{"id":8240,"date":"2019-11-16T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=8240"},"modified":"2019-11-16T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T15:44:43","slug":"adult-religious-education-17-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2019\/11\/16\/adult-religious-education-17-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Religious Education \u2014 17 November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewUUChalice.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8242\" src=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewUUChalice-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewUUChalice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewUUChalice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/NewUUChalice.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Sunday (17 November 2019) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education classes.\u00a0 For this Sunday, you have choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The New UU &#8211;Bennett Upton, Facilitator<br \/>\n<\/strong>New and not-so-new Unitarian Universalists will benefit from this comprehensive introduction to our faith tradition and our congregation. Hear stories from our history, and learn more about our covenantal Living Tradition in the here and now.\u00a0 For this Sunday &#8212; Session 2 &#8211;&#8220;Where Do We Come From?\u00a0 Unitarian Universalist Roots.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Understanding the Bible &#8212; Susan Caldwell, Facilitator<\/strong><br \/>\nCenturies ago, those we consider our Unitarian and Universalist forebears read the Hebrew and Christian scriptures for themselves and found there markedly different messages from those of the established Church. Several years ago, the Rev. Megan Dalby-Jones said in our pulpit &#8220;If you want to know who the Unitarian Universalists are, look at the history of the early Christian church, follow the heretics all the way down, and you find us.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed, we are proud to teach our children the words &#8220;heresy&#8221; and &#8220;heretic,&#8221; in a positive light, as they come from the Greek &#8220;hairetikos,&#8221; meaning &#8220;to choose.&#8221;\u00a0 However, we dishonor our history if we don&#8217;t continue to read the Bible for ourselves and to consider the meaning the stories might hold for us.\u00a0 To quote the Rev. Aaron White, &#8220;We take the Bible seriously, not literally.&#8221;\u00a0 We will be using a curriculum based on the book <em>Understanding the Bible<\/em> by former UUA President John Buehrens.\u00a0 I am happy to order copies for anyone who would like one. However, our group time will largely be spent engaging directly with the scriptures themselves, and buying the book is optional for the course.\u00a0 If you have a Bible at home, bring it.\u00a0 We&#8217;re interested in looking at multiple versions and translations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Sunday (17 November 2019) at 9:15 AM for our adult religious education classes.\u00a0 For this Sunday, you have choices: The New UU &#8211;Bennett Upton, Facilitator New and not-so-new Unitarian Universalists will benefit from this comprehensive introduction to our faith tradition and our congregation. Hear stories from our history, and learn more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2019\/11\/16\/adult-religious-education-17-november-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adult Religious Education \u2014 17 November 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8240\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}