Adult Sunday School Classes
On the Canterbury Trail
Location: Great Hall Dining Room
An Introduction to the Christian Faith and the Anglican Tradition. This class serves as preparation for all adults who wish to be baptized and/or confirmed. More info
Leaders: Fr. Thomas Kincaid (email) and Fr. Matthew Olver (email)
“I Believe in One God”
Location: Memorial Chapel
A slow and careful look at the Nicene Creed. Where did the creeds come from? What issues did they address? How are they rooted in the biblical witness? What do they mean as we recite them today?
Leader: The Rev. Canon Dr. Christopher Seitz (email)
Let Go of Your Principles and Follow Christ
Location: Choir Room
A study of the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer — a German pastor in the ’30s was a profound theologian, a pastor, a seminary leader, a pacifist and was active in the plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. For such, he was hanged in 1945 at the age of 39 just five days before the Allies liberated Germany. He is one of ten twentieth century Christian martyrs commemorated at Westminster Abbey. His works are models of Christ-like living, among them, The Cost of Discipleship, Life Together, and Letters and Papers from Prison.
We will discuss the cataclysmic gap between “American religion” and discipleship (or, “following Jesus Christ,” as Bonhoeffer puts it). Our American experience urges us to build Christless catacombs (we sometimes call them “our principles”) in which we take refuge from all that threatens us. To complicate matters, we adorn our Christless catacombs with God-language, Jesus- language and church-language, which makes them ever more deadly. These catacombs can be political, economic, religious, or racial. What are they? How do we rightly diagnose them on our way to faithful discipleship? Join us in this in-depth study of Christian discipleship.
Leader: David Krause (email)
The Meaning of Marriage
Location: Marmion Conference Room
Join psychologist Ben Albritton as you and your spouse explore the central issues in your marriage relationship. Tim Keller’s book, The Meaning of Mariage, will serve as a springboard as we discuss and see how to practically apply the Scripture’s wisdom to this important, sacramental relationship. For couples in all stages of marriage.
Leader: Ben Albritton
20s/30s Study of Gospel and Culture
Location: Welcome Center
Learning to Think as a Christian First: The question of ethics is a pressing one for our day. Many controversial issues swirl around within our culture: divorce, violence and war, homosexuality, abortion, and ethnic conflict — just to name a few. In this class, designed for our 20s and 30s, we will discuss how to think as a Christian on these and other important issues. Using Professor Richard Hays book The Moral Vision of the New Testament, we will focus on such issues as when the Bible disagrees with itself, what are the guiding images to use when thinking through ethical issues, and how have other great Christian minds have approached these issues. The class will be conversation based and will provide space to fellowship and meet fellow parishioners.
Leaders: Deacon Matthew Larsen (email) & Ryan Waller
For Parents of Teens
Location: Family Ministries Room
Families Living a Sabbath Life: It has become the standard greeting everywhere: I am so busy. Today, the model of a successful life finds us:
- more unavailable to family and friends
- unable to find time for the sunset (or to know it has set at all)
- whizzing through obligations without time for a single mindful breath
And so we miss the quiet that would give us wisdom, connections that would give us joy and a relationship with God that would transform us. Is it possible to find rest, renewal, delight and greater spiritual discipline, for ourselves and within our families, in the relentless busyness of modern life? This class will explore why the answer is “yes”, guided by scripture, appropriate resources and conversations with each other.
Leader: Cynthia Krause (email)
Biblical Survey
Location: Room 114 (across from Outreach office)
This class will be a year-long survey of the entire Bible from Genesis through Revelation within the perspective of how God works out His plan of redemption. Emphasis will be placed on main characters, historical environments, time sequences, and major themes and doctrines. A course notebook will be prepared to assist those attending and will be available for a modest fee of $5.
Leader: Robert Perkins