Welcoming of the stranger. Inclusive of all people. Sharing the faith journey together. Informal and friendly Christian community..
Kanthi sent in a playlist of songs that she finds uplifting, here’s a link to most of the songs on her playlist.
How about emailing Darren (or messaging us on Facebook) your own playlist and we’ll add them every Tuesday?
Check out the playlist on Youtube here:
This series of videos comes from The Work From The People, we have a subscription to their catalogue and have made a number of the films available with discussion/reflection material for people to use in their faith formation. Please do not distribute the films beyond the GUC community, or upload to youtube or facebook.
What makes a good life? Wrestling with questions about how to live your life is part of being human. These films were created in accompaniment to the book project On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life. The authors are passionate about practicing their faith in the real world, for the good of all, and in response to God’s presence. They invite you to join them in exploring a way of life that is rooted in Christian wisdom while also moving toward the future, a way of life overflowing with God’s justice, mercy, and love.
Spiritual Practices, Life, Christian Practices, Faith formation, Justice, Mercy, God, money, discernment, friendship, study, living as community, loving our neighbour, doing justice, honouring the body.
If you would like access to this video series and the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright for the link and password for the videos.
Darren also has a copy of the book, On Our Way which the videos were created for. If you would like to borrow the book please contact Darren.
Session 01 – An Invitation with Dorothy C. Bass
Session 02 – Study with Matthew Myer Boulton
Session 03 – Discerning God’s Call with Jennifer Grant Haworth
Session 04 – Living as Community with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Session 05 – Friendship and Intimacy with Stephanie Paulsell Singing our Lives to God w/Tony Alonso
Session 06 – Care for Creation with Daniel Spencer
Session 07 – Making a Good Living with Douglas A. Hicks
Session 08 – Honouring the Body with Evelyn Parker
Session 09 – Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths with Scott Alexander
Session 10 – Peacemaking and Nonviolence with Mary Emily Briehl Duba
Session 11 – Doing Justice with Joyce Hollyday
Session 12 – Living in the Presence of God with Susan Briehl
This series of videos comes from The Work From The People, we have a subscription to their catalogue and have made a number of the films available with discussion/reflection material for people to use in their faith formation. Please do not distribute the films beyond the GUC community, or upload to youtube or facebook.
Welcome to this film series with Walter Brueggemann discussing thoughts from his new book, Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World. Materiality as Resistance is a textured teaching about who we are called to be in the world through the lens of loving God, loving ourselves, and loving our neighbor. Walter discusses faith and our responsibility to one another, and how churches can model collaborative social structure, and goes so far as to invite individual believers and church leadership to start considering making decisions with the neighbor and neighborhood in mind.
Moral Action, Life, Justice, Faith, Action, Peace, Neighbour, Ethics, Scripture, Discipleship
The Series includes a discernment and discussion guide. If you would like access to this video series and the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright for the link and password for the videos.
Series Sessions:
Session 01 – Materiality
Session 02 – Money
Session 03 – Food
Session 04 – The Body
Session 05 – Time
Session 06 – Place
Session 07 – Change the Conversation
Included bonus visual liturgy film // Psalm 115
This series of videos comes from The Work From The People, we have a subscription to their catalogue and have made a number of the films available with discussion/reflection material for people to use in their faith formation. Please do not distribute the films beyond the GUC community, or upload to youtube or facebook.
Bible, Questions, Story, Reading Scripture, Faith
What if the Bible is fine just the way it is? Not a well behaved Bible, where everything lines up and makes sense, but the messy, troubling, and weird Bible we actually have? What if the Bible doesn’t need to be protected and defended, but understood–just as it is? What if the real problem isn’t the Bible but the false expectations we sometimes bring to it? Perhaps, when we let the Bible be the Bible rather than what we expect it ought to be–or need it to be–we will find a deeper faith in the process.
The curriculum, written by Andrew Hill, includes 7 sessions with an accompanying discussion guide. If you would like access to this video series and the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright for the link and password for the videos.
Session 01 – I’ll Take Door Number Two
Session 02 – God Did What?!
Session 03 – God Likes Stories
Session 04 – Why Doesn’t God Make Up His Mind?
Session 05 – Jesus Is Bigger Than The Bible
Session 06 – No One Saw This Coming
Session 07 – The Bible, Just As It Is
This week’s scripture reflection is from the gospel according to John.
What would you ask Jesus if he appeared to you?