Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/12/2019 - 05/07/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location
St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church

Categories

• Adult Learning
• Worship

Story Telling and Preaching

Tuesday Evenings – 7:00 – 8:30 – 5 sessions

Place to be determined by how many people sign up.

March 12^th

• We will consider what it means to draw wisdom from world religions
• Why do we tell stories, and does it matter what kind of stories we tell?
• How do we identify the “good news” in sacred stories?
• We will explore story telling and drama in worship.

 

March 26^th, April 9^th, April 23^rd and May 7^th

• Over these four weeks, we will re-tell stories from the Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu traditions
• We will find ways these stories speak to us today
• We will explore writing from the perspective of the characters.
• We will play with the settings and explore the histories of these stories.
• We will identify teachings from these texts worth sharing.Please note, this 5-week experience could be the beginning of an on-going story telling practice. Who knows what we could do next! Fairy tales? Creation myths? Trickster stories? Come with open hearts and minds.