{"id":8337,"date":"2020-01-03T20:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T02:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2020-01-03T20:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T02:36:49","slug":"adult-religious-education-5-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2020\/01\/03\/adult-religious-education-5-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Religious Education \u2014 5 January 2020"},"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 (5 January 2020) 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 \u00a0This Sunday &#8212; Session 1 &#8212; &#8220;Theology and Worship&#8221; &#8212; We begin with an introduction to each other and to Unitarian Universalism.\u00a0 We will explore Unitarian Universalism&#8217;s process-oriented approach to religion as well as some basic theological understandings shared by most Unitarian Universalists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Understanding the Bible &#8212; Susan Caldwell, Facilitator<\/strong><br \/>\nUnderstanding the Bible provides an opportunity to engage with the scriptures and read them &#8220;against the grain.&#8221;\u00a0 As our very tradition was born because our forebears took the initiative to do exactly that, often at the risk of their reputations and even their lives, it&#8217;s only right that we take on for ourselves the right and privilege of doing so.\u00a0 This week &#8212; &#8220;Setting the Scene for Jesus:\u00a0 An Introduction to the Christian Scriptures&#8221; &#8212; Our Unitarian and Universalist forebears read the scriptures for themselves and arrived at interpretations of their own, sometimes at risk to their freedom or their very lives.\u00a0 With the stakes not nearly so high in our own lives, it seems only right that we honor them as we claim the Hebrew and Christian scriptures that are also part of our own religious heritage.\u00a0 We begin an exploration of the life and teachings of the man Jesus and the religious and political backdrop against which he came on the scene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Sunday (5 January 2020) 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\/2020\/01\/03\/adult-religious-education-5-january-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adult Religious Education \u2014 5 January 2020&#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-8337","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\/8337","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=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8339,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions\/8339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}