EVENT INFORMATION
"The Universal Christ" - A Faith Book Study
EQUIP EVENT
Tuesdays Beginning January 14th | 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Aldersgate UMC (Church Library)
Join Pastor Keary Kincannon for an 8-week study of the New York Times Best Seller "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr. This event is sponsored by Aldersgate UMC and Ventures in Community.
Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, "The Universal Christ" is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
The class will meet weekly for 8 weeks beginning Tuesday, January 14th, at Aldersgate UMC (1301 Collingwood Rd) in the Church Library.
CLICK HERE to sign up to be a part of the book study. Participants are asked to please obtain a copy of the book and read the first chapter before the first class.
For more information, please contact Pastor Keary Kincannon at KKincannon@Aldersgate.net.
“Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates
In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.
Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.
Join Pastor Keary Kincannon for an 8-week study of the New York Times Best Seller "The Universal Christ" by Richard Rohr. This event is sponsored by Aldersgate UMC and Ventures in Community.
Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, "The Universal Christ" is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.
The class will meet weekly for 8 weeks beginning Tuesday, January 14th, at Aldersgate UMC (1301 Collingwood Rd) in the Church Library.
CLICK HERE to sign up to be a part of the book study. Participants are asked to please obtain a copy of the book and read the first chapter before the first class.
For more information, please contact Pastor Keary Kincannon at KKincannon@Aldersgate.net.
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“Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates
In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center.
Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet.