Weekday Offerings

Brown Bag Bible Study with Fr Seitz:
St Paul’s Letter to the Colossians

This weekday Bible study will study Paul’s Letter to the Colossians. We will read the Letter week-by-week and study the message of the Apostle. To be considered more specifically: 1. What is the setting of the letter? 2. How did Paul write from prison? 3. Why does the letter not begin with a problem that Paul is addressing, but instead launches into a lofty discourse on the place of Christ in the heavenly realms, and only then focus on a problem in Colossae? 4. What is the problem and how does it relate to our own faith and living? 5. How is the Letter related to and different than other Letters of Paul? 6. Did Paul write the letter? And how were letters composed in his time? 7. How can a letter sent to one community be passed on to another? 8. Who are all the people Paul mentions at the close? 9. How does a word written to a specific community move forward in time to speak today?

Lectionary Bible Study (resumes January 20)

Join Dr. Abraham, professor of theology at Perkins School of Theology, as he offers a penetrating discussion of the lectionary readings for the coming Sunday. This class is an exercise in listening to and reflecting on Scripture as a means of God’s self-revelation and an accessible guide for how to live as followers of Jesus.

The Propers Class (resumes January 13)

To enhance your Sunday morning worship, join this group of parishioners as they study the Scripture lessons appointed by the lectionary for the coming Sunday. Hearing familiar lessons allows you to listen more carefully to the sermon and enter more deeply into the experience of worship. This class is lay-lead and all are welcome.

Do the Catholic Epistles Have Anything to Say to Anglicans? (resumes January 14)

The Catholic (or General) Epistles are those New Testament books whose intended audience is the whole Church instead of an individual or congregation. In this continuing morning Bible study we are working our way through I & II Peter. The format is in-depth and verse-by-verse. Bring your Bibles and your questions.

INClings (resumes January 14)

The INClings are a group of serious Christian readers who have a good time reading and discussing classic books mostly written by a group of Oxford dons in the 1930s through the 1950s who called themselves The Inklings (e.g. C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and their contemporaries Dorothy L. Sayers and T.S. Eliot). This spring, the INClings first will study Mr. Lewis's A Grief Observed and then his novel Till We Have Faces, both of which will be available at the Incarnation Bookstore.