Lives of Courage & Faith Lenten Series

The times are difficult.   They call for courage and faith. – Thomas Merton

Lives of Faith and Courage is a series where we will learn about five very different, inspiring and faithful individuals and learn how they respond (or have responded) to various world challenges with amazing vision, imagination and action.   Some of these individuals are still alive, others have died.   Some of these individuals are well-known, others are not.

The format of each session will involve a presentation and a discussion.   We will end with a brief time of worship and prayer in the form of Compline.   All are welcome – please invite friends and neighbors who might be interested!

The schedule for our Lenten evenings will be:

• Simple dinner in the Undercroft, 5:15 – 6 pm
• Program in the Meeting Room, 6-7pm
• Compline, 7-7:15pm

Please come for any or all parts of the evening.

• Tuesday, March 1, Joanna Macy, presented by Jean Smith. Joanna Macy writes, The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to destroying the world, we’ve actually been on the way for quite a while. It is that we are beginning to wake up, as from a millennia long sleep, to a whole new relationship to our world, to ourselves, and to each other. Author, Buddhist scholar, and environmental activist, Johanna Macy is an acclaimed teacher. It is her goal to help us identify our curiosity, energy, and strength that together we may live out the active hope our world needs now.