Adult Religious Education Opportunities
January 27, 2009
Each week we come together as a congregation for worship to explore religious and spiritual issues and to grow as individuals and as a community. Many members have asked about the possibility of forming small groups in order to deepen in spirit, nurture our souls and contribute to and shape the wider world for the greater good. The Unitarian Universalist Association has numerous resources available for adult religious education groups. These groups can focus on individual spiritual growth, theological questions, social justice issues or world religions. Some of the programs available include:
· Barbara Hamilton-Holway’s Spirit of Life program seeks to bring meaning, beauty, inclusivity and growth to Unitarian Universalist adults as they deepen their spiritual awareness and connections.
· Spirit in Practice was created to help Unitarian Universalists develop regular disciplines, or practices, of the spirit – practices that help them connect with the sacred ground of their being, however they understand it. Spirit in Practice affirms religious diversity while seeking unity in our communal quest for meaning and wholeness.
· Building Your Own Theology. This curriculum invites each person to write his or her spiritual odyssey and examines a structure for a liberal theological model, varieties of religious experience, human nature, ultimate reality, history, ethics and religious meaning.
· Owning Your Religious Past provides simple tools with which individuals may re-examine and retrieve positive aspects of their past religious experience as part of our continuing religious growth.
· Paganism 101 is an informative and participatory introduction to the contemporary Neo-Pagan movement.
Numerous other programs are available as well. There will be a display of various available programs in Eddy Hall during the first few weeks of February. If you are interested in a particular program, you can sign the interest sheet available with the program description. Signing up is not a commitment to participate at this time, but it will help us to gauge interest and decide which programs to offer.
We will also need group facilitators. If you are willing to consider being a facilitator, you can note that on the interest sheet. The programs all include instructions for facilitators, and we can schedule a facilitator training if there is interest.
Exploring religious truth, meaning and experience is central to our Unitarian Universalist faith. Adult religious education groups give us the opportunity to seek truth and meaning in a safe atmosphere.
~Don Laliberte, President
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