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Adult Study and Discussion GroupsPastor's Book Study & Discussion Part of our adult theological re-education program, the classes help us to grapple with faith questions and issues, and to grow in faith. Classes are held most Mondays at 10:00 to 11:30 and Thursdays at 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the conference room. Check our calendar for actual dates. Everyone is welcome, including senior high youth and adults. Linda Butler is the discussion leader. Come and bring a friend. If you have any questions about the class, contact the church office, 266-0464. During January we will wrap up our study of “Embracing Emergence Christianity: Phyllis Tickle on the Church’s Next Rummage Sale," a six week study by Phyllis Tickle with Tim Scorer
New study begins February 6 - “Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be Restored” by Marcus Borg Modern Christians are steeped in a language so distorted that it has
become a stumbling block to the religion, says internationally renowned
Bible scholar Marcus J. Borg. Borg argues that Christianity’s important
words, and the sacred texts and stories in which those words are embedded,
have been narrowed by a modern framework for the faith that emphasizes sin,
forgiveness, Jesus dying for our sins, and the afterlife. Here, Borg employs
the “historical-metaphorical” method for understanding Christian language
that can restore for us these words of power and transformation. For
example, Please call the office if you would like us to order a book for you. Previous Books/DVD's:
“Embracing Emergence Christianity: Phyllis Tickle on
the Church’s Next Rummage Sale" - DVD series by Phyllis Tickle with
Tim Scorer
“A Hopeful Earth: Faith, Science, and the Message of Jesus” by Sally Dyck and Sarah Ehrman "Earthy Mysticism: Spirituality for Unspiritual People" by Tex Sample DVD and Workbook - "Embracing an Adult Faith: Marcus Borg on What it Means to be A Christian" "Living the Questions" DVD Study - "Uppity Women of the Bible" - featuring Dr. Lisa Wolfe "Journeys By Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power" by Rita Nakashima Brock "A New Spiritual Home: Progressive Christianity at the Grass Roots," by Hal Taussig "The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon," by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan DVD Study - "Living the Questions 2.0, An Introduction to Progressive Christianity" "The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus" by Amy-Jill Levine DVD Study - "Countering Pharaoh's Production-Consumption Society Today" featuring Walter Brueggemann "Jesus Rode a Donkey: Why Republicans Don't Have the Corner on Christ" by Linda Seger "Living the Questions" DVD Study - "Questioning Capital Punishment" featuring Sr. Helen Prejean "Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998" by James H. Cone "The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Birth" by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan "The Rapture Exposed" by Barbara R. Rossing "In Search of Belief" by Joan Chittester "God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome Then and Now" by John Dominic Crossan "The Last Week" by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan "A New Christianity for a New World" by John Shelby Spong "God's Politics" by Jim Wallis
UMW Bible Study
Canterbury Forum | |
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