This year will be "The Year of the Word."
We will take our lead from this year's Christmas reading from John's Gospel: In the beginning was the Word. And each week we will explore more of the language that helps us to speak God's kingdom into being; more of the words that are the currency of Creation and New Creation.
So please plan to join us for a year of Godly conversations. And we will begin our adult ed conversations in 2012 with a series on Bart Ehrman's New York Times Best Seller:
"Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
(and why we don't know about them)."
Please feel free to read along with our congregation and contribute to the discussion on this blog.
The reading schedule can be found below, and each Sunday we will post a new set of discussion questions for the week that are open to anyone who would like to participate in the conversation.
Here is our reading schedule:
For Sunday, January 8th: Chapter 1 - A Historical Assault on Faith
For Sunday, January 15th: Chapter 2 - A World of Contradictions
For Sunday, January 29th: Chapter 3 - A Mass of Variant Views
For Sunday, February 12th: Chapter 4 - Who Wrote the Bible?
For Sunday, February 19th: Chapter 5 - Liar, Lunatic, or Lord? Finding the Historical Jesus
For Sunday, February 19th: Chapter 6 - How We Got the Bible
For Sunday, February 19th: Chapters 7 & 8 - Who Invented Christianity? Is Faith Possible?
When this book was first published in 2009, the Boston Globe review said that for more than a few folks, this book would be: "a grenade tossed into their tidy living rooms of religious faith."That is to say that this book offers a very fresh look and analysis of the scripture that grounds our faith tradition.
So join us for a lively conversation, in person on Sunday morning from 9:30am until 10:15am, or online at your convenience.
Onward!
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