The Adult Spiritual Education committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines, through Zoom, starting at 9 a.m. on First Day, July 7. We will discuss Mark 6:1-13: how one is received/perceived in one’s “hometown” (as different from how one is able to act and be seen outside of one’s hometown). Richard Rohr writes, “It takes a huge push, much self-doubt, and some degree of separation for people to find their own soul and their own destiny apart from what Mom and Dad always wanted them to be and do. To move beyond family-of-origin stuff, local church stuff, cultural stuff, flag-and-country stuff is a path that few of us follow positively and with integrity. The pull is just too great, and the loyal soldier fills us with appropriate guilt, shame, and self-doubt, which, as we said earlier, feels like the very voice of God.” We’ll discuss how people in Jesus’s hometown “took offense” at his teachings, and how he responded to this.

What does it mean to both love and grow beyond one’s “hometown”? (The facilitator will send the zoom link through the Newslist several days before our session on July 7).