Adults

Currently Studying the Eight Points of Progressive Christianity

Adult Forum participants are studying the Eight Points of Progressive Christianity on Sunday mornings at 9 AM.  Discussions include sharing thoughts and real life situations relating to each point.  Join us in the rooms off the Manomin Street entry for these spirit-growing session at 9 AM.

Adult Forum meets at 9 AM on Sundays throughout the year, except in the summer.  These insightful and relevant sessions focus on many modern day topics and use diverse resources.  Anyone high school age or older is welcome to attend in the Parent’s Room, near the Manomin Street entry.  Highlights of what the group has read (or watched) and discussed in recent years include:

• Waking Up White by Debbie Irving.  Irving describes her mid-life realization of her white privilege. She revisits her own transformation and efforts to the unfair racial, cultural, and systemic ramifications of privilege.
• The TPT documentary OutNorth, the history of LGBTQI+ people and advocacy in Minnesota.
• The Listen Up!” Bible Study Series has encouraged participants to read and discuss many books of the Bible in a 21st Century context.  Below are a couple examples.
  • Ecclesiastes LISTEN UP! Bible Study
    Sometimes considered the most curmudgeonly and cynical of all the books of the Bible, Ecclesiastes is also praised for telling it like it is. It addresses eternal problems that have always troubled human society: the problem of pain, the fruitlessness of overwork, the vanity of ambition, the age of anxiety, the fear of death and being forgotten. Ecclesiastes reminds us that these are not 21st century problems.
  • Job LISTEN UP! Bible Study
    Job is one of the most-read books in the Hebrew Bible. Often assigned in secondary school and college literature classes, it is for many people the only book of the Bible they have read. Why Job? Because the story of Job is a thrilling, challenging, and compelling account of the spiritual transformation that’s possible as we find ourselves in between the falling apart of the old world and the building up of the new.