Tuesday, October 25
7:00 pm
SPOT is a new monthly Faith Formation offering that will focus on various spiritual practices we can use to grow deeper in our faith and relationship with God.
We plan to meet in the Sanctuary as we reflect on the spiritual practice from September and learn about our October practice, Centering Prayer. Centering Prayer gives us a tool to still ourselves so that we might be more aware of God’s presence and better listen for what God is saying to us. Remember to wear comfy clothes.
Thursdays
7:30 am
Online
“For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.”
Julian of Norwich (1343 – 1416) was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages.
Starting April 21, 2022
Thursdays
10:00 am
In person
Sabbath reminds us to honor God who honors us by giving us a day each week to reset our pace, our priorities, and our lives. In Celebrating Sabbath: Accepting God’s Gift of Rest and Delight, Carol M. Bechtel leads us through a study of Sabbath over nine lessons. Participants will consider Sabbath anew and will come away renewed.
STARTING SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Thursdays
5:30 pm
Online
Winner of the 2022 ECPA Christian Book Award for Faith & Culture
How do we effectively confront racial injustice? We need to move beyond talking about racism and start equipping ourselves to fight against it.
In this follow-up to the New York Times Bestseller the Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby offers an array of actionable items to confront racism. How to Fight Racism introduces a simple framework—the A.R.C. Of Racial Justice—that teaches readers to consistently interrogate their own actions and maintain a consistent posture of anti-racist behavior.
The A.R.C. Of Racial Justice is a clear model for how to think about race in productive ways:
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Awareness: educate yourself by studying history, exploring your personal narrative, and grasping what God says about the dignity of the human person.
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Relationships: understand the spiritual dimension of race relations and how authentic connections make reconciliation real and motivate you to act.
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Commitment: consistently fight systemic racism and work for racial justice by orienting your life to it.
Tisby offers practical tools for following this model and suggests that by applying these principles, we can help dismantle a social hierarchy long stratified by skin color. He encourages rejection passivity and active participation in the struggle for human dignity. There is hope for transforming our nation and the world, and you can be part of the solution.
STARTING SEPTEMBER 1, 2022