St. Bart’s Adult Education Series
2023 Programs
Adult Education programming for this school year will focus on challenging conversations about our lives as Christians as we engage with the world.
Spring/Summer 2023
Bible Study continues with Rev. Amanda, Wednesday mornings at 9 AM at St. Bart's.
Spring/Summer 2023
As a part of parish-wide planning for collaboration and outreach Adult Education will take the lead in collaborating on a program to increase community outreach. Suggestions from the parish-wide meetings so far include an event focused on New Mainers and/or Indigenous People in the Dawnland. The Adult Education Committee is open to suggestions for programs during Spring/Summer 2023, especially those that focus on themes of inclusion and creation. Please contact Steve Hahn or a member of the committee, or the Vestry Liaison Deborah Wathen-Finn or Rev. Amanda with suggestions for additional one-time or seasonal programs.
Adult Education Committee Chair
Stephen Hahn
Email: hahns@wpunj.edu
2022-2023 Program History
Seminar offering on Saturday afternoon, May 13th
Courage to Thrive : Practical Steps You Can Start Today to Find Meaning, Joy, and Hope
In conjunction with the Pastoral Care Committee, we invited Rev. Dr. Flanagan to share his personal journey that led him to find meaning, joy, and hope. His journey has woven together the support of mental health professionals with his paths of faith. The seminar was well attended.
Lent 2023 What's an Episcopalian?
Ever wondered what an "Episcopalian" really is? This program looked at some of the bigger themes of what defines "Episcopalian" in both the larger context and for us here at St. Bart's with such topics as "'Anglican vs. Episcopalian' what's the difference?" "What do Episcopalians believe and who decides?" and "What does all of this mean for me?" Classes were shepherded by Rev. Amanda, our intern, Mary Curlew, and lay leader, Elizabeth Ring -- with a few special guest speakers, including Bishop Thomas Brown!
Fall 2022: Participation in internal and external book discussion group on The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism .
Advent Season : “Parables, Poems, and Persons: What is the value of a life?”
Led by Steve Hahn, readings for the first session included Luke 12.35-47 and 15.11-32 and the poems “The Prodigal Son Goes Over Notes for his Memoirs” by Rhina P. Espaillat and “Poem Ending with Three Lines of Wordsworth’s” by Gail Mazur.
Lent 2022
During the Season of Lent, a four-week session in March was led by Rob Neal based on audio recordings by Clarence Jordan of his lectures Power from Parables. Clarence Jordan was the founder of Koinonia Farms in Americus, GA, in the early 1940s. Koinonia continues to exist today and is a multi-racial, non-violent Christian community.
Epiphany 2022
During the season of Epiphany 2022, the Adult Education Committee presented four Sunday afternoon ZOOM sessions on the topic Something to Follow: Modern Poets and the Epiphany.
The discussions focused on prior readings of poems by modern poets and their response to the very simple biblical Epiphany narratives (Matt. 2.1-12 and 2.8-20) and a variety of cultural traditions that coalesce around the themes of the journey toward faith, the experience of precarious promise, and ongoing experience of mortality and transcendence implicit in those stories and traditions.
2023 Programs
Adult Education programming for this school year will focus on challenging conversations about our lives as Christians as we engage with the world.
Spring/Summer 2023
Bible Study continues with Rev. Amanda, Wednesday mornings at 9 AM at St. Bart's.
Spring/Summer 2023
As a part of parish-wide planning for collaboration and outreach Adult Education will take the lead in collaborating on a program to increase community outreach. Suggestions from the parish-wide meetings so far include an event focused on New Mainers and/or Indigenous People in the Dawnland. The Adult Education Committee is open to suggestions for programs during Spring/Summer 2023, especially those that focus on themes of inclusion and creation. Please contact Steve Hahn or a member of the committee, or the Vestry Liaison Deborah Wathen-Finn or Rev. Amanda with suggestions for additional one-time or seasonal programs.
Adult Education Committee Chair
Stephen Hahn
Email: hahns@wpunj.edu
2022-2023 Program History
Seminar offering on Saturday afternoon, May 13th
Courage to Thrive : Practical Steps You Can Start Today to Find Meaning, Joy, and Hope
In conjunction with the Pastoral Care Committee, we invited Rev. Dr. Flanagan to share his personal journey that led him to find meaning, joy, and hope. His journey has woven together the support of mental health professionals with his paths of faith. The seminar was well attended.
Lent 2023 What's an Episcopalian?
Ever wondered what an "Episcopalian" really is? This program looked at some of the bigger themes of what defines "Episcopalian" in both the larger context and for us here at St. Bart's with such topics as "'Anglican vs. Episcopalian' what's the difference?" "What do Episcopalians believe and who decides?" and "What does all of this mean for me?" Classes were shepherded by Rev. Amanda, our intern, Mary Curlew, and lay leader, Elizabeth Ring -- with a few special guest speakers, including Bishop Thomas Brown!
Fall 2022: Participation in internal and external book discussion group on The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism .
Advent Season : “Parables, Poems, and Persons: What is the value of a life?”
Led by Steve Hahn, readings for the first session included Luke 12.35-47 and 15.11-32 and the poems “The Prodigal Son Goes Over Notes for his Memoirs” by Rhina P. Espaillat and “Poem Ending with Three Lines of Wordsworth’s” by Gail Mazur.
Lent 2022
During the Season of Lent, a four-week session in March was led by Rob Neal based on audio recordings by Clarence Jordan of his lectures Power from Parables. Clarence Jordan was the founder of Koinonia Farms in Americus, GA, in the early 1940s. Koinonia continues to exist today and is a multi-racial, non-violent Christian community.
Epiphany 2022
During the season of Epiphany 2022, the Adult Education Committee presented four Sunday afternoon ZOOM sessions on the topic Something to Follow: Modern Poets and the Epiphany.
The discussions focused on prior readings of poems by modern poets and their response to the very simple biblical Epiphany narratives (Matt. 2.1-12 and 2.8-20) and a variety of cultural traditions that coalesce around the themes of the journey toward faith, the experience of precarious promise, and ongoing experience of mortality and transcendence implicit in those stories and traditions.
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