Adult Education – Fall I

Liturgy is literally the “work of the people”.  At St. Andrew, ALL people may take an active role in worship by serving as ushers, assisting ministers, lectors, and communion assistants.  Please join this ever-growing group of lay leaders who make our worship services meaningful for everyone. 

If you are new to this ministry, come and learn what and how to do things within your role.  If you are an experienced leader, please come and learn how things have changed and offer your Pro Tips to those who are diving in for the first time.

WomanSpirit Rising, a book written in 1992, has been called the classic anthology of feminist spirituality. It consists of a collection of essays about God and about women’s experience. Join us for this class in which we will read several essays and discuss different images for God, different ideas about God and different spiritual practices. This class is suitable for women and men. Each participant will be given a copy of the book.

Throughout history prophets have been known for speaking truth to power. From Moses to the Hebrew prophets and Jesus to the Christian prophets, Martin Luther and The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., prophets always have seen the dangers to society in ignoring the common good and spoken against it. But it would be a mistake to view any of these prophets as voices crying in the wilderness. In the second edition of his book, The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann writes that the Hebrew prophets, far from being loners, were in fact representatives of social constituencies. Viewed in this light, the ancient prophets may not be so different from the prophets of today. In this class we will focus on the Hebrew prophets, especially Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. How did they preach truth to power? Were they successful? What can we learn from them as we face our critical task of proclaiming truth today?

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