jean Huryn, Garber Methodist

Sally Maestripieri, First Presbyterian

Brent Schlottman, First Presbyterian

Linda Staunch, First Presbyterian

Phil Smith, First Baptist

 

 

Future Programs

 

Oil and Gas Exploration and Production        Offshore North Carolina

Could it Happen? Should it Happen? Will it Happen?

March 9, 2008

 

 

 

Past Rothermel Programs
Interfaith Dialogue

 Mark Pelavin

Assoc. Dir. of Religious Action

 Center of Reform Judaism

November 2005

TRUTH AND FICTION IN THE DA VINCI CODE

 Dr. Bart D. Ehrman

Chair, Department of Religious Studies  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

May 2005

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible

Dr. James C. VanderKamm

Professor of Hebrew Scriptures

 Notre Dame U.

October 2004

Environmental Health - Life or Half-life

Dr. Dade W. Moeller

 

 Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health, and a former Associate Dean of the School of Public Health

 

 Harvard University

 

February 2005

The Religious Crisis of the Civil War

Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr.  

 Professor

 Virginia Tech

February 2003

Current Concepts in Biotechnology

W. Stephen Burke

 Sr. VP       

NC Biotechnology Center

November 2003

"Healthy Diets" 

Dr. John J.B. Anderson

Professor of Nutrition

 School of Public Health and Medicine

UNC at Chapel Hill   

 

February 2004

Stem Cell research: Miracle or Mayhem?

Dr. Nelson Chao

Professor of Medicine and Immunology

Duke University

&

Dr. Karen Lebacqz

  Professor of Theological Ethics

Pacific School of Religion, Berkley, Ca.

Apocalyptic literature of the Holy Bible

Rev. Dr. James Efird

Professor of Biblical Interpretation

    Duke University

What Americans need to Know About Muslims and Islam

George W. Braswell, Jr., D. Min., Ph.D

Campbell University

February 26, 2006

 

Ethics in Future of Nanotechnology

Dr. Vicki L. Colvin

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

Rice Quantum Institute

November 19, 2006

Ethics and Embryos

The Issues in Stem Cell Research

Ronald M. Green, Ph. D.

The Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values

Dartmouth College

February 11, 2007