What if changing our perception of God has the potential to change everything? God is not what you think. Visions of an angry, distant, moral scorekeeper or a supernatural Santa Claus handing out cosmic lottery tickets to those who attend the right church or say the right prayer dominate our culture. For many others, God has become irrelevant or simply unbelievable. In The Divine Dance, Richard Rohr points readers to an unlikely opening beyond this divinity impasse: the at–times forgotten, ancient mystery of the Trinity?God as utterly one, yet three.

In The Divine Dance (and some of the TWOTP films below) Rohr presents a compelling alternative to aloof and fairytale versions of God: One God, belovedly in communion, as All–Vulnerable, All–Embracing, and All–Given to you and me.

The series includes 15 sessions with a discussion guide, written by Kelly Ann Hall.

SESSION TITLES AND FILMS

1. SESSION ONE // God has to be Three
2. SESSION TWO // Participatory Identity
3. SESSION THREE / Trinitarian Love
4. SESSION FOUR // Sitting Inside the Divine Dance
5. SESSION FIVE // The Momentary Satisfaction of Inerrancy
6. SESSION SIX // Praying Always
7. SESSION SEVEN // Power is Powerlessness
8. SESSION EIGHT // Re-Spect
9. SESSION NINE // Trinitarian Spirituality
10. SESSION TEN // The Divine Flow and Resurrection
11. SESSION ELEVEN // Living in God
12. SESSION TWELVE // The Dynamic of Salvation
13. SESSION THIRTEEN // Undoing the Good News
14. SESSION FOURTEEN// The Self-Limiting God
15. SESSION FIFTEEN // A Transformed Cross

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.

https://vimeo.com/387929486

Series Description:

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.

Themes:

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.

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.

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 Titles:

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.

Description:

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.

Series Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/407618547

Themes:

Moral Action, Life, Justice, Faith, Action, Peace, Neighbour, Ethics, Scripture, Discipleship

Discussion Guide:

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.

Purchase Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World by Walter Brueggemann .

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

A Seven Part Series on The Bible

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.

Themes:

Bible, Questions, Story, Reading Scripture, Faith

Series Description:

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 Titles:

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

Series Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/393921794

This series of videos comes from The Work From The People, we have a subscription to their catalogue and have made a number available with discussion/reflection material for people to explore at home, alone, with a partner, spouse, friend or with a larger group of people.  Please do not distribute the films beyond the GUC community, or upload to youtube or facebook.

The following films contain conversations inspired by Diana Butler-Bass’ book Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks. In her book, Diana not only offers us an opportunity for a personal and systemic transformation, but welcomes us into her own personal journey with gratitude. These films are not necessarily arranged in the same order of the book, but are a reflection of how I naturally progressed through my own growth with the series. My hope and prayer is that these films lead you to to a deeper truth in your spiritual growth and inspire you to move outward into the world with the kind of generosity and gratitude that defies systems of scarcity and brings healing to the world.

Themes: Gratitude, Faith Practices, Prayer, Hospitality, Food, Communion, God, Community, abundance, scarcity, God’s Table, Grace, Gifts, Transformation, Hope

Book:

The series follows the release of Diana’s book titled “Grateful.” Darren Wright has a copy of the book if anyone would like to borrow it.

Diana has also included a number of resources for people who are reading “Grateful” including podcasts, sermons, videos reader guides and a small group guide.

Discussion guide:

Series discussion guide includes: discernment questions, a few prayer practices for nurturing “a grateful life,” along with video transcripts. Captions included with streaming version of the films.

For a copy of the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright

Session Titles (click link to access):

The videos are password protected, as per the distributor’s request, for access to the password please ask Darren Wright.

01 – Where Is God?

02 – A Table of Gifts

03 – Table Ethics

04 – Grace, Gratitude & Gifts

05 – Gratitude & Abundance

06 – Table Memory

Jesus the Ingrate:
The Subversive Power of Gratitude

Here’s another video of Diana Butler Bass speaking on the practice of Gratitude, perhaps this video may wet your appetite.