E-Portfolio Entry #4: Dr.Felder's Lecture 9-23-10

Dr. Felder came to lecture to our class on 9/29/ He is an ordained inister in the United Methodist Church. He headed the black caucus of the United Methodist Church. He has been in many important periodicals such as "USA Today", The New York Times", and "The Washington Post". The main focus of Dr.Felder's lecture was on how Jesus of Nazareth was the epitomy of freedom and justice. Dr. Felder, in his powerful and inspirational lecture said that, "freedom is the unfettered ability to exercise choice", from this he spoke that even though we do have this freedom to excercise choice, we must face the conseqences of these choices. An example he gave was that if we did something good, good consequences would result, now we excericed choice and chose to do seomthing good, but we are free and are therefore able to also choose to do something wrong, which would have a resulting consequnce based off of the choice. Dr.Felder's explanation of freedom, choice and consequence was very interesting and enlghtening to me. Dr. Felder came to lecture to our class on 9/29/ He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. He headed the black caucus of the United Methodist Church. He has been in many important periodicals such as "USA Today", The New York Times", and "The Washington Post". The main focus of Dr. Felder's lecture was on how Jesus of Nazareth was the epitome of freedom and justice. Dr. Felder, in his powerful and inspirational lecture said that, "freedom is the unfettered ability to exercise choice", from this he spoke that even though we do have this freedom to exercise choice, we must face the consequences of these choices. An example he gave was that if we did something good, good consequences would result, now we exercised choice and chose to do something good, but we are free and are therefore able to also choose to do something wrong, which would have a resulting consequence based off of the choice. Dr. Felder's explanation of freedom, choice and consequence was very interesting and enlightening to me. Dr. Felder also discussed many parts of the Bible that have been altered by history and many civilizations. For example, Dr. Felder spoke of how the Garden of Eden, according to the Bible must have truly been in Africa between the White and Blue Nile River. Dr. Felder’s lecture was not only informative in the basis of what he spoke about but it was also informative in the way he presented. Dr. Felder was able to capture my attention and made it seem to every audience member that he was speaking directly to you. From this, I have learned about a new way of personalizing speech in a way that all can relate which seems like a very important skill to have.