Category: Adult Forums

On April 12, 2026 Becky Crosby presented and adult forum on The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme’s art collection and its connection to the Old Lyme Art Community: The Florence Griswold Art Colony, The Lyme Art Association, and The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. The talk will feature 28 [...]

  Gregg Carlson from Convergence Consulting has been visiting with us this weekend. At the Adult Forum today Gregg will make a presentation on the work we have done together over the past year. This session will provide an opportunity for us to make comments and ask questions.  Also, during [...]

We were pleased to welcome Tom Piazza back to FCCOL on Sunday, November 9th.  Tom has been a long time friend of our community.  Most recently, he shared passages and insights from his most recent novel, The Auburn Conference, with us.  Prior to that, he visited us during our Sanctuary [...]

Faith-Based Community Organizing in Southeastern CT:  FCCOL has been meeting with other congregations across Southeast Connecticut (SE CT) to learn a form of faith-based community organizing that is grounded in relationship building and storytelling.  These conversations, both internal and external, are the building blocks to create a power-base for systemic change [...]

Speaker Professor Marc Zimmer from Connecticut College.   “The Duality of AI: Tutor, Collaborator and Creative Ally, but also Hallucinator, Intellectual Thief and Environmental Polluter.” September 28, 2025 Click Here to watch the video

“With These Hands” Sunday, May 4, 2025 Click Here to watch the video. A note from the Director JDPP’s work in carceral setings began at nearby York Correctional Institute in 2005. A chance meeting with Wally Lamb led to the idea of a year-long arts residency at York culminating in a [...]

   On Saturday, February 22nd  we were honored to have William Earle Williams, join us to talk about his exhibit at the Florence Griswold Museum.  The Florence Griswold Museum presents its first solo exhibition by a contemporary Black artist, Their Kindred Earth: Photographs by William Earle Williams, February 22 through [...]

On Sunday, February 23rd for the first time at The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, Tom Sherer presented a new idea for a series of Adult Forums: the “Moth” system: the sharing of stories that 1 – need to be short, and 2 – be true and 3 – [...]

Here is a link to the ACLU Town Hall Meeting that was held at The First Congregatioal Church of Old Lyme, on Thursday, January 9, 2025. Click here.

Adult Forum with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh and Dr. Mark Braverman    Sunday, December 8, 11:30 AM Click Here to watch the video. A Nativity in Ruins: Gaza and the Prophetic Imagination During the past year, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh has reported from the site of an ongoing catastrophe, chronicling the carnage of [...]