Connect, Explore, Engage: Sunday Morning Adult Faith Formation
Beginning Sept. 7, our adult learning opportunities will resume on Sunday mornings—and one is even available online! We will study a variety of relevant sources, enjoy meaningful discussion, and gain a fresh perspective of our faith. We invite you to experience these warm, engaging communities as we connect with one another and journey toward a richer understanding of God’s word. All adults are welcome!
Village Forum
9:30-10:30 a.m. Sundays, Sept. 7-Dec. 21, Rooms 126/127, Mission Campus
Contact: Jim Gibson
Village Forum kicks off the year with a four-week series by our favorite outside presenter, Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Avila University. Drawing from her current project and the book “Dignity” by Donna Hicks, Leslie will lead us in a discussion on conflict resolution from an ethics perspective. If you haven’t taken a class with Leslie, you are in for a treat! Registration for this four-week session opens Sunday, Aug. 24. Register HERE.
This is an ongoing adult faith formation and scripture study class that will continue after the conclusion of this four-week special series. No registration is required for other class sessions after this four-week series.
Faith Journeys
10 a.m.-11 a.m. Sundays, Sept. 7-Dec. 21, Room 124, Mission Campus
Contact: Kathy Ray
This fall, we will study “Holy Envy,” by Barbara Brown Taylor and “I Asked for Wonder” by Abraham Joshua Heschel. In “Holy Envy,” Taylor recounts her discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia. She contemplates the myriad ways other people and traditions encounter the Transcendent, both by digging deeper into those traditions herself and by seeing them through her students’ eyes. The one constant in her odyssey is the sense that God is the one calling her to disown her version of God—a change that ultimately enriches her faith.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is considered by many to be one of the most significant Jewish theologians of the 20th Century. In “I Asked for Wonder,” he finds just the right words to startle the mind and delight the heart. He addresses and challenges the whole person, portraying that rarest of human phenomena—the holy man. His prophetic spirituality is just as strongly needed today, as we face so many forms of darkness, including the racism and violence that energized Heschel’s prophetic voice in the 1960s.
No registration is required for this class.
Foundations of Faith
11 a.m.-noon Sundays Sept. 14-Nov. 23, online only — Join the class on Zoom
Contact: Diann Markley
Foundations of Faith, taught by Rev. Dwight Tawney, focuses on the cultural and spiritual foundations of the Bible as viewed from archaeology, theology, and science. Join our online Zoom conversations as we study the tumultuous history of Jerusalem. No registration is required for this class.
Information about Sunday adult classes at Antioch Campus is coming soon!
Contact: Rev. Anna Owens