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Faith and Family
Every Sunday in the Church Lounge
Faith and Family is a weekly time of fellowship when we discuss the complex issues of raising families in the Christian tradition. We seek to strengthen our personal bonds within the church family and to cultivate new relationships through conversation and shared experiences.
This fall, Faith and Family will continue to explore the video series, Living the Questions 2, which is the expanded version of Living the Questions, the popular video and internet-based small group exploration of progressive Christianity featuring premier religious voices of our day. Living the Questions 2 is an open-minded alternative to studies that attempt to give participants all the answers; it instead strives to create an environment where participants can interact with one another in exploring what’s next for Christianity.
The Living the Questions topics for this Fall series are:
- Restoring Relationships
- The Prophetic Jesus
- Evil, Suffering, and a God of Love
- The Myth of Redemptive Violence
- Practicing Resurrection
- bunking Rapture
- Reclaiming the World
In addition to these classes, we will have:
A class on Conflict in Africa with discussion led by Chris Webster on the similarities and differences between religious conflict in Sudan and Burundi based on his experiences in both countries.
Three classes during Advent discussing the book The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan. The authors join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their previous book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the last two thousand years around this most well known of all stories to reveal the truth of what the gospels actually say. Using this text to guide discussion, Faith & Family will explore what these stories mean in the context of the first and twenty-first centuries.
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