CHILDREN’S Religious Education

Children's RE is held during the regular service times. The children usually begin in the sanctuary for the opening of the service, and leave with the RE instructor after the minister presents a children's story. If there is no children's story, we will go directly to the lower level where children's RE is held. We currently have a small group of 6-13 year-olds attending regularly.

Childrens RE is not held during school breaks, major holidays or during summer. New children are always welcome. Children are also welcome to sit with their adult family members during the service.

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ADULT Religious Education

On alternate Sundays we meet at 10 AM to discuss topics relating religious and ethical issues to current events and considering ideas that contribute to the spirit and meaning of our group.

Adult Re is doing a series entitled "Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam taught by Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University.  Lectures are as follows:

01-24    A Way into the Mystic Ways of the West & Family Resemblances and Differences
02-07    The Biblical Roots of Western Mysticism & Mysticism in Early Judaism
02-21    Merkabah Mysticism & The Hasidim of Medieval Germany
03-07    The Beginnings of Kabbalah & Mature Kabbalah-Zohar
03-21    Isaac Luria and Safed Sprituality & Sabbatai Zevi and Messianic Mysticism
04-04    The Ba'al Shem Tov and the New Hasidism & Mysticism in Contemporary Judaism
04-18    Mystical Elements in the New Testament & Gnostic Christianity
05-02    The Spirituality of the Desert & Shaping Christian Mysticism in the East
05-16    Eastern Mons and the Hesychastic Tradition & The Mysticism of Western Monasticism
05-30    Medieval Female Mystics & Mendicants as Mystics
06-13    English Mystics of the 14th Century & 15th and 16th Century Spanish Mystics
06-27    Mysticism among Protestant Reformers & Mystical Expressions in Protestantism
07-11    20th Century Mystics & Muhammad the Prophet as Mystic
07-25    The Housse of Islam & The Mystical Sect--Shi'a
08-08    The Appearance of Sufism & Early Sufi Masters
08-22    The Limits of Mysticism--Al Ghazzali & Two Masters, Two Streams
09-05    Sufism in 12th-14th Centruy North Afica & Sufi Saints of Persia and India
09-19    The Continuing Sufi Tradition & Mysticism in the West Today