East Hampton Local News

After 30 wonderful years, East Hampton’s Scoop Du Jour is closing.
To show our appreciation of this iconic meeting place, we are offering a free download of the Scoop Du Jour coloring page from our Color East Hampton coloring book. 

For a free download, go to:
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Have a delicious coloring experience!
Stay Safe,
Ron and Jake Rose

BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, BART EHRMAN,

TO GIVE ZOOM TALK ON JANUARY 9, 2020

East Hampton, New York -- Bart Ehrman, a New York Times bestselling historian of Heaven and Hell: A History of the After Life will give a Zoom talk about the origins of heaven and hell and why they endure? His compelling Zoom talk will be hosted by St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The public is invited to tune in by visiting stlukeseasthampton.org on January 9 at 10:30 AM.

Bart Ehrman will recount the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. He will discuss ancient guided tours of heaven and hell, in which a living person observes the sublime blessings of heaven for those who are saved and the horrifying torments of hell for the damned. Some of these accounts take the form of near death experiences, the oldest on record, with intriguing similarities to those reported today.

One of Ehrman’s startling conclusions is that there never was a single Greek, Jewish, or Christian understanding of the afterlife, but numerous competing views. Moreover, these views did not come from nowhere; they were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. Only later, in the early Christian centuries, did they develop into the notions of eternal bliss or damnation widely accepted today.

Bart Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOSTS
BIANCA JAGGER
FOR INTERNATIONAL TALK ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS

East Hampton, NY --- St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will host, via Zoom, a talk from London by Bianca Jagger on the topic of human rights. Her talk will take place on December 10 at 2 PM. To reserve a Zoom link, attendees should visit www.stlukeseasthampton.org

“I am delighted that Bianca accepted our invitation to be a speaker to people throughout Long Island on a subject of such contemporary importance,” said her friend Jeffrey Sussman. “Bianca has committed her life to defending human rights, civil liberties, peace, social justice, and environmental protection throughout the world.”
She campaigns to end violence against women and girls, to abolish capital punishment and advocates for the rights of indigenous peoples and future generations. She is Founder, President, and Chief Executive of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation (BJHRF), which she established in 2005 to be a force for change and a voice for the most vulnerable. She is Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, a Member of the Executive Director’s Leadership Council for Amnesty International USA, IUCN Bonn Challenge Ambassador.
Ms. Jagger is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including The Right Livelihood Award (2004) also known as the “alternative Nobel prize.”

Her other awards for human rights, humanitarian and environmental work include:
The United Nations Earth Day International Award (1994)
Abolitionist of the Year Award by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (1996)
The Amnesty International USA Media Spotlight Award for Leadership
(1997)
The Green Globe Award from the Rainbow Alliance (1997)
American Civil Liberties Union Award (1998)
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer Champion of Justice Award (2000)
The World Achievement Award (2004)
The World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (2006)
Lifetime Achievement Award at the Latin-UK Awards (LUKAS) (2015)
The Nuestra Madre Award from Americas for Conservation and the Arts (2015)
The Mayahuel Award at the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the Iguana del Oro Award at the Puerto Vallarta International Film Festival (2016)