This Bethany Forum features two of Bethany's own epidemiologists, Jay Wenger and Prince Bahati Ngongo.
The session will include 20 minutes of brief presentations on (1) what is covid and how do vaccines work; (2) what is different about the new covid vaccines; (3) when might covid vaccines be available in the US; (4) what is the plan for vaccines globally; and (5) what does all that mean for the pandemic. We’ll follow that with a 20 minute Q and A session responding to questions that might have been sent in already, and things that come up during the session.
Bahati Prince Ngongo is an advocate who works at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on a team focused on resource mobilization for Research and Development and equitable access to global health products.
Jay Wenger is a board certified infectious disease physician who works at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a team focused on eradicating polio globally.
The Vaccines for Covid-19 - Where We Are Now & What We Might Expect
Prince Bahati Ngongo & Jay Wenger
December 13, 2020
Listening, Learning, Loving: Empathy as a Practice
January 28, 2024 • Lynne Baab
Empathy is a listening skill that can be learned. Lynne Baab will draw on communication research about empathy to give an overview of what empathy is and how to grow in empathy. Lynne is a former Bethany associate pastor with a Ph.D. in communication.
Ecotheology
May 7, 2023 • Eric Long
In Genesis, we're told repeatedly that creation is good. But by the time we get to Paul's writings in Romans, we find that creation is groaning. What's gone wrong? And what's our role in God's plan for creation? In this forum, we'll explore the idea creation was intended as God's temple, and humans were (and are!) called to be priests of God's good creation. Registration will be required for this class, so we can plan numbers for lunch (look for more details and link to register coming in a dedicated E-News next week).
Acts 15: Living as Christians in a Pagan Society
June 4, 2023 • Bob Drovdahl • Acts 15
Seattle is a great city, but also a pagan one (or at least not very religious!). How do we live out our Christian faith in such an environment? That's a tough question, but not the first time Christians have faced such a challenge. This class will examine how Christians in Antioch answered this question 2000+ years ago... and what we might learn from their effort.