More Light Sunday in the Adult Forum

The Adult Forum is proud to host our More Light group. Come celebrate More Light Sunday with the newly formed More Light subcommittee here at First Presbyterian. You’ll have a chance to meet us, ask questions, and, most importantly, help us start to figure out how we can best serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families and friends both in the congregation and in the community at large. We need your help to get off to a good start. We need your help to figure out where to start.

It'll also be an opportunity for you to find out just what it means to be a More Light Presbyterian and to hear a report on the fate of the resolution at the 221st General Assembly in Detroit to amend the Book of Order to allow ministers to marry same-sex couples. We'll gather at 9:45, downstairs in Martin Hall. Please join us.

Living the Questions 2.0 Continues

We going through the Living the Questions series. This is a good introduction to progressive Christianity, and a great venue for newcomers to find out more about who we are and meet others. All are welcome. Loving childcare is provided.

Living the Question 2.0 continues

This coming Sunday, June 15th, we'll continue our discussion over the Living the Questions 2.0 series. It's about what "progressive Christianity" means, and what it means to us. This is an interesting and popular video series in the general tradition of liberal theology. Please join us.

Living the Questions2 -- An Invitation

This summer we'll re-visit the Living the Questions2 video series, shown in the Adult Forum in 2009. The series is an excellent introduction to progressive Christianity. Exemplifying the spirit of the series, Jack Spong wrote:

"....I think certainty is a vice in religion. I really think that we ought to rid ourselves of it. So, I would constantly want to hold this wrestling, this uncomfortableness, I do not have it together, we are struggling in this together, as the proper image of the Christian faith. We walk into the mystery of God. We never arrive. And if we think we arrive we become an idolater.”

and from the series literature:

"Relying solely on doctrines and dogma passed on from others has seldom been a satisfying exercise for those longing for something deeper spiritually or thought-provoking theologically. To not ask questions is tantamount to forfeiting one’s own spiritual birthright and allowing other people’s experience of the divine to define your experience."

Please join us. You'll be warmly welcome.