ADULT SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Susan Samuel and Tami Lepage are continuing their popular Monday Discipleship class over the summer with two one-day class meetings. If possible, you should read the books on your own prior to the class meeting for discussion. Please see the book descriptions and meeting details below.  No need to register.


Blessings,

Eileen M Brogan

  • Encounters with Merton, Henri Nouwen    

    Monday July 21 4:30 - 6pm

    Henri Nouwen explores Thomas Merton’s life and writings and unveils how the yearnings of the young intellectual matured into a life of contemplation. One spiritual leader’s inquiry into the development of another. Thomas Merton, the renowned monk, writer, and inspiration to millions of seekers. Nouwen explores themes of solitude, silence, and nonviolence, and investigates the exchange between Eastern and Western spirituality as discussed in Merton’s books.

  • Wholehearted Faith, Rachel Held Evans and Jeff Chu   

    Monday August 18 4:30 - 6pm

    At the time of her tragic death in 2019, Rachel was working on a new book about wholeheartedness. With the help of her close friend and author Jeff Chu, that work-in-progress, woven together with other unpublished writings, is now the foundation for this rich collection of essays that ask candid questions about the stories we’ve been told—and the stories we tell—about our faith, our selves, and our world.

    This book is for the doubter and the dreamer, the seeker and the sojourner, those who long for a sense of spiritual wholeness. Through theological reflection and personal recollection, Rachel wrestles with God’s grace and love in an imperfect world, looks unsparingly at what the Church is and does, and explores universal human questions about becoming and belonging.