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Session	Course Outline and Links to the 10 Session Pages  Blue links below indicate Session Pages are posted. Material and notes are added steadily through the course.
1 Jan 16	Introduction Evening. Audio Selection from Tapestry with Mary Jo Leddy
2 Jan 23	"Welcoming the Stranger - a Hewbrew Bible Perspective' - Rabbi Oren Steinitz, Guest Speaker
3 Jan 30	"A Calgary Multi-Cultureal Classroom" - Laura Duker, Guest Speaker
4 Feb 6	“The Empire of the Self” (34-55) Jock
5 Feb 13	“The Concentrated Life” (56-72) Wayne
Feb 20	Family Day Weekend Break
6 Feb 27	“Perspective from Visits to Central America” Heather and Pam
7 Mar 5	“The God of Small Neighbourhoods” (73-94) Jock and “Systems Without a Face” (95-107) Wayne
8 Mar 12	“Refugee Family Experience”
9 Mar 19	“The In-Between Christ” (108-129) Jock and “Samaritan Church” (130-139) Wayne
10 Mar 26	“A Challenge to St. David’s” Janice and Wayne
	and as a Special Event at St David's, Mary Jo herself will visit on the Weekend of April 20
Apr 20	Friday Evening Presentation.
Apr 21	Saturday, presentations and workshop/seminar sessions to help participants relate to refugee and immigrant organizations in Calgary
Apr 22	Sunday, preaching the sermon at St. David's worship service.

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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.