School for Christian Growth

Becoming Church: A Bible Study of the New Testament

Leader:  Marjory Bankson
When: Tuesdays Oct. 21-Nov. 25 at 7-8:30pm
Where: On Zoom

This six-week zoom class is a survey of the New Testament in chronological order (meaning we start with Paul and not the Gospels). Our focus will be on how the understanding of church developed in the first and second centuries and do some comparing with our current experience of being church together. You can expect good content and community-building during class and reading assignments each week.

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CHRIST IN THE RUBBLE: A Book Study

Leader: Paul Holmes
When:  Tuesdays Oct.…

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Hebrew Prophets: How They Speak to Us Today

Leader: David Lloyd
When: Sept 2 – Oct. 27 at 7-8:30pm
Where: On Zoom
Prophets arise during troubled times when people have great anxiety about the
trends in their national politics, their economy, their culture, and their religion.
We’ll discuss what current trends are troubling us and read excerpts from these
prophets to discern whether God is speaking to us through these prophets’ words.
Participants can use their own bibles. This course satisfies the requirements for a
class in the Hebrew Scriptures.

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The following two consecutive classes will explore practices of meditation
and deepen your experience of Divine Awareness:

Mindfulness Anytime, Anywhere
Leader: Donna Franklin
When: Sept 2, 9, 16 at 7-8:30pm Bring your own dinner at 6:15pm.…

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How Did Seekers and other CoS churches Begin?

What were the founding values?
Join this 3-week zoom class

July 8, 15 and 22 (7-8:30pm)

to READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor

Leaders:  Marta Brenden (newcomer with questions) & Fern Edwards (who experienced those days)
This book put Church of the Savior on the map in 1963.  As an ecumenical church, open to all in a segregated city, the book describes a level of commitment that felt to some like a monastic order.  Others saw it as radical and exclusive — but Call to Commitment brought inquiries from many people and several seminaries.…

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Summer Fun Book Group—”Twelve and One-Half Keys,” 6/17, 6/24 and 7/1

Led by Cynthia Dahlin

You are invited to an in-person School for Christian Growth class encouraging “summer reading”—fun, light, but leaving you with a feeling of shared joy. Edward Hays writes books in short parables, and I am asking you to buy or borrow his “Twelve and One-Half Keys” and only read it in short bites, stopping to note how the parables make you feel, what you think the parables mean, and what you think the metaphors are. Believe it or not, his easy-reading books changed my view of the Gospels so much more than many years of seminary. …

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Matrix – A Book Study (Not that Matrix!)
Leader: Brenda Seat
Tuesdays: March 25-April 29, 2025 – In Person with simple meal at 6:30, class 7-8:30f pm

Matrix, by Lauren Groff, is a novel about the 12^th century mystic and poet, Marie de France, who for political reasons was exiled to an English nunnery. It is a story of a woman coming to terms with the limited choices she was given in life, deepening her faith and empowering and leading the women of her community to become a beacon of light in a corrupt and unjust world. We will explore what it means to be resilient, faithful, cunning and ambitious in a world that does not value what women have to offer. …

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