Join us after church in the library at 12:15 pm for DVDs and discussion. Bring a snack or nosh on some of the leftover goodies from coffee hour as we watch a DVD segment on some aspect of what it means to be a Christian in the twenty-first century and discuss what we have seen and how it applies to our lives. Past studies include Faith and American Politics: Liberty and Justice for All,  Saving Jesus , Countering Pharoah’s Production-Consumption Society Today, Living the Questions , Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth and Bill Moyers’ interviews with Huston Smith on religions of the world: The Wisdom of Faith .

Digging Deeper Jan. 15 – March 25: What Does a Progressive Christian Believe? A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious by Delwin Brown

Jan. 15: Chapter 1: What Progressive Christianity is Not

Jan. 22: Chapter 2: Bible: Negotiating the Heritage

Jan. 29: Chapter 3: Christ: Overturning the Categories

Feb. 19: Chapter 4: God: Exploring the Depth

Mar. 11: Chapter 5: Humanity: Continuing the Creation

Mar. 18: Chapter 6: Sin: Failing and Hiding

Mar. 25: Chapter 7: Salvation: Seeking and Finding

April 22: Chapter 8: Church: Serving and Being Served

April 29: Epilogue: Rightly Mixing Religion with Politics

May 13: Tex Sample: “Brother Joe and the Blood” Romans 8: 31-39. Tex suggests that the idea of Christ’s substitutionary atonement (“Jesus died for our sins”) is not the most compelling view of the church or the one most faithful to the New Testament.

 May 20: Tex Sample: “Bull Dog” Acts 2: 1-13. Tex describes a bonding experience at an athletic event. How is this like the experience of Pentecost? How does the church create bonds in us through the power of gathering?

(Please note that the first Sunday of each month there will be no Digging Deeper Discussion. That day is reserved for the 2:00 pm, monthly CUF worship service at the Dirigo Pines memory loss unit, The Arbor.)  No Digging Deeper discussions in the summer.