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Adult Forum's 3-Sunday Series on Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

3/11/2017

 
For the last three Sundays participants in Adult Forum have discussed Karen Armstrong's book, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths. The discussions were led by Charlotte. Here is her summary of the three-part series:

Jerusalem is a wonderful historically written book by Armstrong.  I had read it about 10 years ago and even took it on my Kindle when I visited Jerusalem in 2014.  When I volunteered for Adult Forum this year I wanted to present the book with discussions around sacred grounds and the Divine.  Jerusalem area was considered touched by Gods even in the Early Bronze Age up through the occupation by Rome and the birth of the Early Christian Church.  How much this was Divine and/or human involvement was an interesting question which I had hoped to leave in class participants minds.   Armstrong's book has many aspects of history and theology that are worthy of exploring in more depth around the development and reconstruction of Jerusalem. I would recommend this book for any serious read! Hopefully I was able in a small part to show some of her scholarly work and encourage further readings on Jerusalem.  

Thank you to Charlotte for facilitating these lessons.

"Letter From Birmingham Jail" Discussion, February 2017

3/2/2017

 
From Barbara:

On Sunday evening, February 26, a group of parishioners got together to study and discuss Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail. The background of the situation in our country at the time was our starting point. In 1954, the Supreme Court had called for the racial integration of public schools. However, by 1963 (100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation), not much progress had been made. In his letter, Dr. King explained his reasoning and justification for promoting nonviolent direct action. This led to a discussion of the relevance of his ideas to the current situation across our country.

Stay tuned for discussion opportunities on other relevant topics.

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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner 2017

3/1/2017

 
Our annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake dinner was held last night to celebrate the day before Lent begins. The men of the church made bacon, sausage and pancakes, served with a lot of syrup.

The children helped Kathryn burn last year's palm leaves in preparation for the Ashe Wednesday service.

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St. James Episcopal Church
806 College Avenue, SW
Lenoir, NC 28645
828-754-3712

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8:00am - Holy Eucharist without music
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10:30am - Holy Eucharist with music


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