Monday Evening Book Study
Monday evenings 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. September 22 to December 1, 2008. Ten
sessions. Tatanga Mani Room, Main Floor, Saint David's United Church, Facilitators:
Jock Mc Tavish and Wayne Holst
Cost: $50.00 includes text, hospitality and contribution to increased ASDM
program development. Financial assistance or bursaries available. Books
may be purchased at the Church at a special publishers price if you cannot
attend the sessions and wish to follow on the net, or want to give the
text as a present. |
| Links to purchase this book: Amazon.ca, or Chapters.ca |
| Holy Manners The background on the phrase and why we have adopted it. The guidelines
for our studies. |
 Internet Discussion Group at Yahoo - the St. David's Forum. The archive is public and readable. Participation is by invitation. Click
HERE if you would like to join. You will then be able to post your own responses
to the list and will be emailed the notices and contributions of the others.
Click left to visit the archives of the site (read only). There are presently
88 persons. |
| Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. ...
Proverbs 23:12 (NIV) |
Group Facilitator. Wayne Holst EMAIL WAYNE
I spent most of my life thinking like a church professional, rather than as a regular congregational member. My training as a pastor always had me asking myself 'how can I apply this discovery, insight, new information to a regular church setting?'
Often, clergy have been hesitant to share the discoveries they have made through a 'critical' approach to the Bible with their parishoners because they wonder how laypeople might accept it. I have found that many thinking laity are professionals in their own fields of endeavour and understand a critical approach very readily. What they seek are ways of relating faith to daily living.
I am grateful for the journey I have been taking through ordained ministry
to teaching at the university and serving as a fellow layperson at St.David's
United Church. Here we find that questioning and honest expression of our
faith and doubt is readily accepted and supported. |
Group Facilitator. Jock McTavish
EMAIL JOCK
I am a student and a poet, a democrat and a techocrat, an eclectic eccentric. I grew up in a loving Baptist community, so in my heart I'm still a Bible loving evangelical. As I grew in learning I found a new home in the United Church whose tolerance embraces the broadest range of Christian understanding. I most enjoy the illumination of our ancient traditions by modern scholarship. For they show in clear novel ways that the perspectives of the Special Ones were seldom the understandings of those that followed. They show all knowledge to be in relationship .
There seems a lack of understanding in our secular world for religious practices. The reasons why I still gladly - even necessarily - attend church are difficult to voice to those unfamiliar with church, or those injured by church. Elliott got it right. We find our way back to the place we started from. But with new understanding. |
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