We are currently offering two adult classes via Zoom:

Psalms for Lent

Facilitated by David Elton

As the writers of the gospels, letters and the Revelation to John of the New Testament connected God’s work in Jesus to God’s work throughout the history of Israel in the scriptures, no book of the Old Testament is quoted as much as the Book of Psalms (68 times). Each Sunday in Lent we will read and discuss one or two psalms whose verses made it into the New Testament. We will also look at the New Testament passage in which they’re found. Each of these psalms will connect to themes of the church’s season of Lent.

 The Sabbath

Facilitated by Kara Windler

The Sabbath, by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Hoshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication in 1951—and has been read by thousands of people of many faiths seeking meaning in modern life. In this brief yet profound meditation on the meaning of the Seventh Day, Heschel introduced the enormously influential idea of an "architecture of holiness" that appears not in space but in time. Judaism, he argues, is the religion of time: it finds meaning not in space and the material things that fill it but in time and the eternity that imbues it, so that "the Sabbaths are our great cathedrals."

Reading Schedule:

2/21 Prologue & Chapter 1

2/28 Chapter 2

3/7 Chapter 3

3/14 Chapter 4

3/21 Chapter 5 & 6

4/11 Chapter 7

4/18  Guest Speaker

4/25 Chapter 8

5/2 Chapter 9

5/16 Chapter10 & Epilogue