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Adult Faith Formation

Seekers Book Club 

Our church is committed to growing spiritually and deepening our discipleship. 

Seekers Book Club – meets Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in the Atrium.  Everyone is welcome, even if you haven’t read the book.  For more information, contact Barbara Bendlin by using the contact form below.

Seekers alternate between social justice books and spiritual/religious books. To learn and grow spiritually in Christian spirituality and wholeness with God through the study and discussion of works of religious and social authors. We SEEK knowledge of God and a life centered in that God and the things important to God. We SEEK a world of justice, kindness and compassion by the active practice of our faith.

Some previously read books:

  • "If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus" by Philip Gulley
  • “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching Plants” and “The Service Berry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World,” both by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson
  • “Christianity After Religion” by Diana Butler Bass
  • “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond
  • View the full list here.

Seekers Book Club

 

Meets Thursdays @ 4p.m.

Currently reading:

How to Know a Person: by David Brooks

 

Church of the Wild

Church of the Wild is an outdoor service where participants listen for God’s voice in nature.  Each service includes prayer, nature-based poetry, contemporary readings, singing, and most importantly, a 20-minute solo meditative walk to observe and be attentive to the Sacred in the natural world.  

The services are lay-led and meet in local parks six times yearly: Spring Equinox in March, wildflower bloom in May, Summer Solstice in June, prairie bloom in August, Fall Equinox in September, and Winter Solstice in December.  Services are held in all types of weather except thunderstorms or ice storms.  Anyone wanting to experience God through the natural world is welcome to attend.

For more information on this or any other Adult Faith Formation offering, contact Barbara Bendlin by using the Contact Form below.

Adult Seminars

We have adult seminars once or twice per year on subjects that are of current interest to our church.  Recently, we invited a speaker to talk about “The Singular They”. 

Contact

For questions about Church of the Wild or Seekers Book Club, use the contact form below:

Library

The Mary Hunt Justice and Peace Library has books available to check out in the church office.