This coming Sunday we will offer three Adult Educational Offerings.
In the class on Genesis we, along with Mickey, will leave the worldview-forming narratives of pre-history behind and enter the worldview forming stories of the patriarchs, the family history we all share.
The Wired Word will take up the case of Wisconsin and the fight to balance the budget by streamlining the process by eliminating many of the collective bargaining rights of public employees. If we were Methodist that might be less of an issue since the Methodist Social Creed (sometimes read in services) states, in part,
“We believe in the right and duty of persons to work for the glory of God and the good of themselves and others and in the protection of their welfare in so doing; in the rights to property as a trust from God, collective bargaining, and responsible consumption; and in the elimination of economic and social distress” (Methodist Church Social Creed, retrieved from http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?mid=1836 emphasis added).As Presbyterians we don’t have any quite so explicit statement so basically, we will discuss how to implement God’s uncompromising demand that we “shall not render an unjust judgment; [we] shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great” (Leviticus 19:15).
Finally David Mullen will begin an 8 week series on Modern Spiritual Masters. Each week we will cover one spiritual giant about whom you should know. This week it will be Etty Hillesum a young Dutch Jewish woman, died in Auschwitz at the age of 29 In the publication of her diaries 40 years later, An Interrupted Life, the world described a remarkable voice that drew on Scripture, literature and Christian sources.
See you Sunday,
Bill
