Current Class:

“In the Kingdom”

Dates: Ongoing, first and third Tuesdays
Time: 7-8:30 pm MST
Location: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 100 Arroyo Pinon Drive, Sedona, Arizona
Facilitator: Alexandra Fraser
Class Notes: Robert Perry
To Phone in: 712-432-3100. 6-digit code:  673072
Cost: Love donation

Class Description:

This spring we are beginning a new round of classes aimed at mining, and applying, the spiritual wisdom of the historical Jesus. Each class will be based around a particular theme from the teachings of Jesus, illustrated by a collection of sayings drawn from the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, and our old friend the Sayings Gospel Q. The various classes will in turn add up to an overall picture of what it means to live in “the kingdom.”

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2010 Activities

Workshops:

Jesus’ New World In Parables
Bernard Brandon Scott
April 23-24, 2010

Class:

The Sayings Gospel Q Class
Robert Perry

The Sayings Gospel Q is a hypothetical gospel, believed by most scholars to be the source of teachings in both Matthew and Luke. Q is a gospel from before the gospels, a window onto an older view of Jesus, a view that might just be the most accurate account that we have. Many prominent New Testament scholars believe that Q’s teachings are the most reliable record of what Jesus actually said.

We will begin looking at the story of Q — what led to its discovery and why scholars believe that it existed. Then we will spend the remaining classes focusing on what many scholars believe to have been its earliest layer of teachings. This is a collection of wisdom teachings that, at different times, have moved history. These are the teachings immortalized in Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount, and which, through it, have been the inspiration for such great figures as St. Francis, Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Through it all, we will be asking a single key question: How can we incorporate these radical teachings into our own lives?

2009 Activities

Workshops:

Jesus Unfiltered
Stephen Patterson
May 1-2, 2009