George Cohen, Susan Straight & Lee Valentine-Who Is Your God?

A panel of three presenters will describe how they think about God, what their definition of God is, and how their thinking about God has evolved over the years. Following their presentation, members of the congregation will be invited to share their thinking on this question.

George Cohen has been an educator, staff trainer, and group discussion leader for many years. As a volunteer in Santa Fe he taught Anger Management at the State Penitentiary and English as a Second Language to parents at a local Elementary School. He currently leads two discussion groups each week.
Susan Straight has been an IT manager at a large corporation , a community activist for 25 years and the Director of two non-profit organizations that she founded. She is committed to service, spending almost 8 years empowering Chinese college students to design and implement service programs in rural minority villages and inner city poor neighborhoods, leading to a published book about her experiences. As a tradition, she has followed the inner teachings of Sufism for the past 25 years. Most importantly she is a mother and grandmother.
Lee Valentine has taught sociology at Grinnell College, in Grinnell, Iowa, has managed his own computer consulting company, and has written a book on personal recovery (that is, on the effort to recover from personal problems, or from emotional illness). He is working at present on self-publishing this book, Out of the Labyrinth.