Series: Iowa CFO 1972

Skinner Never Ran a Church Altar Guild

Morton Kelsey surveys theories of human aggression at the 1972 Iowa CFO. He runs from B.F. Skinner’s utopian Walden Two, needled with “Skinner never ran a church altar guild,” to Freud’s death wish. He then offers his own answer: the Lord’s Prayer petition to be delivered “from the evil one.”

The Woman Who Could Not Lock the Cage

Herb Nabb explains the prayer for healing of memories at the Iowa CFO camp in 1972. He describes how he asks Jesus Christ to walk back into a person’s memory and heal old wounds. He tells of a woman who stopped compulsively washing her hands after admitting she was teased as “toothpicks” as a child.