2021 Adult Forum
The Adult Forum has been on hiatus since March 2020. We are restarting this weekly gathering in September 2021. Topics will include:
Topics in 2018 have included:
Topics in 2017 have included:
Below you can find audio from past forums. |
The Cappadocians
On Sundays in the fall of 2014, St. Gregory's adult forum took a close look at the Cappadocians: a group of friends and family whose work radically changed the course of Christian history. These people include the patron of our church, Gregory of Nyssa, his older brother Basil the Great, their older sister Macrina, and their good friend Gregory Naziansus. All of the classes were recorded, and you can listen to the lectures and conversation on the recordings below.
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The Letter to the Colossians
The Letter to the Colossians offers an early picture of a community coming to understand their identity as followers of Jesus, living under the social oppression of the Roman Empire. You can find out more about the challenges of the Christian life today from this ancient, but still relevant, document.
Beginning in November 2013, and continuing for the next nine months, St. Gregory's Adult Forum took a SLOW look at the New Testament Epistle to the Colossians. |
Listening for God's CallIn early 2016, we talked about what our vocations mean. Your calling or vocation is to be your true self, to mature into the person in whom God delights. Vocation, identity, gifts and ministry are all interconnected. Too often the church has talked to you about your “ministries,” whether in the church or outside it, without helping you to do the deeper work of discerning your vocation. Genuine vocation provides a path that strengthens the sense of identity and freedom of those who respond to God’s call.
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The Spirituality of Resistance
In the winter and spring of 2017, we spent several weeks reflecting on the political climate in our country and the ways in which we could faithfully, as followers of Jesus Christ, resist governmental actions that would "seek to corrupt and destroy the creatures of God." We very intentionally planted our conversation in spiritual practices that make more of us as a community and as individuals. We also looked at concrete ways that we might respond to injustice when it comes crashing into our daily experience.
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