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  • Shared Stories and Rival Tellings

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 9/11/2023 - 10/30/2023

      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

    • Days: M

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central United Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: Yossi Liebowitz

    • If you remember the story of the Three Blind Men and how they tried to describe an elephant, you might understand the gist of this course. Rival tellings based on shared stories from the biblical tradition is an exciting exploration of how three Great Western traditions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam understand narratives in different ways. All of us have lenses through which we understand those narratives. As we live in divisive times, this exploration will be a valued way of walking a mile in another's intellectual moccasins. Based in part on excerpts from a book by Robert Gregg. 

       

 

  • What Is Happening in American (i.e. US) Protestantism?

  • This class is in session. Contact the office for more information.

    • Fee: $42.00

    • Dates: 9/14/2023 - 11/2/2023

      Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

    • Days: Th

    • Sessions: 8

    • Building: Central United Methodist Church

      Room: Upper Room

    • Instructor: James Ellis Griffeth

    • Challenges, disagreements and conflicts have beset Protestantism in the US in the past few years. Most of the new happenings are related to challenges, disagreements and conflicts over many decades. This course will examine the happenings of today within the context of related happenings in the past. Students in the class will discover that two classic theological conflicts about the interpretation of scripture are just beneath the surface of the current happenings. The class presentations will be primarily lecture illustrated with PowerPoint slides. There will be opportunities for questions. The class will receive the link to a Google Drive that will contain the slides and several articles for reading.

 

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