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Table Talk: Uncertain Times

Mon, Nov 08

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Clay Pit

Please join us at the Clay Pit for a fascinating conversation with Steven Hebbard

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Table Talk: Uncertain Times
Table Talk: Uncertain Times

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Nov 08, 2021, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Clay Pit, 1601 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

About The Event

***Seating at our table talks is limited to the first 20 attendees. Additional registrants will be put onto a waitlist. A complimentary dinner is provided for all attendees.***

In today’s world, we talk of time as a possession. It is a commodity that can be gained, spent, or lost. But before the invention of the clock, people understood time as God’s time, something too big to own or use. Days, lunar cycles, and seasons marked the turning of a cosmos; they reflected a sometimes scary and mysterious universe whose time we inhabit rather than control.

In a moment, the pandemic grounded to a halt the daily hum of our ordered sense of time. And even though much of daily life returned to normal, a sense of uncertainty hung over us like a cloud, or like a broken clock. Forces, in some cases too mysterious to name, are reducing certainties. These forces…

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