Special Offerings 
Faith in Democracy
Date TBA, Fall, 2012, 7:00 PM
Bee Moorhead, Executive Director, Texas Impact
About Texas Impact
Texas Impact is a statewide religious grassroots network whose members include individuals, congregations, and governing bodies of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. Texas Impact exists to advance state public policies that are consistent with universally held social principles of the Abrahamic traditions.
Texas Impact accomplishes its mission by developing grassroots networks in local communities and mobilizing them to advocate with their legislators on specific issues. Developing these networks includes a process of broad policy and advocacy education in congregations and denominational bodies; teambuilding in local faith communities; leadership development with key individuals and groups; and coordination with lawmakers, media, and other public interest groups.
Texas Impact was founded on the central religious conviction that religious communities are called to minister to the whole person—to respond with compassion to the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of all people. The Texas religious leaders who established Texas Impact in 1973 believed that such a ministry cannot be performed adequately without a concern for basic social problems at the state government level.
About Bee Moorhead
Bee is a respected leader in public policy and faith-based advocacy at the state and national levels.
Under her leadership, Texas Impact has moved from fewer than 1,000 members to more than 20,000 members and earned recognition as a national leader in interfaith education and community leadership development.
Bee holds a Master's Degree from the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from UT-Austin.
In 2011 she was awarded the “Trailblazer” Award by the National Council of Jewish Women.
An ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Bee has been a member of University Presbyterian Church in Austin since 1983.
Previous Special Offering
Five Serious Contradictions in the Letters of Paul
that Plague the Church Even Today
Two Monday Evenings, February 20 and 27, 2012. 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Special presentation by Norman A. Beck, Ph.D., Professor of Classical Languages and Theology at Texas Lutheran University, with discusssion afterwards and a follow-up discussion a week later facilitated by Earl Koester.
Suggested Reading: If you have time to read before Dr. Beck's presentation, we suggest The Sins of Scripture and/or Ten Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job). With sufficient interest, we will discuss these books in one or more Monday evening follow-up sessions to Dr. Beck's presentation. Both volumes are also on the suggested list for the Book Study Group.