Programs

Nathan's Roundtable Dinner Forum
Meets and eats every Thursday from 7 PM to 8:30 PM. A small group of ordinary people meet for Dinner at Nathan's Deli (2004 Ashley River Road). Modeled on the old Algonquin Roundtable of Dorothy Parker and 1920's New York, the Nathan's Roundtable Dinner Forum we talk, discuss, poke fun at each other, and tackle topical problems. We network with each other. Our goal is to promote each other to upward, successful lifestyles.

Dorothy Parker's Algonquin Roundtable attracted the young who returned to New York after the First World War to start their careers. They self promoted each other until, in ten years, the Roundtablers became very successful playwrights, writers, and performers, most of whom ended in Hollywood. We hope to achieve the same results.

January 2008
We would like to honor the Charleston Clergy that gave birth to a noble adventure in inter religious friendship in the mid 1990's, the Charleston Congress of Religions. The Congress met for five years and clergy representing many denominations of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and many other religious perspectives became friends and reached personal understandings of each other.

The Congress didn't affect future world events but it was within this localized small scale group where respect for each other as well as each other's religion was achieved. We feel this was important. We feel this is worth revisiting in this era of fanaticism, hatred, and distrust between people and their religions if but for one evening.

We would like the clergy to be honored by the City of Charleston, the State of South Carolina, the United States of America, and each individual clergy member's religious denomination.