History of Great Speakers At Fountain Street Church

Susan B. Anthony
Winston Churchill
William Jennings Bryan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Clarence Darrow
Helen Keller
Arthur Vandenberg
Linus Pauling
Walter Rauschenbusch
Helen Thomas
Arnold Toynbee
Ralph Bunche
Henry Nelson Wieman
Paul Tillich
Margaret Sanger
Malcom X
Prince William of Sweden
Francis Townsend
Grand Duke Alexander of Russia
Lyman Abbott
Robert M. LaFollette
David Starr Jordan
Senator Carl Levin
Harry Golden
Rev. Sloan Coffin
Bishop James Pike
Rabbi Sherwin Wine
Sidney J. Harris
Grand Duchess Maria of Russia
Robert Bly
Robert Frost
Stokley Carmichael
Paul Erlich
Dale Carnegie
Joseph Campbell
Bayard Ruskin
Gloria Steinem
Ameila Earhart
Norman Vincent Peale
Harry Golden
Gerald R. Ford
Ashley Montagu
J. Herman Randall Sr.
Thomas Moore
Julian Bond
Dick Gregory
Margaret Mead
Lowell Thomas
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Forrest Church
Norman Thomas
Mel Trotter
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Michael Moore
Alan Watts
Molly Ivins
Richard Leakey
Amy Goodman
UN Ambassador George McGovern
Alden Dow
Harlow Shapley
Jim Hightower
Louis Leakey
Kreskin
Wendell Berry
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Eugene O’Neill
Irshad Manji
Kweisi Mfume

NEXT EVENT:

The Human Body
The Human Spirit
& the Future of Health Care

Speech & Talk back by
Sherwin Nuland, MD FACS

Tuesday, Feb. 9th
7:00 PM At Fountain Street Church

Tickets are $10 in advance,
$15 at door. Available at Schuler Books, Creative Learning & On-line here. Students under 21 years old with a valid ID may pick up a free ticket at the church on the night of the event.

Tickets purchased on line will not be mailed. You can pick up your ticket at the will-call table on the night of the speech starting at 6:30 PM.

Dr. Sherwin Nuland is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale and is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history and ethics of medicine. He is author of a dozen books including the best seller How We Die, which won the National Book Award and made Nuland a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Some of his other books include: The Wisdom of the Body, The Art of Aging, The Soul of Medicine and others. A frequent contributor on NPR and most major TV networks, he is often asked to weigh-in on questions of bio-ethics in the current health care reform legislation.

Payment for Sponsorships, Program Book Ads and Dinner with Dr. Nuland available here


The mission of the Great Speakers Committee is to invite provocative speakers to our sanctuary that will enrich the whole community and encourage the flow of ideas that is the spirit of Fountain Street Church's free pulpit.

Goals:

  • To seek wide range of speakers and topics on new and divergent ideas and thoughts.
  • To broaden subject areas to attract expanded, diverse community audience
  • To expand community, institutional and area leader networking and collaboration, to establish long-term positive change.
    Media Sponsor:

    "I always felt a good physician should have a pastoral relationship with his or her patient. Not quite as a brother or father figure, but as a guide, and that includes the spiritual."