Adult Education Classes
Throughout the year, we offer a variety of opportunities to growing faith and faithfulness. These classes usually meet on Sunday morning after worship (11:30 a.m.). We study topics as diverse as sexuality, peacemaking, economic justice, earth care, immigration, and inter-cultural/interfaith encounters.
Pre-pandemic topics will included
The PC(USA) study, Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah, a novel about race and identity
Professor Trible will lead a three-week study of the Prophet Jeremiah
Rick Ufford-Chase's new book Faithful Resistance: Gospel Visions for the Church in a Time of Empire;
Using technology and social media to stay connected in a fragmented world
Presentation by Mission Partner Herman Kumara of NAFSO in Sri Lanka
Spiritual Issues in the epidemic of gun violence
In recent years we have studied
Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration an Age of Colorblindness;
The Presbyterian Policy, Gun Violence and Gospel Values;
Jennifer Bird's book Permission Granted: Take the Bible into Your Own Hands;
The General Assembly's call to re-think our commitment to a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine and to explore Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Amy-Jill Levine's book The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
Special guests have included
Dr. Phyllis Trible, Union Theological Seminary, NY, author of Texts of Terror;
Dr. Jennifer Bird, University of Portland, author of Permission Granted;
Dr. Daniel Turk, PC(USA) Mission Partner with the Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar, developing safe drinking water, sustainable forestry and food security programs and doing environmental education with the Malagasy People
Dr. Robert Trawick, St. Thomas Aquinas University & Presbyterians for Middle East Peace
Hans Halundbeck, Hudson River Presbytery Prison Partnership