First Wednesdays This Fall

This fall you have a new opportunity to learn with Christians from throughout Marin. On the first Wednesdays of September through December, St. Paul’s will be hosting three classes, happening simultaneously. You choose one of the three classes, enjoy learning, and then enjoy hospitality with people taking the other classes.

Each of the three classes will be team taught. One teacher will be from St. Paul’s, the other teacher from another church. The three classes are:

• Who Is My Neighbor? Rod Miles, the chief pastor of Grace Marin, and I will be leading prayerful reflections on demographic information on the 250,000 souls of Marin County.

• The Necessary Wisdom of Medieval Women. Parishioner Meg Gorman and the Rev. Carol Luther, Vicar of St. Aidan’s, Bolinas, will be guiding readings of remarkably powerful texts with deep insights for today.

• What is Christian Justice? Parishioner Jacob Moody and the Rev. Kirsten Snow-Spalding, Rector of Nativity, San Rafael, will be exploring the nature of Christian Justice and its call to action.

The classes are from 7pm to 8:30pm on the first Wednesdays of September, October, November and December. Participants are invited to come at 6:30pm for Evening Prayer in the church. You then go to the class that you’ve chosen for learning and discussion. At 8:30pm, participants from all three classes are invited to convene in Duncan Hall for hospitality.

Each class costs $40. This is to cover the cost of hospitality and to start a lending library of books that support the material in each of the three classes. Here is the link to the page on Eventbrite where you can sign up.

Two weeks from today, on Saturday, August 25th at 9am there’s a free Open House where you can find out more about each class and decide which one you would like to take. Kirsten and Jacob have already created a short video presenting their class on Christian Justice.

Mailers and emails have already gone out to all the Christian churches of Marin and there have been notifications in DioBytes, the Dioceses weekly email blast. We hope that, in a small way, these first Wednesday evenings this fall realize Jesus’ prayer in the gospel of John that we all may be one.

Feel free to contact Judy Rowcliffe or me if you have any questions, and be sure and save the first Wednesday evenings of the month throughout the fall for these intriguing and edifying classes.