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First Palo Alto United Methodist Church

Great Decisions 2022 Recordings

Great Decisions 2022 Recordings

Follow the links below to view recordings of the Zoom talks on YouTube. These videos will be permanently available in our YouTube library.

February 27: “Russia and the U.S.”, led by Steve Pifer

Steve Pifer is a William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. He is a retired Foreign Service Officer who specialized in Russian and Eurasian affairs and served as Ambassador to Ukraine.

March 6: “Biden’s Foreign Policy”, led by Tom Fingar

Tom Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC fellow at Stanford and a former Assistant Secretary of State and Deputy Director of National Intelligence.

March 13: “Myanmar and ASEAN”, led by Scot Marciel

Marciel is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center and former ambassador to Myanmar.

March 20: “Quad Alliance”, led by Tom Fingar

Tom Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC fellow at Stanford and a former Assistant Secretary of State and Deputy Director of National Intelligence.

March 27: “Climate Change”, led by Dr. Rod Schoonover

Dr. Rod Schoonover is head of the ecological security program at the Council on Strategic Risks and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He served previously as Director of Environmental and Natural Resources at the National Intelligence Council, and as an environmental analyst in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

April 3: “Industrial Policy”, led by Tom Fingar

Tom Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC fellow at Stanford and a former Assistant Secretary of State and Deputy Director of National Intelligence.

April 10: “Outer Space”, led by Jay Santee

Jay Santee is a retired Air Force Major General and vice president for Strategic Space Operations at Aerospace Corporation.

April 24: “Drug Policy in Latin America”, led by Dr. Robert Crews

Dr. Crews received his PhD from Princeton, has won the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, and served as director of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.  He currently teaches a course on “The Global Drug Wars.”

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Sunday at 10:45 a.m.
In-person in our sanctuary and
live-streamed on our YOUTUBE.
For Sunday program of readings and songs,
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Wednesdays at 7 p.m. on Zoom
Upstream Contemporary Service
For the link, email INFO@FIRSTPALOALTO.COM.

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